As costs of running local government elections soar, one south-west council is grappling with a bill that has ballooned by 90 per cent.

The Palestinian territory is gripped by dire humanitarian conditions created by 21 months of war and made worse by Israel's total blockade of aid from March to May.

The decline in the size of the U.S. labor force was a key reason the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% from 4.2%. Unemployment ...

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