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Barcelona stormed into the Champions League quarter-finals with a thumping 7-2 victory over Newcastle United at Camp Nou on Wednesday, sealing an emphatic 8-3 aggregate triumph in a compelling round-of-16 ...

Iran executed a Swedish citizen on Wednesday, Sweden’s foreign minister said, adding that she had summoned the Iranian ambassador in Stockholm to condemn the decision. The person, who was ...

Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed four ballistic missiles that were launched toward Riyadh on Wednesday, the Defence Ministry said, just ahead of a meeting of regional and Islamic foreign ministers ...

Slovakia’s government on Wednesday approved a resolution allowing service stations to set higher diesel prices for cars with foreign plates as it clamps down on “fuel tourism” amid a ...

Britain said it was working to provide more support for its partners in the Gulf who are under attack from Iran, as it announced plans to buy extra missiles to ...

Iceland’s Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir told Reuters on Wednesday she is optimistic her country could join the European Union as early as 2028, adding she expects fisheries and agriculture ...

Thousands of Turks gathered in central Istanbul on Wednesday in support of jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu at an opposition rally, one year after President Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival was ...

Iran’s government has been degraded since the war began on February 28, but it appears to be intact and Tehran and its proxies remain capable of attacking U.S. and ...

Senegal’s government on Wednesday called for an international investigation into what it said was suspected corruption within the Confederation of African Football (CAF) after the country was stripped of ...

Israel has more than doubled the number of troops along its border with Lebanon since March 1 and they are searching homes in southern Lebanese villages that the military has ordered ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan said they were pausing their military operations against each other on Wednesday for the Islamic festival of Eid-al-Fitr, a surprise move two days after a drug rehab ...

Chelsea’s Champions League exit on Tuesday after a thumping 8-2 aggregate defeat by Paris St Germain means the big-spending Londoners and their U.S. owners are once again trying ...

A powerful software exploit capable of penetrating and stealing information from potentially hundreds of millions of Apple iPhones was planted on dozens of websites in Ukraine in recent weeks, researchers ...

Iran’s huge Pars gas field was hit on Wednesday, a major escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war, prompting Tehran to announce it would respond with attacks on oil ...

Former British lawmaker Crispin Blunt has been charged with drugs offences, prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday. Blunt was a member of parliament for the Conservative Party, currently the ...

Greek shipowners and other companies are scanning their computer systems for evidence of cyberattacks after advice from the National Cybersecurity Authority, two sources said on Wednesday following incidents that have ...

Liverpool manager Arne Slot is confident fans will support his side when they attempt to overturn a 1-0 deficit against Galatasaray in Wednesday’s Champions League clash, despite their frustrations ...

FIFA announced an agreement Tuesday making YouTube a “preferred platform” for this summer’s World Cup. The deal allows rights-holding broadcast partners to stream the first 10 minutes of every match ...

Five new cases of meningitis have been found in Kent in southeast England, Britain said on Wednesday, taking the total to 20 in what has been called an “unprecedented” outbreak that ...

Israel’s military on Wednesday acknowledged that its tank fire hit a U.N. position in southern Lebanon on March 6, wounding Ghanaian peacekeepers, an incident that underscores the growing risks ...

Morocco were declared Africa Cup of Nations champions and Senegal were stripped of the title after an appeal over the result of the final was upheld by the Confederation of ...

Israeli warplanes hit central Beirut in the early hours of Wednesday, destroying apartment buildings in some of the most intense airstrikes on the centre of the Lebanese capital for decades, ...

Global hedge funds sold shares of bank, insurance, fin-tech and trading companies in ​the week to March 13, making financials the most sold stock ‌sector this year, said Goldman Sachs (GS....

Britain will invest an additional 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) to ‌unlock jobs for young people, the government said this week, part of a drive to reduce the nearly 1 million 16- to 24...