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Paris Olympics organisers said on Monday they have fixed early logistical teething problems after several delegations complained about food and transportation at the Games. The quality and quantity of food ...

At least 140 people were injured in southern Russia on Monday when a train carrying 800 passengers smashed into a truck on a level crossing, causing eight carriages to derail, Russian Railways ...

Shares of New York-listed cryptocurrency firms gained before the open on Monday after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talked up bitcoin and promised friendlier regulation for the industry. Crypto exchange ...

A bruising selloff in US stocks is putting a sharper focus on valuations of the tech names such as Nvidia and Microsoft that have driven markets higher for most of ...

Russian forces are focusing their heaviest assaults near Ukraine’s strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv said on Monday, as Moscow bears down on a key Ukrainian supply route more ...

Israel wants to hurt Hezbollah but not drag the Middle East into all-out war, two Israeli officials said on Monday, as Lebanon braced for retaliation after a rocket strike that ...

France suspects members of far-left groups were behind the sabotage of the country’s high-speed rail network last week just as the Olympic Games were about to begin. Saboteurs struck ...

European companies focused on clean energy are abandoning expansion plans, bracing for lower sales or see funding of US projects in doubt because of fears over what a potential election ...

Oil prices rose on Monday, paring last week’s loss, on fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East following a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which ...

President Tayyip Erdogan said late on Sunday that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what ...

An Israeli drone strike killed two people and wounded three more in southern Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese civil defence said, as Lebanon braced for Israeli retaliation following a rocket ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival Edmundo Gonzalez were each claiming victory in a presidential election on Monday morning, after a vote marked by accusations of underhand tactics ...

The Philippines gaming regulator will cancel the licenses of offshore gambling firms, most of them Chinese owned, and will work with law enforcement agencies to completely stamp out these operators, ...

 Mercedes driver George Russell has been disqualified and lost his Belgium Grand Prix win on Sunday, after his car was found to be underweight, and his teammate Lewis Hamilton is ...

French police have opened an investigation into death threats against three Israeli athletes at the Paris Olympic Games, the Paris’ prosecutors office said on Sunday. Anti-cybercrime officers are also investigating ...

Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines (MEA) said on Sunday it had delayed the departures of some incoming flights set to land in Beirut overnight to arrive on Monday morning instead. ...

Paris 2024 organisers apologised on Sunday to Catholics and other Christian groups angered by a kitsch tableau in the Olympic Games opening ceremony that parodied Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous ‘The ...

 Thousands of mourners attended funeral ceremonies on Sunday for the 12 children and teenagers killed by a rocket strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights as Israel vowed swift retaliation against the ...

Stellantis (STLAM.MI) is ready to “fight” for its place in Europe’s electric vehicle market against strong competition from Chinese carmakers, said CEO Carlos Tavares during a presentation of ...

Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said this week, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track ...

It may take a little more time for ether to edge out of bitcoin’s shadow. Investors are more cautious and divided ahead of the US launch of exchange-traded funds ...

Samoa’s boxing coach Lionel Elika Fatupaito has died during the Paris Olympics, the International Boxing Association said on Saturday. According to reports in Samoan media, he died on Friday ...

Men’s top seed Novak Djokovic began his fifth Olympic Games with an emphatic victory over Australia’s Matthew Ebden after women’s favourite Iga Swiatek launched her bid for ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Christians on Friday that if they vote for him this November, “in four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have ...