World News Update, what you need to know

World News Update, what you need to know

Negotiations between world powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear ambitions have been thrown into uncertainty after US Secretary of State John Kerry announced his imminent departure and Iran's chief negotiator expressed doubts a deal would be reached.

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RIGA - Latvia's president has demanded that a supermarket cave-in that killed at least 53 people be treated as murder, while rescuers and investigators combed the ruins for bodies or clues.

LONDON - A man and a woman suspected of holding three women in a London house for 30 years in Britain's worst case of modern-day slavery, are of Indian and Tanzanian origin, police say.

MOSCOW - The Kremlin says 30 Greenpeace crew members held after a protest in Arctic waters could be allowed to leave Russia, but the international activist group greeted the statement warily.

ANKARA - Turkey has declared Egypt's ambassador "persona non grata" and downgraded diplomatic relations to the level of charge d'affaires, in a tit-for-tat move after Cairo expelled its envoy.

BEIRUT - Two government airstrikes have killed at least 29 people in the north, Syrian activists say.


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