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Britain has voted to break out of the European Union, national media declared today, striking a thunderous blow against the bloc and spreading alarm through markets as sterling plummeted to a 31-year low against the dollar.

Protesters will take to the streets of Paris once again today after France's embattled Socialist government abandoned a bid to ban their march over security worries.

Millions of people across Britain vote today in a bitterly fought, knife-edge referendum that could tear up the island nation's EU membership and spark the greatest emergency of the bloc's 60-year history.

Amid economic woes, political crisis and a Zika outbreak, Brazil's health minister yesterday announced yet another concern -- a resurgence of swine flu that has killed more than 1,000 people since the start of the year.

In one of the most extraordinary scenes in years on the US House floor, Democrats staged a dramatic sit-in yesterday, demanding that the Republican-led Congress address gun violence following the Orlando nightclub massacre.

North Korea conducted two back-to-back tests of a powerful new medium-range missile on Wednesday, with both achieving a significant increase in flight distance over previous failed launches, South Korea's Defence Ministry has said.

The death toll from landslides and floods in an earthquake-battered region of southern Japan has risen to six, an official said today, with all missing now accounted for.

A jaguar trotted out for the Olympic torch's passage through Brazil's Amazon was killed shortly afterward when it escaped its handlers and threatened a vet, the Brazilian military said Tuesday.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday urged the international community to live up to its "moral and political obligation" to aid Iraqi civilians who fled an operation against the Islamic State group in Fallujah.

Rival sides in Britain's referendum on European Union membership have clashed in a passionate debate to the roars of an audience of six thousand in a London concert arena.

The planet's coral reefs are likely facing warmer than normal water for an unprecedented third year in a row, extending what is already the longest coral bleaching event on record, US observers have said.

Rival camps vied to seize momentum on Monday for the final stretch before Britain's referendum on European Union membership, after the shock killing of a lawmaker halted the campaign.

ROME — Virginia Raggi has been elected as Rome's first female mayor in a triumph for the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) that represents a stinging setback for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Thousands of demonstrators are hoping to make their voices heard next month during the Republican and Democratic party conventions.

A suicide bomber hit a minibus carrying foreign security guards and caused several casualties early on Monday in Kabul along the main road to the eastern city of Jalalabad, police said.

Fifty people died and another 53 were injured early yesterday when a heavily-armed gunman opened fire and seized hostages at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, police said, in the worst mass shooting in US history.

A gunman killed at least 20 people and injured 42 others in a crowded gay nightclub in Florida early yesterday before police shot him dead in what US authorities described as a "terrorism incident".