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A 4.1 magnitude quake shook southeastern Afghanistan on Friday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Strong shaking was felt by Reuters witnesses in the Afghan capital Kabul. The quake ...

The U.S. State Department on Friday launched its long-planned “China House” unit, an internal reorganization to help expand and sharpen its policymaking toward its top geopolitical rival. Secretary of ...

European shares slid on Friday, ending the week sharply lower after major central banks flagged further rate hikes, while economic activity data from the euro zone failed to assuage concerns ...

International rail operator Eurostar on Friday said that it would not operate services on Dec. 26 between Britain and France due to a national rail strike that impacts the British rail ...

Ukrainian power grid operator Ukrenergo on Friday lifted the state of emergency it declared earlier in the day after Russian missile strikes cut nationwide energy consumption by more than 50%, it ...

US basketball star Brittney Griner, who on Friday left an Army medical center where she had been recuperating following her release from a Russian penal colony as part of a ...

Coal has made a comeback in Germany this year, as Europe’s largest economy turns to the dirty fuel to power it through an energy crisis. More than a third (36.3 ...

Sinisa Mihajlovic, who played for and coached numerous Italian Serie A teams, died on Friday after a long battle with cancer. Mihajlovic, 53, was sacked as manager of Serie A club ...

A group of media companies is set to argue on Friday to the US judge overseeing the FTX bankruptcy that they should be allowed to request that the collapsed crypto ...

Several France players have caught colds, the French Football Federation said, as they prepare for the World Cup final against Argentina, with Raphael Varane and Ibrahima Konate the latest to ...

The Qatar World Cup kept political messaging away from the football so that fans could enjoy “a little moment of pleasure and joy”, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Friday. ...

Scientists have recently revived several large viruses that had been buried in the frozen Siberian ground (permafrost) for tens of thousands of years. The youngest virus to be revived was ...

Twitter suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists who recently wrote about its new owner Elon Musk, with the billionaire tweeting that rules banning the publishing of personal information applied ...

Oil fell on Friday as the market assessed the aftermath of interest rates hikes at central banks, but was poised for the biggest weekly gains in 10 weeks amid supply disruption ...

Twitter on Thursday suspended the accounts of several prominent journalists who recently wrote about its new owner Elon Musk, with the billionaire tweeting that rules banning the publishing of personal ...

The Turkish central bank’s net international reserves leapt some $3.6 billion to $26.76 billion in the week to Dec. 9, hitting their highest level this year, central bank data showed on Thursday. ...

British fans at the World Cup in Qatar behaved impeccably and none were arrested at the global tournament, the UK’s football policing lead said. “The behaviour of England and ...

A huge aquarium in Berlin burst early on Friday, spilling 1 million litres (264,172 gallons) of water, around 1,500 exotic fish and debris onto a major road in the busy Mitte district, emergency ...

Russia fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine on Friday in one of its biggest attacks since the start of the war, knocking out power in the second-biggest city and forcing ...

A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct a comprehensive survey of the world’s ...

Concerns were raised about France’s alleged lack of strength in depth after the 1-0 defeat by Tunisia in the holders’ last group game but Wednesday’s 2-0 win over ...

A large aquarium burst in a leisure complex early Friday, prompting a major response with 100 firefighters at the scene, emergency services said. “The aquarium is damaged, water is leaking. The ...

Ten people, including five children aged three to 15, were killed in a fire in the early hours of Friday in a residential building in Vaulx-en-Velin, near the French city of ...

The U.S. National Archives Kennedyeleased thousands of documents related to the 1963 assassination of then-President John F. Kennedy, acting shortly after President Joe Biden issued an executive order authorizing the ...