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U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan returned to the United States on Thursday, hours after being freed from Russian detention in the biggest prisoner exchange ...

Intel (INTC.O) was set to erase nearly $25 billion in market value on Friday in what would be its worst selloff since 2000 after it suspended its dividend and slashed its ...

If anyone needed any confirmation about Simone Biles’ standing in gymnastics, the sparkling GOAT necklace she slipped on and ecstatically showed off to a TV camera after she sealed the ...

Airlines are avoiding Iranian and Lebanese airspace and cancelling flights to Israel and Lebanon, as concerns grow over a possible conflict in the region after the killing of senior members ...

The Israeli military confirmed that it had killed Al-Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul in an airstrike in Gaza, saying he was a Hamas operative who had taken part in the Oct. 7 ...

Emotions ran high at the surfing venue in Tahiti on Thursday, with reigning Olympic champion Carissa Moore and local favourite Vahine Fierro knocked out, while Brazil’s Gabriel Medina set ...

Turkey has blocked access to social media platform Instagram, the infotech regulator said on Friday, without stating a reason or duration for the ban, which also left the platform’s ...

Barclays (BARC.L) announced a new 750 million pound ($957 million)share buyback and upgraded its longer term earnings guidance on Thursday, driven in part by an upswing in trading income that ...

Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) (2010.SE), one of the world’s biggest petrochemicals companies, reported a close to 85 per cent jump in second-quarter net profit on Thursday, helped by higher ...

Partners in the Israeli Leviathan offshore gas project have approved a $429 million investment to expand the field and increase production, a statement from the group said on Thursday. The expansion ...

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday defended its decision to allow two female boxers to compete at the Paris Olympics despite an ongoing gender row, saying the pair were facing ‘...

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released by Russia on Thursday as part of the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the end of the ...

Israeli forces hit a school in Shejaia in Gaza City on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 29, Palestinian civil emergency services said, as fighting continued in various parts of ...

Germany’s Lufthansa Group LHAG.DE and its unit Swiss International Air Lines have cancelled all passenger and cargo flights to and from Tel Aviv with immediate effect through Aug. 8, ...

South Korea is ready to provide North Korea with relief supplies for damage caused by recent heavy rainfall, South Korea’s Red Cross said on Thursday, marking a rare outreach ...

Shipping company Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) on Thursday raised its full-year guidance on the back of strong container market demand and the crisis in the Red Sea, but also said the ...

Algerian Imane Khelif moved past Angela Carini when the Italian surprisingly abandoned their welterweight round of 16 fight after 46 seconds in the first round on Thursday, feeling pain in her nose. ...

Signs of a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Belarus on one side and the United States, Germany and Slovenia on the other, multiplied on Thursday but there was no ...

Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 39,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people from their ...

The Bank of England cut interest rates from a 16-year high on Thursday after a narrow vote in favour from policymakers divided over whether inflation pressures had eased sufficiently. Governor ...

Steve McClaren was hired as head coach of Jamaica’s men’s national soccer team on Wednesday, the Jamaican Football Federation (JFF) said. The former England national team and Premier ...

The head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month, the Israeli military said on Thursday, a day after the group’s ...

Simone Biles will be chasing a sixth Olympic gold medal and her second of the Paris Olympics when she competes in the women’s gymnastics all-around final on Thursday in ...

A 17-year-old male already in custody has been charged with murder for the deaths of three young girls in a frenzied knife attack in Southport, UK police said on Wednesday, ...