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A top Russian official told Ukraine on Tuesday that the longer it waited to enter peace talks, the tougher the terms would be for its people. Moscow has said talks ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America’s heartland ...

The chief of Russia’s general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has inspected Russian forces in the combat zone in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said Gerasimov heard ...

Lebanon’s armed group Hezbollah launched a series of drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel on Tuesday but warned that its much-anticipated retaliation for Israel’s killing of a ...

Australian Matt Wearn and Cypriot Pavlos Kontides look set for a potential head-to-head tactical ‘match race’ for Olympic men’s dinghy gold on Tuesday, with light winds forecast. Wearn, 28, leads ...

Germany overcame a sleepy start to ease past Greece 76-63 on Tuesday and become the first team through to the semi-finals of the Paris Olympic men’s basketball tournament. Franz ...

Israeli forces killed at least four people in the volatile city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank, medics said on Tuesday, following a night of violence in which four ...

The latest edition of the U.S. Dream Team will add their star power to the City of Light this week as the Paris Olympics basketball competition moves onto the ...

A Greek athlete has tested positive for banned substances at the Paris Games and has been expelled from the athletes’ village, the Greek Olympic Committee said on Tuesday. The team ...

Hosts France will play an Olympic men’s football final for the first time in 40 years after beating Egypt 3-1 in extra time at the Lyon stadium on Monday and ...

Local hero Kauli Vaast said he was ready to go to war to win an Olympic surfing gold medal at his home break – for his family, for all Tahitians and ...

Bangladesh’s army chief will meet student protest leaders on Tuesday as the country awaits the formation of a new government a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and ...

The United States has been urging other countries through diplomatic channels to tell Iran that escalation in the Middle East is not in their interest, a State Department spokesperson said, ...

The number of foreign tourists in Spain jumped 13 per cent in the first-half of 2024, putting the country on track for another record year for visitor numbers despite growing discontent over ...

Britain’s financial watchdog has announced that it has widened the range of “dormant” assets, or money in financial firms’ accounts to tap a potentially extra 880 million pounds ($1.12 billion) to ...

Growth in Saudi Arabia’s non-oil sector eased in July from the previous month, with new orders increasing at the slowest pace in two and a half years, a survey ...

Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record when he cleared 6.25 metres at the third attempt on Monday having retained the Olympic gold medal with a 6.00m ...

Israel has conducted a systematic policy of prisoner abuse and torture since the start of the war in Gaza, subjecting Palestinian detainees to acts ranging from arbitrary violence to sexual ...

“Twin Peaks” creator David Lynch has said he will most likely retire due to an emphysema diagnosis, a lung disease with no known cure. The 78-year-old American filmmaker said in ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by the state of Missouri to halt Donald Trump’s upcoming sentencing for his conviction in New York on felony charges ...

The British government said on Monday officials were examining the role foreign states had played in amplifying disinformation online which had helped fuel violent protests, while warning social media firms ...

Brazil announced a diplomatic agreement on Monday that will allow it to represent the interests of Argentina and Peru in Caracas, after Venezuela severed ties with the two nations following ...

A Russian pianist and anti-war activist has died in prison after going on hunger strike, his mother said, in what the European Union called a shocking case of political repression. ...

Nine staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees may have been involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, and their employment will be ...