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A separatist group says it has formally submitted more than 300,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province of Alberta leaving Canada.

In a resounding victory Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist Hindu party has wrested control of the key state of West Bengal.

Two people were killed after a car ploughed into a crowd in the eastern German city of Leipzig on Monday afternoon.

Twenty-one people are dead and 61 have been injured after an explosion at a fireworks factory in China.

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Police in Spain have made what they have said is a "record-breaking cocaine seizure in the Atlantic", as part of an ongoing crackdown on international drug trafficking.

Troops from the Royal Regiment of Scotland have been taking part in urban combat drills as they prepare to deploy to the Baltic states for a major NATO exercise.

The UK is on the verge of joining the EU's €90bn (£78bn) loan scheme for Ukraine, as the government seeks to shore up support for Kyiv and deepen defence ties with the bloc.

A man has been charged with murdering a five-year-old girl in central Australia, days after her killing sparked a riot.

A man has been arrested in Austria after rat poison was found in some baby food jars on supermarket shelves in central Europe.