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A Russian court has sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on drug charges.

US President Donald Trump is expected to issue more than 100 pardons and commutations on his last full day in office - but Julian Assange is not expected to get one of them.

Hamas has vowed it will not release the hostages seized during its 7 October attack on Israel until the Gaza war ends.

A gunman accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 has been found guilty by a jury in the US state of Pennsylvania.

Top US diplomat Antony Blinken said he was "committed" to working with Congress to respond to the court.

The move comes amid ongoing protests against the Israel-Gaza war which have erupted at dozens of US campuses.

Republican Kevin McCarthy has now picked up the support of most of the hardliners who had opposed his bid to be speaker, but fell short of clinching victory in the 13th ballot in four days again.

Taliban insurgents tighten their grip on Afghanistan, wresting control of its second and third biggest cities while Western embassies prepared to send in troops to help evacuate staff from the…

Sean 'Diddy' Combs, charged with racketeering conpsiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, will go to trial next year.

National Party leader Christopher Luxon believes Covid-19 is no excuse for low attendance rates in schools.

Condolences and tributes pour in from all sides of the political spectrum.

Hundreds of protesters in Philadelphia have marched through the city for a second night, demanding racial justice after police fatally shot a black man.

Six simultaneous blazes that have ripped across Los Angeles County neighbourhoods since Tuesday have killed at least 16 people as of late Saturday local time.

The chief prosecutor of the world's top war crimes court is seeking arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas.

The violent attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's husband comes with just over a week to go before the US midterm elections - a moment when political tensions are coming to the boil.

Mourners began paying their respects to Jimmy Carter, as a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for America's longest-lived president got underway.

Sources told Reuters a ceasefire deal could be days away that would stop the fighting and free hostages held by Hamas in return for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

The policies of both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris could have far-reaching consequences for a small, trade-dependent nation. Audio

The remarks comes just days after a would-be assassin's bullet grazed Donald Trump's ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump has testified that she did not recall details of real-estate deals she worked on at her father's company.

Australia has joined the United States and Europe in restricting travel from Africa over the new Omicron Covid-19 variant.

Analysis - Donald Trump will flex one of the most intense demonstrations of presidential power, seeking to change America's course by sundown.

Hamas said it had handed over 13 Israeli hostages, three Thai nationals and a person with Russian citizenship who had been held in the Gaza Strip to the Red Cross on the third day of a truce.

Analysis - At the heart of the election and the polls is generations of social and economic change that has left too many people behind, writes Tim Watkin.

Bob Dole, who overcame grievous World War Two combat wounds to become a pre-eminent figure in US politics as a longtime Republican senator from Kansas and his party's unsuccessful 1996 presidential…