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Global heavyweights were pitted head-to-head and intriguing political storylines drawn as the schedule for the 2022 World Cup was completed at a glitzy ceremony in the Qatari capital on Friday. Four ...

A fuel depot was ablaze at one of Russia’s main logistics hubs for its Ukraine war effort on Friday, after what Moscow described as a cross-border air raid by ...

Valery Petrovich Sorokin, 66, didn’t want to leave his home outside of Kharkiv. He suffers from arthritis and struggles to move. But, a month into the war, as Russian bombs ...

Spain expects international tourist arrivals to reach 80% of pre-pandemic volumes in the second quarter as northern Europeans shrug off concerns over the Ukraine conflict and return en masse for Easter, ...

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said on Friday he expects discussions over the Premier League club’s sale to intensify over the coming weeks, but he was unsure if he should ...

President Joe Biden said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to be self-isolating in Russia and may have fired or put under house arrest some of his advisers. “...

The dollar extended a rebound versus major peers on Friday ahead of a key US jobs report that could help the Federal Reserve decide whether to make an interest rate ...

Dozens of valuable churches, historical sites and museums have been damaged by the war in Ukraine, the United Nations’ cultural agency said on Friday, adding that it was particularly worried ...

Scientists on Thursday published the first complete human genome, filling in gaps remaining after previous efforts while offering new promise in the search for clues regarding disease-causing mutations and genetic ...

– Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered the most distant individual star on record, a bright behemoth they nicknamed Earendel – Old English for “morning star” – because it existed ...

Banks in Britain have warned the government that a plan to ban all Russians from holding more than 50,000 pounds ($65,430) in their accounts is illegal and unworkable, five sources said. When ...

Turkish state-owned energy importer BOTAS said late on Thursday it had raised natural gas prices for industrial facilities by 50 per cent and those for households by 35 per cent, raising the ...

Russia’s central bank said on Friday it was softening restrictions on foreign fund transfers for individuals for a six-month period. The bank said the measures, which raise an earlier ...

The International Energy Agency will hold an emergency meeting on Friday among consuming nations to discuss a new release of strategic reserves alongside a plan by the United States to ...

England manager Gareth Southgate said they can win the World Cup in Qatar but will have to be “close to perfect” to do so. England were semi-finalists at the 2018 World ...

China’s commercial hub of Shanghai ground to halt on Friday after the government locked down most of the city’s 26 million residents to stop the spread of COVID-19, even ...

Daniil Medvedev’s bid to reclaim the world number one ranking fell short on Thursday as the Russian lost 7-6(7) 6-3 to Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz in the Miami Open ...

An aide to the mayor of Mariupol said on Friday the besieged southern Ukrainian city remained closed for anyone trying to enter and was “very dangerous” for anyone trying to ...

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 44 points, hit the tying 3-pointer with 18.7 seconds left in regulation and sank the tiebreaking free throws with three seconds left in overtime as the Milwaukee Bucks outlasted ...

One of President Vladimir Putin’s allies warned on Friday that Russia, a major global wheat exporter, could limit supplies of agriculture products to “friendly” countries only, amid Western sanctions ...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will learn on Friday their opponents for what is almost certainly their last World Cup finals when the draw is made for November’s tournament ...

Two trainer aircraft of South Korea’s air force collided in mid-air on Friday, authorities said, with media putting the casualties at three pilots killed and another injured in the ...

Two of Ukraine‘s military helicopters struck a fuel storage facility in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday after crossing the border at low altitude, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov ...

Police in Sri Lanka‘s capital lifted a curfew on Friday after protests in which dozens of people were arrested and several policemen were hurt near the home of President ...