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Norwegian authorities have seized a Russian cruise ship in the Arctic on behalf of Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz, which is seeking to enforce a $4.22 billion compensation award for assets that ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to block federal aid for universities that boycott Israel, the latest Republican-backed pro-Israel measure amid growing Democratic criticism of the ...

Gloria Steinem, the American writer, lecturer, activist and organiser who fought for gender equality and women’s civil and reproductive rights for more than five decades, has died, her foundation ...

Formula One’s governing body declared a heat hazard for this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the second time this season that it has taken such a step. ...

Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday that Israel would strike Iran’s energy and civilian infrastructure if Iran were to attack Israel, the country’s latest threat to Tehran ...

The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to intensify further into 2027 and could be the strongest ever, raising risks of extreme weather into next year, the World Meteorological Organization ...

Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial will begin a sixth day of deliberations on Thursday after twice saying they were deadlocked on whether to convict the Massachusetts woman for ...

Malta’s government has urged calm after the acquittal of a businessman accused of commissioning the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The verdict, delivered late on Wednesday, has ...

German police are investigating a suspected politically motivated arson attack at a construction site outside the Munich headquarters of defence technology company Rohde & Schwarz, authorities said on Thursday. A ...

Tiger Woods will have his license suspended for five years after reaching a plea deal in his impaired-driving case on Wednesday that will allow the decorated golfer to avoid jail ...

The U.S. Open’s second round continues on Thursday, with top seeds Coco Gauff, Alexander Zverev and Felix Auger-Aliassime facing opponents who have pushed them hard in the past ...

Carlos Alcaraz took another solid step in his comeback from injury while fellow defending champion Aryna Sabalenka also advanced at the U.S. Open on Wednesday, as organisers heaved a ...

Russian air attacks wounded 17 people and damaged a 21-storey residential building in Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Thursday, Serhiy Lysak, the head of the city’...

The sudden recent escalation of the Iran war has cast renewed attention on its civilian toll after Iran reported 18 dead in the last U.S. assault, including four killed and ...

Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was accused of commissioning the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, was acquitted on Wednesday at the end of a two-month trial. Fenech, 44, was ...

King Charles and French President Emmanuel Macron visited on Wednesday the exhibition housing the historic Bayeux Tapestry, the nearly 1,000-year-old embroidery which depicts the conquest of England by the monarch’...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the renewed US campaign against Iran would not continue for “too long” after the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington ...

Daniil Medvedev overcame an unusual interruption from two birds to fly into the third round of the U.S. Open on Wednesday as he flattened American wildcard Sebastian Gorzny 6-1 6...

China’s Guangdong coast was placed on heightened alert on Wednesday as Typhoon Saudel strengthened over the South China Sea and was forecast to make landfall or pass close to ...

US Preisdent Donald Trump proposed on Wednesday to rename the Strait of Hormuz as the “Trump Strait”, following his precedence of ‘renaming’ Lake Ontario, located on the border with Canada, ...

The head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday said the Ebola response needs to be scaled up to tackle the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with tracking ...

Everton’s Fans’ Forum on Wednesday criticised the club’s planning and recruitment following the close of the transfer window, saying supporters deserved answers after another window marked by late ...

Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar will miss this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza as he recovers from injury, with Liam Lawson replacing him for the second race in ...

Eleven wounded, university damaged in daytime attack Russian drones tore into central Kyiv on Wednesday morning, wounding 11 people and damaging residential and university buildings on the seventh day of nearly ...