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A digital pound should not be available in large sums initially to avoid the risk of bank runs, British lawmakers said in a report on Saturday that also highlighted the ...

Nicaragua on Monday recalled its ambassador to Argentina ahead of the inauguration of radical right-wing libertarian Javier Milei as the South American country’s next president following his criticism of ...

Waves of attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen may not be ultimately targeting US warships, even though the US Navy has responded by shooting down drone aircraft and ...

Armenia’s defence ministry said Azerbaijani forces shot dead an Armenian serviceman near the two countries’ border on Monday, but Baku said the report was “a complete lie”. The incident, ...

White House budget director Shalanda Young warned in a letter to Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional leaders on Monday that the United States was running out of ...

Police said about 20,000 people protested in the Belgian capital to demand more action to fight global warming as delegates from some 200 countries met in Dubai for the United Nation’s ...

Temperatures in parts of Siberia plummeted to minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) while blizzards blanketed Moscow in record snowfall and disrupted flights as winter weather swept across Russia. In ...

Britain’s armed forces face an equipment funding shortfall of 17 billion pounds ($21.6 billion) over the next 10 years, a public spending watchdog said on Monday, a concern for defence chiefs at ...

Israel ordered Palestinians to leave parts of the main southern city in the Gaza Strip on Monday even as its bombs rained down on areas where it had told them ...

Music streaming giant Spotify (SPOT.N) said on Monday that it will lay off around 1,500 employees, or 17 per cent of its headcount, to bring down costs, after letting 600 of its ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would eventually be tried as a war criminal over Israel’s ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip, ...

Britain needs a new economic strategy to reverse 15 years of falling living standards and worsening inequality, a leading think tank and an academic research centre said on Monday. British productivity ...

Eleven climbers were found dead in Indonesia on Monday following the eruption of the Marapi volcano in West Sumatra, a rescue official said, as a search to find 12 more missing ...

Oil futures reversed course after rising briefly on Monday amid persistent pressure from the OPEC+ decision and uncertainty over global fuel demand growth, although the risk of supply disruptions from ...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets. Asian stocks have made a hesitant start to the week, while gold hit a new peak and Treasuries ran ...

Bitcoin has broken above $40,000 for the first time this year as it rides a wave of momentum on broad enthusiasm about US interest rate cuts and as traders anticipate the ...

The Israeli military said its forces were confronting Hamas fighters across the Gaza Strip, indicating its planned ground offensive in the enclave’s refugee-crowded south had begun as Israeli bombing ...

We asked ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral chatbot, how it felt on its first birthday. This was its reply: “Thank you for the birthday wishes! However, it’s important to note ...

Microsoft’s (MSFT.O) plan to pump 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) into Britain over the next three years, its single largest investment in the country to date, will underpin future growth ...

A Sunday goal glut ended with champions Manchester City drawing a third successive Premier League game as they were held 3-3 at home by injury-hit Tottenham Hotspur to slip to ...

Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip sought shelter in an ever-shrinking area of the south on Sunday as Israel stepped up its bombing from air, sea and land across the ...

One German tourist died and two others were injured after a man attacked tourists in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday evening in what President Emmanuel Macron described ...

Israeli settlers attacked two Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank late on Saturday, killing one man and torching a car, Palestinian authorities said. The Palestinian ambulance service said a 38...

Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, told his supporters on Saturday to “go into” Philadelphia and two other Democratic-run cities to “guard the vote” in 2024, repeating his ...