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Handcuffed, a knife still sticking out of his overalls, the Chucky doll hunches against the wall as police hold him by his bright orange hair to take his mug shot. ...

Cryptocurrency usage is growing in Nigeria as Africa’s largest economy grapples with a weakening currency and soaring inflation, New York-based blockchain research firm Chainalysis said in a report this ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he believed his country was on the cusp of peace with Saudi Arabia, predicting it could be clinched by U.S. President ...

Former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, a onetimecommunist who helped to steer his country through a debt crisis in 2011, died on Friday aged 98. Condolences poured in from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia ...

Pope Francis said on Friday that migrants who risk drowning at sea “must be rescued” because doing so was “a duty of humanity” and that those who impede rescues commit “...

U.S. President Joe Biden has informed Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Washington will provide Kyiv with ATACMS long-range missiles, NBC News reported on Friday, citing three U.S. ...

Asylum seekers in Italy will have to pay 4,938 euros ($5,259) to avoid detention while their request for protection is being processed, the government said on Friday, in a measure apparently aimed ...

U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged powerful Senator Robert Menendez and his wife with bribery over their relationship with New Jersey businessmen, which could complicate Democrats’ efforts to keep their ...

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said he does not care about allegations of “sportswashing” against the kingdom and that he will continue funding sport if it adds to ...

California on Thursday sued two anti-abortion organizations for telling patients that they can help reverse the effects of the abortion pill mifepristone, a potentially dangerous claim not supported by evidence. ...

The ethnic Armenian leadership of breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh said on Friday that there were no concrete results yet from talks with Azerbaijan on possible security guarantees or an amnesty that Baku ...

A small but restive volcano near the Philippine capital Manila spewed above average sulfur dioxide and volcanic smog on Friday, prompting authorities to close schools in dozens of cities and ...

Former Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann was appointed Germany’s new head coach until next year’s Euro 2024 on home soil, replacing Hansi Flick, the German Football Association (DFB) said ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he does not agree with the negative approach other leaders are showing towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Turkish broadcasters quoted him as saying on ...

British retail sales partially recovered in August after a rainy July washout, official figures showed on Friday, adding to signs that the country’s consumers were mostly coping with the ...

British companies endured a much tougher September than feared, marked by growing unemployment and recession risks, according to a survey on Friday that underlined why the Bank of England halted ...

India suspended new visas for Canadians and asked Ottawa to reduce its diplomatic presence in the country, sharply escalating a spat triggered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusations linking ...

Two people were killed and two injured in a shooting at a restaurant in eastern Sweden late on Thursday that police said appeared to be part of an escalating spiral ...

Oil prices rose on Friday as concerns that a Russian ban on fuel exports could tighten global supply outweighed fears that further US interest rate hikes could dent demand, but ...

Turkey’s central bank raised its key interest rate by a lofty 500 basis points to 30 per cent on Thursday, marking a second month of aggressive tightening after President Tayyip Erdogan ...

When Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of media titan Rupert Murdoch, was named the sole chairman of News Corp (NWSA.O) Thursday, the announcement put to rest immediate questions about ...

Red Bull need score only a point more than Mercedes at Suzuka on Sunday to retain their Formula One constructors’ title and trigger celebrations after last weekend’s Singapore shock. ...

France dazzled as they ran in 14 tries for their biggest ever victory with a 96-0 hammering of Namibia on Thursday but it may have come at a cost to their ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan complained that he was uncomfortable with the use of what he described as “LGBT colors” at the United Nations, which is decorated this week with ...