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Turkey’s justice minister said on Tuesday the pro-Kurdish DEM Party’s application to meet jailed Kurdish militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan was under consideration, without giving details. “The process ...

Young people must take up the fight for a nuclear-free world, with such weapons many times more powerful than in the past, a representative for this year’s Nobel Peace ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign intelligence chief said on Tuesday that Russia was close to achieving its goals in Ukraine with Moscow holding what he said was the strategic ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the witness stand for the first time on Tuesday in his long-running corruption trial, saying he was being hounded for his hawkish security policies. ...

Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 34 Palestinians overnight and on Tuesday, medics said, as Israeli tanks pushed into areas in central and southern parts of the enclave. ...

The Italian government has scrapped fines on people who refused to get mandatory COVID-19 jabs, it said in a statement late on Monday, after they were introduced to boost vaccinations ...

Israel denied on Tuesday that its forces had penetrated into Syrian territory beyond the buffer zone with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, after Syrian sources said the incursion had extended to ...

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti believes his side won’t secure a top-eight finish in the 36-team Champions League table and will have to go through a two-legged knockout playoff ...

Liverpool have had more rest than usual for the Champions League trip to Girona after their weekend game was postponed and have no need to change the team, manager Arne ...

West Ham United’s Jarrod Bowen struck midway through the second half to secure a deserved 2-1 Premier League home win on Monday over Wolverhampton Wanderers, whose poor defending cost ...

Premier League referee David Coote has been sacked by English soccer referees’ body PGMOL on Monday, after their investigation found his actions to be in serious breach of his contract. ...

Israel pounded Syrian army bases on Tuesday in strikes it says aim to keep weapons from falling into hostile hands, but denied its forces had advanced into Syria beyond a ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is set to take the stand on Tuesday for the first time in his long-running corruption trial under a court order that is likely ...

France and Germany’s political crises are a setback for efforts to modernise Europe’s struggling economy and are already making it harder for companies to take the investment decisions ...

The lightning overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad left Syrians, countries in the region and world powers nervous on Tuesday about what comes next as the rebel alliance took its first ...

Demand for workers in Britain collapsed last month after the new Labour government’s first budget, a survey published on Monday showed, adding to other signs of the impact of ...

Japan’s bankruptcy filings this year are set to surpass 10,000 and hit the highest since 2013, private-sector data by Tokyo Shoko Research (TSR) showed on Monday, ahead of a closely watched ...

A Rotterdam court held an initial hearing on Monday in the case of a Russian former employee of semiconductor equipment maker ASML (ASML.AS) who is suspected of stealing intellectual ...

Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria’s leading rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, on Monday, an official briefed on the developments told Reuters, as regional states race to open contact with ...

Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said on Monday, and keep a “limited” troop presence on the ground, hoping to head off any ...

The man suspected of killing UnitedHealth UNH.N executive Brian Thompson in a brazen shooting outside a midtown Manhattan hotel last week has been arrested, New York City officials said ...

By Riham AlkousaaEuropean countries were putting asylum applications from Syrians on hold until further notice on Monday after rebels toppled autocratic president Bashar al-Assad. The decision, which affects tens of ...

Damascus stirred back to life on Monday at the start of a hopeful but uncertain era after rebels seized the Syrian capital and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 ...

Lewis Hamilton raced one last time for Mercedes on Sunday, Formula One’s most successful driver and team partnership ending in a cloud of tyre smoke, a radio love-in and ...