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The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would ...

Russia warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and, mocking his height by calling him ‘Micron’, ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping ...

European leaders on Thursday said they would stand by Ukraine and spend more on defence in a world upended by Donald Trump’s reversal of U.S. policies. “Europe must ...

Lyonnais coach Paulo Fonseca has been suspended for nine months by the French Professional Football League (LFP), following a confrontation with referee Benoit Millot during his team’s recent 2-1 ...

A Spanish prosecutor has asked for a retrial after the High Court sentence convicting the former head of the country’s football federation, Luis Rubiales, for kissing national team player ...

The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that experts say requires the government ...

Turkey’s armed forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria in the week since jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan’s disarmament call, the defence ministry said on Thursday. ...

South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian district on Thursday, injuring 15 people and damaging houses and a church during military exercises in Pocheon, the Air Force ...

The euro held at a four-month high against the US dollar on Thursday, as optimism lingered around Germany’s plan for a massive infrastructure fund and debt overhaul, ahead of ...

Manchester United will be without defender Harry Maguire and midfielder Manuel Ugarte for Thursday’s Europa League last-16 clash with Real Sociedad, coach Ruben Amorim said, as he seeks to ...

Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Dejan Kulusevski is out of Thursday’s Europa League last-16 tie against AZ Alkmaar with injury and unlikely to return before the international break at the end ...

Midfielder Cole Palmer will return to Chelsea’s Conference League squad on Thursday for the first leg of their last-16 clash at Danish side Copenhagen, manager Enzo Maresca said. It ...

Lesotho’s foreign minister said he was shocked and insulted by U.S. President Donald Trump saying nobody has heard of the African country, and invited him to come visit. ...

Russian officials and lawmakers on Thursday poured scorn on French President Emmanuel Macron for saying that Russia threatened Europe, and cautioned that such talk could lead the West towards the ...

Liverpool substitute Harvey Elliott scored a last-gasp winner 47 seconds after coming on to earn a fortunate 1-0 win against Paris St Germain while Harry Kane scored twice for Bayern in ...

Hamas said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated threats against Palestinians constituted support for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to back out of the Gaza ...

All British workers, including nearly a million agency workers, will be entitled to a contract which reflects the hours they regularly work, according to amendments tabled by the government to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he was willing to discuss offering European allies the protection of France’s nuclear capabilities, adding that Russia represented a genuine threat to ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday there had been “positive movement” in cooperation with the United States that could lead to another meeting between the two sides soon. Kyiv ...

Alphabet’s Google launched an experimental version of its search engine on Wednesday that completely eliminates its classic 10 blue links in favor of an AI-generated summary. The new feature, available ...

A Russian court jailed a British man for 19 years on Wednesday after he was found guilty of fighting for Ukraine in the Kursk region of western Russia. The court said ...

Greece’s centre-right government faces a no-confidence vote this week over a deadly 2023 train disaster, days after protesters brought the country to a standstill to press their demands for political ...

New Zealand beat South Africa by 50 runs in the second semi-final of the Champions Trophy on Wednesday to secure their place in Sunday’s final against India. Electing to bat, ...

Three British right-wing extremists planned to collect an arsenal of weapons, including a 3D-printed gun, and carry out an attack as part of a “race war”, prosecutors said at the ...