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Peruvian authorities have closed the iconic tourist attraction Machu Picchu amid ongoing protests that have left dozens of people dead since they began a month ago. Demonstrations have spread through the Andean nation since early December, with new clashes reported in Cusco, the gateway to the nearby Inca trail and ancient ruins of Machu Picchu.

Western nations have failed to agree on a deal to send much-wanted Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, despite holding a summit in Germany. The US and its allies had hoped to convince Berlin to allow the powerful battle tanks to be used by Kyiv to aid in Ukraine’s fightback against Russia. The UK has already

Olympic medal-winning Indian wrestlers have accused the chief of their sport’s governing body and its coaches of sexually harassing female athletes. Hundreds of wrestlers from across the country have joined protests in Delhi following the allegations, which have been levelled at Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, president of the Wrestling Federation of India. Mr Singh, a

A country that operates German-made Leopard tanks has asked for permission from Berlin to give the heavy armour to Ukraine, Britain’s defence secretary has revealed. Ben Wallace did not say which nation he was referring to but it is likely to be Poland, which has made clear it would like to send some of its

Elon Musk “lied” when he claimed he had “secured” funding to take Tesla private, a lawyer for investors has told a court. The company’s chief executive wrote in 2018 that he had “secured” funding to take the electric carmaker private and later that investor backing was “confirmed”, causing shares to fall and then to soar.

The Irish government has approved a repair scheme costing up to €2.5bn (£2.2bn) to fix fire safety and other defects in 100,000 apartments and duplexes built during Ireland’s Celtic Tiger boom era. Lax construction oversight during the economic boom of the mid-1990s to late-2000s led to homeowners being handed huge repair bills in recent years,

The world’s oldest person, French nun Sister Andre, has died at the aged of 118. Her retirement home confirmed the news on Tuesday, the Reuters news agency reported. Born Lucile Randon in 1904, a decade before the start of World War One, she took the name of Sister Andre when she joined a Catholic charitable

The co-pilot of Nepal’s fatal plane crash had lost her husband who was a pilot in another Yeti Airlines accident 16 years ago. Anju Khatiwada, 44, was the co-pilot on Sunday’s fatal flight from Kathmandu which crashed into a gorge in clear weather near Pokhara airport killing at least 70 people. Ms Khatiwada’s career in

The digital wing of Iran’s protest movement has surged in activity in response to recent executions in the country, as protests on the ground persist but in lower numbers than before. Iran’s cyber protesters have issued a resounding call for the world to recognise Iran’s notorious Revolutionary Guard as “terrorists”, with #IRGCterrorists posted more than

Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, has been arrested by police after 30 years on the run. Messina Denaro is alleged to be a boss of Sicily’s Cosa Nostra mafia and has been on the run since 1993. The 60-year-old was detained at a private hospital in the Sicilian capital Palermo. He had

A leading emergency medicine doctor has described Ireland’s overcrowded hospitals as life-threatening – as the head of the health service admitted it was “realistic” that people had died as a result of the crisis. This year’s winter surge of respiratory illnesses, combined with a shortage of acute hospital beds, has lead to hundreds of patients

A powerful gas pipeline explosion which sent flames 150ft into the sky in northern Lithuania was most likely caused by a technical malfunction, officials have said. The head of AB Amber Grid, which operates Lithuania’s natural gas transmission system, said one of the possible causes of Friday’s blast was “defects in the welding seam of

China has reported almost 60,000 COVID-related deaths since early December after the country dropped its strict lockdown restrictions. The announcement follows complaints that the Chinese government was failing to release data about the status of the pandemic. China dropped its strict zero COVID policy on 7 December, unleashing the virus on the nation’s 1.4 billion

Donald Trump proposed attacking North Korea with a nuclear weapon in meetings with aides and said that the US could blame the attack on another country, according to a book about his presidency. Mr Trump is said to have made the remarks in 2017, his first year in office, when he was especially belligerent in

Germany’s Garzweiler mine could hardly be more symbolic of the conundrum facing much of Europe right now. A country partially run by the Green Party is tearing down wind turbines to make way for more coal extraction. From an environmental point of view this is fairly obviously not good. Coal is the dirtiest of all

Australia men’s cricket team has pulled out of matches against Afghanistan over the Taliban’s restrictions on the freedoms of women and girls. The sides were due to play a series of three one-day international (ODI) matches in the UAE in March. But a statement released by Cricket Australia said it was “committed to supporting growing

All flights across the US were grounded due to a glitch with the Federal Aviation Administration’s computer system this morning. All outbound flights were grounded until around 9am Eastern Time (2pm GMT) as the Federal Aviation Administration worked to restore its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which alerts pilots of potential hazards along a

Riot police have entered a condemned village in Germany to remove protesters attempting to stop it from being demolished to make way for the expansion of a coal mine. Environmental activists are holed-up in Luetzerath trying to stop bulldozers from moving in to clear the way for miners to remove deposits of lignite found under

The magnificent stark white modernist buildings of Brazil’s capital were unveiled in the 1960s as a modern utopia and a symbol of optimism and trust in the future.  Its lustre is faded today. The Three Powers Plaza surrounded by Congress, the Supreme Court, and presidential palace is pockmarked from a day of rioting. It’s deadly

A container ship loaded with more than 65,000 tonnes of corn from Ukraine has been refloated after running aground in the Suez Canal. The M/V Glory was 24 miles (38km) into its southward journey through the Egyptian waterway, near the city of Qantara, when it suffered a technical fault, according to the Suez Canal Authority