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A huge wildfire raging in the Canadian province of Alberta is growing further and could spill in to neighbouring Saskatchewan, officials say. Hot, dry and windy conditions are hampering efforts by hundreds of firefighters to tackle the blaze. The flames have already caused the evacuation of 80,000 people from the oil city of Fort McMurray. Thousands are still stuck north ...

Sadiq Khan, a practicing Muslim and Labour Party politician, has been elected mayor of London, marking a political milestone in the Western world. Londoners voted in Khan, 45, as the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital city. He will take office in a metropolis where his fellow Muslims comprise about 12% of the population. His victory followed an ...

The only land convoy evacuating people trapped by a huge wildfire in the Canadian state of Alberta has been suspended after 200ft (60m) flames flanked the road, officials say. The convoy was made up of hundreds of people who fled their homes in Fort McMurray for oil worker camps north of the city. The fire is expected to double in ...

North Korea is holding its most important political event in decades, where leader Kim Jong-un will cement his status and set out his vision. Thousands of delegates are meeting for a choreographed show of support being seen as an unofficial coronation. The BBC’s Stephen Evans in Pyongyang says Kim Jong-un is inside the hall, with guards lined up outside the ...

Brazil’s beleaguered President Dilma Rousseff has told the BBC she is an “innocent victim” and she will fight on as possible impeachment looms. She vowed to “keep fighting… to come back to government if the impeachment request is accepted”. Ms Rousseff is accused of manipulating government accounts, which she denies. The Senate will decide whether to start an impeachment trial ...

Top Republicans are divided on whether to support Donald Trump after the businessman all but secured the party’s presidential nomination. Some took to social media to disavow their membership in the party by burning their voter registration forms. Others, though, started to fall in line behind the candidate, saying Mr Trump is vastly preferable to Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic ...

Donald Trump has become the US Republican presidential nominee in all but name after victory in Indiana forced rival Ted Cruz from the race. Mr Trump, unpopular with many in his own party, now has a clear path to the 1,237 delegates needed to claim his party’s crown. That would mark a stunning victory for a businessman few took seriously ...

Russia’s foreign minister says a unilateral truce declared by the Syrian military could be extended to the city of Aleppo “in the next few hours”. Sergei Lavrov said Russia was working with the UN and US to include Aleppo in the “regime of calm” that has covered Damascus and Latakia since Saturday. But Mr Lavrov warned that rebels would have ...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has accused China of “raping” the US, in renewed criticism of China’s trade policy. He told a rally in Indiana that China was responsible for “the greatest theft in the history of the world”. Mr Trump, a billionaire businessman, has long accused China of manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive globally. This, ...

An American cruise ship is sailing to Cuba from the US, the first such trip in more than 50 years. The Adoni has sailed from the port of Miami carrying some 700 passengers. It is due to arrive in Havana on Monday. Cuba and the US restored diplomatic relations last year. But several Cold War-era restrictions on travelling and trading ...