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An Indian actor has been arrested for tweeting against one of the judges hearing pleas against a ban on Muslim girls wearing hijabs in schools.

The scene was grim at Caritas Medical Centre last week.

Just outside the hospital's emergency room, dozens of hospital beds had been placed… Read more

The US has hit Russia with wide-ranging sanctions over what President Joe Biden called "the beginning of a Russian invasion of Ukraine".

"We've… Read more

Canada's Parliament has backed the government's decision to impose emergency powers to deal with weeks-long protest blockades against Covid… Read more

India's Uttar Pradesh state is voting for a new government - and a massive temple under construction in the holy city of Ayodhya is a key election… Read more

All Covid restrictions will end in England on Thursday and free mass testing will stop from 1 April.

The prime minister told MPs the legal duty… Read more

Oil prices are climbing on fears that the Ukraine-Russia crisis will disrupt supplies across the world.

The price of Brent crude, an international… Read more

This speech was Putin the angry; impatient and directly threatening. It felt like Russia's president was getting 20-odd years of hurt off his chest… Read more