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Shoppers in Brazil found they had unwittingly bought cocaine when they opened soap powder they had purchased at a supermarket in Sao Paulo. At least 80kg of the drug was found in the store, police said. Detectives believe the shop, where the soap powder was bought on Monday, is involved

The German captain of a ship rescuing migrants said she disobeyed orders not to dock in Italy because she feared those on board would kill themselves. Sea-Watch-3 captain Carola Rackete apologised to the crew of a patrol boat her vessel trapped against a quayside. She denied Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's accusation that

A Jamaican-born man was arrested and charged by the Suffolk Country police in the United States for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl recently. The accused, 33-year-old Ricardo Gurdon of Long Island, USA, was charged with first-degree rape and first-degree criminal sex act. Gurdon is a naturalised US citizen from Jamaica, who has

Two suicide blasts have rocked the capital of Tunisia, killing at least one police officer and wounding several people. The first explosion on Thursday involved a suicide bomber who targeted a police patrol. One police officer was killed, while another was wounded, according to the interior ministry. Three civilians were

The government of Barbados has abolished visa requirements for passport holders of several countries, in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Gulf States Region. The countries benefiting from this immediate Visa Waiver Agreement are; Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal. Those from the Gulf States

A heatwave affecting much of Europe is expected to intensify further with countries - including France, Spain, and Switzerland - expecting temperatures above 40C (104F) later on Thursday. On Wednesday Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic recorded their highest-ever temperatures for June. Meteorologists say hot air drawn in from northern

Police have seized cocaine from a Brazilian air force officer who was due to accompany President Jair Bolsonaro home from the G20 summit in Japan. Officers arrested the man on Tuesday in Seville after allegedly discovering 39kg of cocaine in his luggage. The man had been assigned with accompanying President

A 21-year-old student has been killed by three sharks while on holiday in the Bahamas with her family. Jordan Lindsey was snorkeling at the time and reportedly couldn't hear warnings from her parents while she was in the water. It's thought her right arm was ripped off and she was

An asylum seeker and journalist detained for years by Australia on an island in the Pacific has been awarded the country's richest literary prize. Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian Kurd, wrote No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by text message from inside a detention centre. It won the 2019 Victorian

Saudi Arabia has ended an anti-corruption drive launched in November 2017 that saw senior princes, ministers and prominent businessmen rounded up. The Royal Court said a committee led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had recovered $107bn (£81bn) in settlements including property, companies and cash. A total of 381 individuals were summoned