Iran has announced it will break a limit set on uranium enrichment, in breach of the landmark 2015 deal designed to curb its nuclear ambitions. Deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said Iran still wanted to salvage the deal but blamed European countries for failing to live up to their

A group of 41 rescued migrants have disembarked from a charity ship in Italy, a day after the captain defied a ban on docking in the country. Despite warnings, the Alex sailed to the port on Saturday because of "intolerable hygienic conditions" aboard. The migrants have now all come

The 14 Russian seamen who died in a fire on one of the navy's research submersibles earlier this week were laid to rest in St. Petersburg on Saturday. The sailors were killed in the blaze on the unnamed submarine in the Barents Sea on Monday. Officials withheld details of the

The UK is going through a "political nervous breakdown", a former intelligence chief has told the BBC. Sir John Sawers said the UK could have a prime minister who does "not have the standing that we have become used to in our top leadership" - a criticism of the two Tory leadership

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has banned the wearing of the niqab, which covers the entire face apart from the eyes, in government offices, citing security reasons. The order comes after three suicide bombings in the capital, Tunis, in the space of a week. One rights group

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has rattled a desert area of Southern California, US meteorologists say, in the biggest tremor to strike in two decades. It struck at the shallow depth of 0.9km (0.6 miles) and its epicentre was near the city of Ridgecrest, about 240km north-east of Los

The Trump administration will continue to pursue a way of adding a citizenship question to the census, lawyers said in court filings submitted on Friday. But administration lawyers failed to provide any legal justification for the census question by a court deadline. The Supreme

An Iranian official has said a British oil tanker should be seized, if a detained Iranian ship is not released. British Royal Marines helped officials in Gibraltar to seize the super-tanker Grace 1 on Thursday, after it was suspected of carrying oil from Iran to Syria, in breach of EU

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Southern California this morning. The earthquake was centered near Ridgecrest, California, a community west of the Mojave Desert and about 150 miles north of Los Angeles.  It was felt in both Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It was the worst in decades.

US President Donald Trump has hailed the "brave men and women" of the US military during a speech at a controversial Independence Day event. "We celebrate our history, our people, and the heroes who proudly defend our flag," he told a crowd at a rain-soaked Lincoln Memorial in

More than 80 people trying to reach Europe from Libya are feared dead after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia, according to the UN migration agency. The boat sank on Wednesday off the port town of Zarzis and 82 of the migrants who had been onboard were missing, the

Australian Alek Sigley who went missing in North Korea last week has been "released and safe", Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said. It comes after a meeting between officials from the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang and the North Korean government. Australia does not have

Royal Marines have boarded an oil tanker on its way to Syria thought to be breaching EU sanctions, the government of Gibraltar has said. Authorities said there was reason to believe the ship, called the Grace 1, was carrying crude oil to the Banias Refinery in Syria. The refinery is

North Korea has accused the US of being "hell-bent on hostile acts", despite a recent agreement between the two countries to resume nuclear talks. Pyongyang's delegation to the United Nations said on Wednesday that the US was "obsessed with sanctions". This comes days after the

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday China must respect the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong and that she had been in touch with China’s government to raise concerns about the situation in the former British colony. “It is vital that Hong Kong’s high

China has warned the UK not to "interfere in its domestic affairs" amid a growing diplomatic row over the recent protests in Hong Kong. Its UK ambassador said relations had been "damaged" by comments by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt and others backing the demonstrators' actions.

Sri Lanka’s police chief and former defense secretary were remanded in custody on Wednesday over allegations that they failed to prevent the Easter Day bomb attacks that killed more than 250 people, a police spokesman said. Colombo magistrates’ court will hear the case on Tuesday,

The German captain of a rescue charity ship who provoked the anger of Italy’s interior minister by bringing 41 African migrants to an Italian island has received threats and been moved to a secret location, according to the charity she works for. An Italian judge on Tuesday ordered

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (July 3) said it was "an honour to serve the Congress party" in a letter he tweeted hours after declaring that he was no longer the party president.  The designation of "President" also vanished from his Twitter bio, which now says "Member of Congress and

The Dalai Lama is walking back some controversial comments he made about women in a recent interview. The 83-year-old Buddhist monk from Tibet, who has been in and out of the hospital recently, doubled down on a sexist comment he made in 2015. His Holiness told the BBC: "If a female