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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday said that he would not take orders from a “gringo,” responding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s letter slapping Brazil ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi visited the infamous Alcatraz prison in the San Francisco Bay on Thursday, weeks after President Donald Trump said he would order the long-shuttered facility, ...

Israel has demanded the U.N. Human Rights Council scrap a commission investigating rights violations in the Palestinian territories and Israel, accusing the body of bias, in a letter seen ...

British pay growth slowed in May and employee numbers dropped further last month, but the cooling in the labour market which had alarmed some policymakers appeared less acute than previous ...

President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing support among nationalist Turkish voters in making peace with Kurdistan Workers Party militants, whose burning of weapons last week was dismissed by some as a ...

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that Russia had no plans to attack NATO or Europe but, if the West escalated the Ukraine war any further, then Moscow ...

Oil prices edged up on Thursday on signs of easing trade tensions, stronger than expected economic data from the world’s top oil consumers and renewed risks in the Middle ...

Eight children in the UK have been spared from devastating genetic diseases thanks to a new three-person in vitro fertilization technique, scientists from Newcastle University reported on Wednesday. The technique, ...

The British government said on Thursday it planned to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections in a major overhaul of the country’s democratic system. ...

Two women were killed and several people were injured following a strike which hit the Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip, doctors at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said ...

Olympic ski cross bronze medallist Audun Gronvold has died at the age of 49 after being struck by lightning during a cabin trip, the Norwegian Ski Federation said on Wednesday. Gronvold ...

England’s women are banking on their “proper England” mentality to come through a testing quarter-final against Sweden at Euro 2025 on Thursday. The defending champions credited their resurgent performances, including ...

Padraig Harrington struck the first tee shot as the 153rd British Open started in cloudy conditions at Royal Portrush on Thursday. Ireland’s Harrington, twice the Open champion, was playing ...

Cristiana Girelli scored a 90th-minute winner, her second goal of a superb double, as Italy beat Norway 2-1 on Wednesday to book their spot in the semi-finals at the Women’...

The US Senate early on Thursday approved President Donald Trump’s plan for billions of dollars in cuts to funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing the Republican president ...

A massive fire in a hypermarket in al-Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 60 people dead and 11 others missing, the city’s health authorities and two police sources ...

Malaysian authorities arrested more than a dozen men in the northeastern state of Kelantan last month during a late night raid of a “gay party”, a police official said on ...

Goldman Sachs’ (GS.N) second-quarter profit exceeded Wall Street expectations, as turbulent markets lifted revenue from its equities division to a record and a pickup in dealmaking boosted investment banking. ...

A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s ...

Large US multinationals should soon start showing the positive effects of the dollar’s tumble in recent months, reversing the situation in the past few years when the greenback’s ...

US President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war with an array of tariffs that target individual products and countries. Trump has set a baseline tariff of 10 per cent ...

Britain’s financial regulator fined Barclays 42 million pounds ($56 million) on Wednesday for failing to evaluate money laundering risks while providing services to its clients Stunt & Co and WealthTek. The ...

London Southend Airport said on Wednesday that it had partially reopened after flights to and from the airport were suspended following a plane crash that killed four foreign nationals on ...

An officer with Britain’s National Crime Agency who stole cryptocurrency from the operator of an illegal dark web marketplace was jailed on Wednesday for 5-1/2 years. The NCA was ...