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Calin Georgescu, the fringe nationalist politician leading the presidential race in Romania, has told the BBC that he would end all support for Ukraine if elected. He is facing a second-round run-off in the elections on Sunday, where he will run against Elena Lasconi, a former TV presenter who is campaigning on a firmly pro-EU…

The number of people who have been reported missing in the violence-wracked Mexican state of Sinaloa has doubled since two rival factions of a drugs cartel started a bloody battle for control of their criminal organisation. According to official figures, more than 200 people have disappeared since the two factions of the Sinaloa cartel declared…

Tim P. Whitby / Stringer/Getty Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo attend the Wicked premiere in London A South Carolina mother is suing toy company Mattel after it mistakenly printed the address of a pornographic website on the packaging of a doll. The company released the singing dolls last month ahead of release of the film…

A parliamentary session in the Bahamas has been dramatically suspended after an opposition MP threw a ceremonial mace out a window. Shanendon Cartwright, the deputy leader of the opposition, was restrained by police and officials following the incident. During the scuffle the deputy speaker was struck and taken to hospital, while a police officer suffered…

Getty Images An estimated 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes of debris from the Francis Scott Key Bridge blocked the Patapsco’s shipping channel and pinned down the M/V Dali for months In the dark, early morning hours of 26 March, US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg’s phone rang – and he immediately knew he had a problem. “If…

A Kenyan court has convicted a photographer for the murder of LGBT activist Edwin Kiprotich Kipruto, popularly known as Edwin Chiloba, whose body was found dumped in a metal box nearly two years ago. The court in the western city of Eldoret ruled that the prosecution had proved that Jacktone Odhiambo, who was living with…

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing mounting pressure to resign over his failed attempt to impose martial law, as parliament moves closer to a vote on his impeachment. The capital Seoul has seen a second day of street protests demanding Yoon’s resignation while police said he was being investigated for “insurrection”. The opposition…

France’s Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to tender his resignation today, hours after being ousted in a no-confidence vote. Barnier’s government collapsed after MPs voted overwhelmingly in support of the motion against him, just three months after he was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron. Barnier is likely to stay on as caretaker prime minister…

France’s political crisis is worse than normal political crises. Normally when a democratic country passes through turbulence, there is some prospect of the turbulence coming to an end. Not today in Paris. If anything, the downfall of Michel Barnier – toppled in parliament by a no-confidence motion – threatens to set a pattern for what…

EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Police have offered a $10,000 (£7,800) reward for information leading to the suspect. New York City police officers are using facial recognition technology and a discarded cell phone to identify the man who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson Wednesday morning. Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in the back just before 07:00…