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Britain plans to double the time most foreign workers must wait for settled status to 10 years, with exceptions for doctors and nurses, the government said on Thursday, adding that some ...

A huge investigation into insider betting in Turkey’s football leagues is likely to widen and include coaches, commentators and club chairmen, a prosecutor was cited as saying on Thursday. ...

Italy will face Northern Ireland in the European playoffs in their bid to qualify for the 2026 World Cup while Sweden meet Ukraine as 16 teams learned the pathways that determine the ...

Israel’s expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on ...

Russia’s parliament said on Thursday that any seizure of Russian assets by the European Union must be met by legal action against Belgium and securities house Euroclear, and Moscow ...

The global luxury goods industry is likely to sell 3% to 5% more next year after stagnating in 2025, but years of aggressive price increases have alienated customers, threatening long-term growth, Bain & ...

European countries pushed back on Thursday against a U.S.-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions ...

British consumers’ optimism about the economy and their own finances recorded its sharpest fall this month since April, when many household bills increased and US President Donald Trump announced wide-ranging ...

Israeli airstrikes killed four people and wounded 18 others in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, as Hamas and Israel accused each other of ...

Australia and England wrapped up their Ashes preparations on Thursday with the home side showing their hand with a pair of debutants while the visitors kept their final XI under ...

Formula One championship leader Lando Norris would once have been upset to be booed on the podium but now McLaren’s title frontrunner is in the zone and completely unbothered, ...

The U.S. has signalled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that proposes Kyiv giving up territory ...

A power blackout briefly hit parts of Paris on Thursday morning, which French grid operator RTE linked to a technical incident at its Issy-Les-Moulineaux electrical substation, southwest of the French ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website to say that claims about vaccines not causing autism are not “evidence-based.” Vaccine skeptic and U.S. Health ...

President Donald Trump signed legislation on Wednesday ordering the Justice Department to release documents from its long-running investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — files eagerly sought by both his political ...

Britain’s markets face a major test in next week’s budget, with the outlook for bonds, stocks and sterling all hinging on Finance Minister Rachel Reeves striking the right ...

Boeing (BA.N) hit back at the Dubai Airshow with a provisional order for 75 of its 737 MAX jets from flydubai on Wednesday, a day after the long-time Boeing customer handed ...

France may post its first annual trade deficit for food and farm goods in nearly 50 years as new tariffs on wine exports and high prices for cocoa and coffee imports ...

At least 25 Palestinians were killed in four Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday in a part of Gaza under Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, health authorities said. ...

Britain said it shares U.S. President Donald Trump’s goal of ending the war in Ukraine and urged Russia to withdraw its forces, after Reuters reported that Washington has ...

Roger Federer will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame (ITHF) in an induction celebration set for August 2026 in Newport, Rhode Island, the ITHF said on Wednesday. Federer ...

The contest between England’s dialled-down ‘Bazball’ approach and Australia’s more methodical batting could determine who prevails in the Ashes series beginning in Perth on Friday. Conceived by head ...

The United States, Australia and Britain announced coordinated sanctions on Wednesday against Russia-based web company Media Land, accusing it of supporting ransomware operations. U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign ...

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey renewed their bid to get federal criminal charges against him tossed out on Wednesday, arguing in court that President Donald Trump’s personal ...