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Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa was named president for a transitional period, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) reported on Wednesday, citing commander Hassan Abdel Ghani. Sharaa was ...

Denmark’s sovereignty is an “essential issue” for the EU, the European Council President said in an interview on Wednesday, as US President Donald Trump continues to express interest in ...

US prosecutors on Wednesday moved to end the criminal case against two associates of President Donald Trump for allegedly helping to obstruct a probe into Trump’s mishandling of classified ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the top U.S. health agency, came under attack for his anti-vaccine views at a contentious Senate confirmation hearing ...

British Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the government’s backing to a long-delayed new runway at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday as the centrepiece of her plan to speed up ...

U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and other resident aliens who took part in ...

Tunnels built to shelter Londoners during World War Two bombing by Germany are set to be transformed into the British capital’s biggest new tourist attraction for years, according to ...

A sleek, long-nosed Mercedes raced by Stirling Moss and five-times Formula One world champion Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 could become the most expensive grand prix car of all time at ...

A nuclear power plant was among the targets of a massive Ukrainian drone attack against Russian oil and power facilities, Russian officials and media outlets reported on Wednesday. Air defence ...

Dozens of people were killed in a pre-dawn stampede at the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India on Wednesday, police sources and a Reuters witness said, as tens of millions ...

Russia said on Wednesday it had held “frank” discussions with Syria’s new de facto leader as it tries to retain its two military bases in the country, but it ...

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Wednesday released a new version of its Qwen 2.5 artificial intelligence model that it claimed surpassed the highly-acclaimed DeepSeek-V3. The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max’...

The Champions League and Europa League reform drew criticism because it added to an already packed calendar, yet the European competitions’ league phase finale is set to be a memorable ...

John Perumbalath, the bishop of Liverpool, has been accused of sexually assaulting a woman and harassing another, Channel 4 reported on Tuesday, in the latest scandal to hit the Church of ...

An opinion poll indicated on Tuesday that 85% of Greenlanders do not wish their Arctic island – a semi-autonomous Danish territory – to become a part of the United States, Danish daily Berlingske ...

The Trump administration said it is offering financial incentives to 2 million civilian full-time federal workers to quit as part of plans to drastically shrink the size of the US government. ...

Germany is in a deep economic crisis, Germany’s BDI industry association said on Tuesday, forecasting a 0.1 per cent contraction in gross domestic product in 2025. A decline in 2025 would mark ...

Turbulence in some of the biggest tech names is reminding investors of one of the major risks to the US stock market’s record-setting rally: Reliance on a handful of ...

Advertised rents in Britain outside London have fallen on a quarterly basis for the first time since 2019 due mostly to a drop in demand from tenants, according to data published ...

At least three US lawmakers said on Tuesday healthcare providers were blocked from the Medicaid payment portal after the Trump administration announced a federal funding pause, even as the White ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 4, the prime minister’s office said in a statement ...

Russia’s legendary cold winters are not what they used to be. Early snowdrops, mild January temperatures and a lack of ice on rivers and lakes are all unwelcome signs ...

For 30 years, Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn’t ...

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the state’s highest court said the animals have no legal right to demand their release because they ...