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The death toll in the New York city of Buffalo has risen to 28, with thousands still without power amid a monster winter storm that has battered North America.

The leader of a foiled plot by members of right-wing militia groups to kidnap the Michigan Governor was sentenced to 16 years in prison, prosecutors say.

Taiwan is expected to announce a plan to extend compulsory military service to one year from the current four months.

A seventh person has been confirmed dead after a bus plunged from a bridge into a river in Spain on Christmas Eve.

Philippine authorities say at least eight people have died after floods and heavy rains, as Christmas celebrations were disrupted for thousands forced to evacuate.

China will stop requiring inbound travellers to go into quarantine starting from 8 January, the National Health Commission says.

Analysis - The Wagner Group has been called everything from 'Putin's ghost army' to 'hired killers', John Lyons writes.

At least 34 people have died in the US as a severe Arctic freeze continues to grip much of North America.

The man accused of a deadly attack against the Kurdish community in Paris has admitted to a "pathological" hatred of migrants, French prosecutors say.

Similar checks have been done by European countries, the United States and Canada.

Donald Trump paid no income tax during the final full year of his presidency, according to tax figures released by a congressional panel.

British health sector bosses are warning the government of the risk to patient safety from a wave of industrial action as ambulance workers prepare to walk out and nurses threaten further strikes in a…

The Ukrainian President has made an unannounced visit to the front-line city of Bakhmut, where Ukrainian and Russian forces have fought a fierce, months-long battle.

The the independent Syrian Network for Human Rights group says the documents provided answers to the fates of hundreds of missing people.

Election observer MP Todd McClay says he believes Fiji's election was fair and that the country must now democratically decide the composition of the next government. Audio

Two people are injured as the Berlin aquarium, containing a million litres of water, bursts open.

A landslide has killed at least 21 people, including children, while they slept in their tents at an unlicensed campsite in Malaysia.