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The governor of North Carolina has declared a state of emergency in the city of Charlotte, sending in the National Guard, as unrest over a police shooting continues. Violence erupted for a second night as protests over the killing of a black man spun out of control. One protester is in a critical condition after a “civilian on civilian” incident, ...

The US has said it holds Russia responsible for a deadly attack on an aid convoy near the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday. The White House has called it an “enormous humanitarian tragedy”. Meanwhile, US officials have told the BBC that two Russian war planes were responsible for the attack. Russia strongly denies involvement of its own or Syrian ...

The US government has expressed “outrage” over an attack on an aid convoy near the Syrian city of Aleppo that, a war monitor says, left 12 dead. The UN has confirmed that the convoy was hit near the town of Urm al-Kubra, without giving details. But activists say an air strike hit the trucks hours after the army declared a ...

New York bombings suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami is in custody after shooting a police officer in Linden, New Jersey, according to US media. Video footage showed the suspect on a stretcher, being loaded into an ambulance. Linden is south-west of the city of Elizabeth, where further devices were found late on Sunday. The 28-year-old Afghan-born US citizen had been named ...

The bomb detonated on Saturday in New York, and another device found nearby, were both shrapnel-filled pressure cookers – similar to the bombs used at the 2013 Boston marathon, reports say. Citing officials, separate reports said both had mobile phones and Christmas lights as makeshift detonators. The blast, in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, injured 29 people. The FBI said ...

A boat has capsized after hitting a bridge in the central Thai city of Ayutthaya, killing at least seven including a child, local media say. The two-deck boat was travelling the Chao Phraya river at 04:00 local time (21:00 GMT) when the crash happened. It is said to have been carrying more than 100 people, and the number of casualties ...

Militants have attacked an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir, killing at least 17 soldiers, the army says. Four of the attackers were killed, an army officer told the BBC. Carrying guns and grenades they stormed a base in Uri, close to the Line of Control with Pakistan in a pre-dawn ambush. The incident is the most deadly in the disputed ...

At least 29 people have been injured in an explosion in a crowded district of New York City. The cause of the blast late on Saturday in Chelsea remains unclear. Mayor Bill de Blasio described it as “intentional” but said that there were no known links to terror. The force of the blast blew out windows and could be heard ...

Johannesburg (CNN) Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been readmitted to a South African hospital after he started showing signs of infection after surgery he had earlier this month, his family said Saturday. The 84-year-old Nobel laureate had spent three weeks in a Cape Town hospital, from last month until Wednesday, to receive treatment for a recurring infection, and he had minor ...

The number of dead from last month’s earthquake in central Italy has risen to 297 after two more people died, the Italian civil defence service reports. One had been injured in Amatrice, the town which saw the heaviest loss of life, and the other in Arquata del Tronto, which was also badly damaged. The magnitude-6.2 quake struck at 03:36 (01:36 ...