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Roger Federer will serve as official starter for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans sportscar race in June, organisers said on Thursday. The Swiss tennis great will lower the ...

Kyiv’s delegation at a meeting with allies in London this week reaffirmed the principles on which talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine are based, including never recognising ...

A car bomb killed a senior Russian military officer in the town of Balashikha just east of Moscow on Friday, Russian investigators said, in an attack that Russian war bloggers ...

US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Friday, where he is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Interfax news agency. Witkoff ...

Spanish football titans Real Madrid and Barcelona are set for a tantalising El Clasico clash in the Copa del Rey final on Saturday, marking the first such encounter in over ...

A Kobe Bryant jersey worn during his Los Angeles Lakers pre-season and regular-season debuts was sold for $7 million at Sotheby’s in New York City on Thursday, the auction house ...

Carlos Alcaraz has lifted the lid on his secret for winning his first Wimbledon title in 2023 and defending the title a year later – partying hard in Ibiza. In a new ...

The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion, six sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters, saying the proposal was ...

Nestle (NESN.S) on Thursday said the indirect impact of US tariffs was “unclear” and posted better-than-expected first-quarter organic sales growth, as the world’s biggest packaged food company hiked ...

Global ratings agency S&P Global downgraded Bahrain’s outlook to “negative” from “stable”, citing ongoing market volatility and weaker financing conditions that could increase the government’s interest ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday he was ready to travel to Europe for talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, with France indicating European powers were also ready ...

A 15-year-old boy killed a fellow pupil and wounded three others in a stabbing attack at a high school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday before he ...

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday ordered a lower panel to reconsider Israel’s objections to the court’s jurisdiction over arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders ...

Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 12 people in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year and drawing a rare rebuke from Donald Trump, ...

Thousands of people marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp in Poland on Thursday in an annual ceremony organisers said would be joined by 80 Holocaust survivors to mark ...

Britain’s government borrowed almost 15 billion pounds more in the financial year that just ended than official budget forecasters had estimated a month ago, according to data that heaped more ...

eicester City striker Jamie Vardy will leave the Premier League club at the end of the season following their relegation, bringing the curtain down on an era where he established ...

Pakistan closed its air space for Indian airlines and rejected New Delhi’s suspension of a critical water sharing treaty on Thursday in retaliation for India’s response to a ...

Russia and Ukraine traded new barbs over faltering peace efforts on Thursday, with Moscow accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of blocking diplomacy and Kyiv saying Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted ...

Greece will deploy a record number of firefighters this year in anticipation of “bad scenarios” ahead, its climate crisis minister said on Thursday, after a succession of destructive wildfires. Weather ...

Britain’s communications regulator said on Thursday that online platforms hosting pornographic and other content considered harmful must enforce “highly effective” age restrictions by July 25 to prevent children accessing the ...

An Israeli airstrike hit a police station in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, local health authorities said, and Israel’s military said it ...

Former United States manager Bruce Arena has criticised the appointment of Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino as U.S. coach, saying the job should have gone to an American. Bruce Arena, who ...

Oil prices recovered some losses on Thursday after falling nearly 2 per cent in the previous session, with investors weighing a potential OPEC+ output increase against conflicting tariff signals from the ...