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The chairman of the UK’s inquiry into the Iraq war says he hopes future military action on such a scale will only be possible with more careful analysis and political judgement. His 12-volume report on the Iraq War is due to be released later – more than seven years after the inquiry began. Sir John Chilcot told the BBC it ...

The FBI has announced it will not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton over her use of private email while she was secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey said “no reasonable prosecutor” would pursue a case but said the likely Democratic presidential nominee was “extremely careless” with classified information. The decision ends the legal uncertainty that has dogged the ...

US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton says a tweet from rival Donald Trump featuring a six-pointed star was “blatantly anti-Semitic”. The tweet included a shape resembling the Star of David and stacks of money, with text describing Mrs Clinton as “Most corrupt candidate ever!” It was later deleted then reposted with the slogan contained in a circle. Mr Trump said ...

The US space agency has successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter. The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had to fire a rocket engine to slow its approach to the planet and get caught by its gravity. A sequence of tones transmitted from the spacecraft confirmed the braking manoeuvre had gone as planned. Receipt of ...

The number of people killed in Sunday’s suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has risen to 165, interior ministry officials say. The government has declared three days of mourning after the huge blast, which also injured 225 people. A lorry packed with explosives was detonated in the Karrada district while families were shopping for the holiday marking the ...

A suspected suicide bomber has died after detonating a device near the US consulate in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, the interior ministry says. Two security officers were slightly injured as they tackled the man, but no one else was hurt. The attack came in the early hours of US Independence Day and shortly before dawn prayers marking the ...

The Iraqi government has declared three days of national mourning after a huge bomb in the capital Baghdad killed at least 125 people and wounded about 150. A lorry packed with explosives was detonated in the Karrada district while families were shopping for the holiday marking the end of Ramadan. Rescuers said whole families had been wiped out and many ...

At least 55 people have been killed in northern Pakistan and India in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains. Floods in the Chitral district of Pakistan damaged houses and a mosque killing at least 30, officials said. Another 25 are now known to have died in floods and landslides in India’s Uttarakhand and Arunachal Pradesh states in ...

At least 125 people have been killed and about 150 injured in an explosion claimed by the Islamic State group in Baghdad, Iraqi police say. A car bomb exploded on a busy street in the central district of Karrada late on Saturday. The mainly Shia area was busy with shoppers late at night because it is the holy month of ...

At least 75 people have been killed and some 100 injured in two bombings carried out by so-called Islamic State in Baghdad, officials say. In the first attack late on Saturday, a suicide car bomb exploded near a restaurant and shopping area in the central district of Karrada. The street was busy with shoppers after sundown in the holy month ...