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A tall building on the edge of Fangchuan has become a tourist attraction for the view it offers of North Korea Chinese tourists huddle together against the brisk autumn breeze on a 12-storey building, vying for the best spot to photograph the point where their country meets Russia and North Korea. The three national flags…

An armed group has taken control of a military facility near the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, the country’s military says, and is holding some soldiers captive. The army had started an operation to remove blockades around the country on Friday morning, local media reported, after weeks of clashes between supporters of former President Evo Morales…

It was the one time England have been on the high side of those small margins and a giddy Twickenham crowd drank deep, ratcheting up the decibels and washing away memories of ugly losses to France, Fiji and Scotland. If that same heady feeling is in the air come the business end on Saturday, it…

Watch first wave of flood water gushing through town in Valencia Emergency teams in Spain are continuing their efforts to locate dozens of people still missing in what is the worst flooding disaster in generations. More than 200 people are known to have died, with most fatalities happening in the Valencia region, but the death…

Oscar Piastri led Lando Norris to a McLaren one-two in sprint qualifying at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Norris’ title rival Max Verstappen could manage only fourth place in the Red Bull, behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. Verstappen, who has a five-place grid penalty for the main grand prix on Sunday, starts the weekend 47 points…

AFP Duma Boko won the presidency at his third attempt Confident and well-mannered, Botswana’s new President Duma Boko carries the traits of a highly trained human rights lawyer. The 54-year-old’s thoughtful, fluent sentences speak of his legal education first in Botswana and then at Harvard Law School in the US. And despite being humble in…

Moment Sara Sharif’s family are detained at Gatwick Airport Footage showing the moment police boarded a plane and detained Sara Sharif’s alleged killers as they arrived back in the UK has been shown to jurors. The three relatives of Sara had travelled to Pakistan on 9 August 2023, the day after she died at the…

Reuters Locals cleaning up debris amongst the mud left behind by flash-flooding in Alfafar, Valencia Spain has been coming to terms with devastating floods which have left more than 200 people dead and dozens missing this week. Thousands of emergency services staff and military personnel have been working on search and rescue operations in flood-hit…

Getty Images Rachel Reeves’ Budget is “very, very different” to the Liz Truss mini-Budget of two years ago, according to a senior government minister. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones’s comments were designed to reassure markets following a rise in the cost of government borrowing and a fall in the pound in the wake…