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The ninth Women’s World Cup opened with a celebration of New Zealand’s traditional Maori culture on Thursday, despite a shooting near the Norwegian team hotel in the country’...

Wildfires across Greece were largely contained on Thursday after razing swathes of forest and dozens of homes for days, though a new heatwave loomed, threatening to stoke tinderbox conditions across ...

Investors in El Salvador international bonds are relishing 60 per cent returns this year alone as debt issued by the Central American country recovers from calls of doom and default, with ...

Rescue workers in India battled difficult terrain and bad weather on Thursday as they searched for more than 100 people feared trapped in a landslide that killed at least 10 villagers after ...

At least two people and an armed attacker were killed and five others wounded in a shooting in New Zealand’s largest city of Auckland on Thursday, hours ahead of ...

Hundreds of protesters stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad in the early hours of Thursday morning, scaling its walls and setting it on fire in protest against the expected ...

India’s Tata Group will build an electric vehicle battery plant in Britain to supply its Jaguar Land Rover factories, delivering a major boost for a UK car industry in ...

Swedish truckmaker AB Volvo (VOLVb.ST) on Wednesday logged a better-than-expected 57 per cent jump in second-quarter adjusted operating profit, helped by price hikes. “We have been successful in improving margins ...

Australia’s securities regulator said on Wednesday it had cancelled the license of the local arm of collapsed US cryptocurrency exchange FTX, effective from July 14. Bahamas-headquartered FTX, once a star ...

Britain’s financial watchdog has stepped into a row over the closure of former Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage’s bank accounts, after Farage claimed NatWest’s NWG.L private ...

A Kosovo court has sentenced the country’s former secret service chief to four years and eight months in prison for the arrest and extradition to Turkey of six Turkish ...

Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of damaging grain export infrastructure in “hellish” overnight strikes focused on two of its Black Sea ports, vowing not to be intimidated from working to ...

Several people were shot in Kenya, some possibly fatally, as security forces clashed with demonstrators across the country protesting high costs of living and tax hikes, a hospital official and ...

Italy put 23 cities on red alert with temperatures set to reach up to 46 Celsius (114 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, one of the global hotspots as a wave of extreme heat, wildfires and ...

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury found the former U.S. president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the ...

A nephew of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has been appointed the new head of Russia’s Danone subsidiary DANO.PA after the Kremlin ordered the state to take temporary control ...

The head of Britain’s MI6 foreign spy service said on Wednesday last month’s mutiny by Russian mercenaries showed there were ‘deep fractures’ surrounding the Kremlin, and invited Russians ...

Nissan (7201.T) and Renault (RENA.PA) will make an announcement in the coming days on their restructured alliance and have finalised the deal, three people familiar with the matter said, ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) has requested approval from German local authorities to make sweeping changes to its factory near Berlin, a key next step in its ambitious plan to expand the ...

Global oil prices were little changed on Wednesday as markets weighed US demand concerns against China’s pledge to support economic growth. Brent futures were flat at $79.63 a barrel by 0800 ...

A public health group has recommended the introduction of siestas in Germany as temperatures soar in a sizzling summer heatwave. Johannes Niessen, the head of the BVOeGD public health officers ...

Britain’s high rate of inflation fell by more than expected in June and was its slowest in over a year at 7.9 per cent, according to data that will ease ...

Wildfires burned for a third day west of the Greek capital Athens on Wednesday, as authorities braced for a new heatwave stoking tinderbox conditions across the country. At first light, ...

A fire that broke out at the military training grounds in the Kirovske district on the Crimean Peninsula has forced the evacuation of more than 2,000 people and a closure of ...