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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken flies to Beijing this weekend with expectations low that he will make headway on the long list of disputes between the U.S. ...

As Greece confronts its worst sea disaster in years, questions are mounting about how potentially hundreds of migrants drowned even as their vessel was being shadowed by the Greek coastguard. ...

Short video app TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, said on Thursday it would invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia over the next few years, as it doubles down ...

Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks with Egypt about potentially investing in seven historic hotels there, in what could be a landmark deal between the two countries that ...

Saudi Arabia’s inflation rate was 2.8 per cent in May, slightly higher than 2.7 per cent the previous month, driven by housing costs, government data released on Thursday showed. Higher prices ...

International donors pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.13 billion) at an EU-hosted conference in Brussels on Thursday to help Syria where an earthquake in February compounded the plight of a poverty-stricken population caught ...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies ...

Russia again told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday it wants an international investigation into explosions last September on the Nord Stream gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany that ...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday left open the prospect that his term may be extended as senior officials from alliance member countries openly endorsed the idea – including one of ...

The U.S. government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the ...

Wind speeds and rainfall picked up on India’s Gujarat coast late on Thursday, officials said, after authorities there and in neighbouring Pakistan evacuated more than 180,000 people in the path ...

Russia announced plans on Thursday to stage elections in occupied parts of Ukraine in just three months, Moscow’s latest bid to signal it is in control even as a ...

Bedlam in Britain’s 1.5 trillion-pound ($1.9 trillion) mortgage market, fuelled by ructions in money markets, threatens to trigger a renewed slump in housing activity and financial pain for homeowners on a ...

Former Scotland defender Gordon McQueen, who played for Manchester United and Leeds United, died on Thursday at the age of 70 after a battle with dementia. McQueen began his playing career ...

The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the eighth successive time as expected on Thursday and signalled further policy tightening, as it battles high inflation. The ECB has now ...

NATO members are racing to complete a plan to provide long-term support to Ukraine, but are wrestling with how best to assure the country’s security until it can join ...

Rescuers scoured the seas off Greece on Thursday following a shipwreck that killed at least 78 migrants, as hopes of survivors dwindled and fears grew that hundreds more, including children, may ...

Russia’s central election commission on Thursday set the date for regional elections in four Ukrainian provinces that Moscow claims to have annexed for Sept. 10, coinciding with votes in other ...

Actress Glenda Jackson, a two-time Oscar winner who later served as a socialist politician in the British parliament for 23 years, has died. She was 87. One of four daughters of a ...

Binance is sued by the SEC, closely followed by a lawsuit against Coinbase. As centralized exchanges fall from grace, decentralized exchanges like Tradecurve and PancakeSwap become ever more important. >&...

Oil rebounded on Thursday after the previous day’s plunge, as data showed a jump in refinery runs at the world’s top crude importer China, though a weak economic ...

A hawkish message from the Federal Reserve amid a robust stock market rally is presenting investors with a conundrum: how to maintain exposure to rising equities while also guarding against ...

Manchester City begin their title defence with a trip to promoted Burnley, who are managed by the champions’ former captain Vincent Kompany, the Premier League said on Thursday. City open ...

Russia’s No. 2 lender VTB (VTBR.MM) on Thursday said it would increase the number of countries to which retail clients can send money to 25 from 11, with India and Turkey ...