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A joint US and Australian law enforcement operation busted an international drug ring after intercepting 2.4 tonnes of cocaine aboard a vessel off the coast of South America that had been ...

Brazil’s central bank on Thursday approved Meta Platforms’ (META.O) payments launch for small and medium-sized businesses in Brazil via its messaging application WhatsApp, building on the app’s ...

The United States announced a new military aid package for Ukraine on Friday worth $400 million primarily comprised of ammunition, but for the first time will include tactical bridges to move ...

It would be an absolute “red line” if China provided weapons to Russia, a senior European Union official said on Friday, adding that the EU would respond with sanctions. The ...

Families and friends, dressed in black, clung to each other, in tears, as the coffin of a 34-year-old mother killed in Greece’s deadliest train crash was lifted up the ...

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is expected to secure EU antitrust approval for its $69 billion acquisition of Activision (ATVI.O) with its offer of licensing deals to rivals, three people familiar ...

Hungarian President Katalin Novak said on Friday that no decision had yet been made on whether Budapest would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem next month despite an Israeli ...

Arsenal striker Gabriel Jesus is set to make his return soon after recovering from knee surgery but the Brazilian will have to fight for his place, manager Mikel Arteta said ...

Paris St Germain’s Achraf Hakimi is facing a criminal investigation in France after an allegation of rape was made against him, an official from the Nanterre prosecution office said ...

Oil prices slipped in early trade on Friday but were on track to post gains of nearly 2 per cent for the week as a rebound in China’s factory activity ...

Turkey’s six-party opposition alliance said it would announce its joint candidate next week to challenge President Tayyip Erdogan in the May presidential election, set to be held just three ...

Russian troops and mercenaries were closing off the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, on the cusp of Moscow’s first major victory in ...

The recovery in euro zone business activity gathered pace last month as growth accelerated in the bloc’s dominant services industry, a survey showed, providing the latest piece of evidence ...

Growth in the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) non-oil private sector in February accelerated slightly from the previous month, supported by a pick up in output growth, although the overall outlook ...

Two Americans arrested in Kansas City on Thursday for a scheme to send aviation-related technology to Russia in violation of US export controls reportedly sent them via Cyprus. Cyril Buyanovsky, 59, ...

British chip technology firm Arm Ltd, owned by Japan’s SoftBank (9984.T), said on Friday it would pursue a US-only listing this year, dashing the hopes of the British government ...

A virtual event with Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller was canceled on Thursday after the Zoom video conference was “hijacked” by a participant who displayed pornographic images. “We were a ...

More than half of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035 without significant action, according to a new report. The World Obesity Federation’s 2023 atlas predicts that 51% ...

Ukrainian forces clinging to the eastern city of Bakhmut dug new trenches in an attempt to hold back Russian attackers, as the United States said new military aid for Ukraine ...

Thousands of Australians who used do-it-yourself (DIY) pension funds to bet on cryptocurrencies face hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, jeopardising their savings in a scheme originally set up ...

Sales of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Turkey rose 63.4 per cent year-on-year in January to 81,148 units, the Automotive Distributors and Mobility Association said on Thursday. In the January-February ...

The United States is not providing Ukraine with intelligence for targets inside Russia, the Pentagon said on Thursday, calling the Russian accusations “nonsense”. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week warned ...

The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on firms it said had transported or sold Iranian petroleum or petrochemical products in violation of U.S. restrictions, including two companies based ...

There was no major foreign election interference in Canada’s last two votes, the head of the country’s spy agency said on Thursday, but there is an investigation underway ...