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Ana Faguy BBC News, Washington DC Getty Images US President Donald Trump is expected to issue an executive order demanding the shutdown of the Department of Education – a long-held goal of conservatives. Since the Republican returned to the White…

President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak…

The world’s oldest Michelin-starred restaurant, Georges Blanc, has lost its third star, according to French media reports. Georges Blanc, the 82-year-old French chef in charge of the restaurant in south-east France, told the AFP news agency that they “weren’t expecting…

Kirsty Coventry was elected on Thursday as the 10th president of the International Olympic Committee, becoming the first woman and the first African to hold the most powerful role in sports. Ms. Coventry, 41, from Zimbabwe, was the only woman…

Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent Reuters Some in Kocani carried photos of loved ones who died in the blaze Thousands have gathered at cemeteries across North Macedonia for the funerals of dozens of people killed in a nightclub fire on Sunday.…

During a call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine this week, President Trump floated a highly unusual idea: The United States could take control of Ukrainian nuclear power plants. “The United States could be very helpful in running those plants…

At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry has said. Hours later Israel’s military said it intercepted three rockets which Hamas’s armed wing said it fired at Tel Aviv in…

President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the agency, according to two White House officials. The department cannot be closed without the approval of Congress, which created it. But…

Authorities in Turkey have arrested dozens of people for “provocative” social media posts, after detaining the mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday. Imamoglu was one of more than 100 people held on charges including corruption and aiding terrorist groups…

The U.S. government detained an Indian citizen who was studying and teaching at Georgetown University, and said he had been deemed “deportable” for violating the terms of his student visa. The academic, Badar Khan Suri, was detained at his home…