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With the world still divided over how ambitious its first plastics treaty should be, countries are considering launching a series of smaller meetings before a hoped-for agreement in December. Countries ...

French actor Gerard Depardieu will be tried next October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot, the Paris public prosecutor said on Monday. Depardieu, one of ...

Five Republican-led states on Monday filed lawsuits challenging new Biden administration regulations that bar schools and colleges that receive federal funding from discriminating against students based on their gender identity. ...

The U.S. State Department found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in incidents that took place outside of Gaza before conflict broke ...

Flash floods and a landslide in central Kenya killed at least 45 people and injured over 110 others on Monday as floodwaters swept away houses and cars in the town of Mai ...

Turkey has told allies that it will back the candidacy of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to be NATO’s next secretary-general, a Turkish official said on Monday, an important ...

England rugby international Billy Vunipola was sentenced to four months’ imprisonment and fined 240 euros for assault and battery after being arrested by police in Mallorca, Spain, following an incident at ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Hamas to swiftly accept an Israeli proposal for a truce in the Gaza war and the release of Israeli hostages ...

A man was convicted of involuntary arson on Monday for his role in Greece‘s deadliest wildfire in memory, and five former fire officials found guilty of misdemeanours linked to ...

Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google recently announced that it would invest $3 billion to set up a data centre campus in Indiana and expand sites in Virginia. A boom in artificial ...

Royal Caribbean Group raised its annual profit forecast for a second time and beat expectations for first-quarter profit and revenue last week, with half of its growth coming from higher ...

Scotland‘s leader Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday, further opening the door to the UK opposition Labour Party regaining ground in its former Scottish heartlands in a national election expected ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a fresh plea to the international community to hurry up and deliver more air defences, start formal talks for his country to enter the European ...

Israel is voicing concern that the International Criminal Court could be preparing to issue arrest warrants for government officials on charges related to its war against Hamas. The ICC – which ...

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) shares were 5.5 per cent lower in early trade on Monday after news that Germany’s largest lender could be on the hook for up to 1.3 billion ...

Harry Kane has his eyes set on Robert Lewandowski’s record for most Bundesliga goals in a season after scoring twice in a 2-1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt, but the ...

Paris St Germain were crowned Ligue 1 champions for a record-extending 12th time on Sunday, as their third straight title was wrapped up following another dominant domestic campaign when second-placed AS ...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first stop in a broader trip to the Middle East to discuss issues including the governance of ...

Oil prices fell in early Asian trading on Monday, erasing gains from Friday as Israel-Hamas peace talks in Cairo eased fears of a wider conflict in the Middle East and ...

In Gaza City, in the north of the strip, Israeli planes struck two houses, killing and wounding several people, health officials said. The strikes on Rafah, where over a million ...

Upcoming quarterly reports from US tech giants may show Microsoft (MSFT.O) is closing the gap on cloud-computing market leader Amazon.com as more businesses switch to its services, attracted ...

Heineken (HEIN.AS) sold more beer than expected in the first quarter, reporting its first year-on-year growth in quarterly volumes in a year, as it kept its 2024 profit growth forecast. ...

A spike in power usage from artificial intelligence (AI) data centers could significantly boost natural gas demand in the second half of the decade, analysts at investment banker Tudor Pickering ...

German email service Tuta Mail has complained to European Union tech regulators about what it described as a sudden drop in Google search results on the day the bloc’s ...