INTERNATIONAL

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been declared husband and wife, following a ceremony at Windsor Castle. The couple exchanged vows and rings before the Queen and 600 guests at St George’s Chapel. Wearing a dress by British designer Clare Waight Keller, Ms Markle was met by Prince Charles, who walked her down the aisle. Following their marriage, the couple ...

Between eight and 10 people have been killed in a shooting at a Texas high school, say police. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters the majority of the dead at Santa Fe High School were students. A student was held after the attack. Police said explosive devices were found at the school, 40 miles (65km) south of Houston, and ...

The UN human rights chief says Israel used “wholly disproportionate” force against Palestinian border protests which have left over 100 people dead. Zeid Raad Al Hussein told a meeting in Geneva that Gazans were effectively “caged in a toxic slum” and Gaza’s occupation by Israel had to end. Israel’s ambassador said Gaza’s militant Islamist rulers had deliberately put people in ...

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread from the countryside into a city, prompting fears that the disease will be increasingly difficult to control. Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga confirmed a case in Mbandaka, a city of a million people about 130km (80 miles) from the area where the first cases were confirmed earlier this month. The city is a ...

Suicide bombers have attacked three churches in Indonesia’s second-largest city Surabaya, killing at least nine people, police say. Around 40 others were injured in the attacks, which occurred within minutes of each other. No group has so far said it carried them out. TV pictures showed debris scattered around the entrance of one church. Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority country, ...

The suspect in a deadly knife attack in central Paris on Saturday evening was born in 1997 in the Russian republic of Chechnya, a judicial source says. The attacker killed a 29-year-old man and wounded four other people in the busy Opéra district before being shot dead by police. The suspect had shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest), witnesses said. ...

The Constitutional Court has reserved ruling in President Edgar Lungu’s Eligibility case to a date to be announced. In this matter, four political parties namely Christian democratic party, Zambia republican party, new congress party and citizens democratic party are seeking the court’s interpretation of the constitution with regards President Edgar Lungu’s eligibility to stand in the 2021 elections. When the ...

President Donald Trump is to reveal whether the US will abandon the nuclear deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions. Mr Trump has been highly critical of the 2015 accord, under which Iran limited its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. The White House has signalled that the president might stop short of reneging completely on the deal, but it ...

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has resigned following allegations of assault by four women. The resignation came after the New Yorker magazine published a report quoting the women who accused Mr Schneiderman, 63, of hitting them. Two identified themselves as former girlfriends of his. Mr Schneiderman – who contests the allegations – has been a vocal supporter of the ...

A 17-year-old girl in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand is in a critical condition after she was raped and then set on fire, police say. A local man has been arrested in connection with the attack. It is the second such incident to be reported in Jharkhand in recent days – another teenage girl who police say was raped ...