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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who has objected to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, held phone calls with the leaders of the two countries on Saturday and discussed his concerns about ...

Kylian Mbappe has decided to extend his stay at Paris St Germain, French sport daily L’Equipe reported on Saturday. The France forward, whose current contract expires on June 30, had ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded defeat after an election on Saturday and the opposition Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule, possibly with the support ...

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said his team’s struggles in the Premier League have been caused by a continuous injury crisis, adding that the club could do better with a ...

Mercedes have not given up on defending their Formula One constructors’ title despite a difficult start to the season, the team’s technical director Mike Elliott said on Saturday. The ...

Liverpool may have a historic quadruple in their sights but manager Juergen Klopp insisted that pressure is not a factor as his side prepare to face Wolverhampton Wanderers on the ...

The Russian military said on Saturday it had destroyed a major consignment of Western arms in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, using sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles. The defence ...

Health authorities in Spain reported on Friday 23 new confirmed cases of monkeypox, mainly in the Madrid region where the regional government closed a sauna linked to the majority of infections. ...

Russia’s Gazprom GAZP.MM on Saturday halted gas exports to neighbouring Finland, in the latest escalation of an energy payments dispute with Western nations. Gazprom Export has demanded that ...

Violent storms buffeting western Germany on Friday killed at least one man and injured some 40 people, 10 of them seriously, when an apparent tornado raked several towns, police and local media ...

Emmanuel Macron retained his finance and interior ministers while appointing only the second woman to head France’s foreign ministry, as the president reshuffled his cabinet ahead of parliamentary elections ...

Germany and Italy told companies they could open rouble accounts to keep buying Russian gas without breaching sanctions against Moscow following discussions with the European Union, sources said. The debate ...

Russia’s defence ministry on Friday said the last group of Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol’s smashed Azovstal steel works had surrendered, marking an end to a weeks-long ...

Britain reduced its COVID-19 alert level from four to three on Friday, saying the Omicron-variant wave of the virus was subsiding and healthcare pressures continued to decrease in all nations. “...

Lebanon’s government foresees cancelling “a large part” of the central bank’s foreign currency obligations to commercial banks and dissolving non-viable banks by November, according to a financial recovery ...

The Ukraine crisis grabbed the spotlight in Cannes on Friday as a semi-naked protester painted in blue and yellow was ejected from the red carpet. The unidentified woman ripped off ...

Turkey’s approach to the Nato accession process of Sweden and Finland is not a bilateral issue between Washington and Ankara, State Department spokesperson said on Friday, adding that the ...

A patient with monkeypox was confirmed in the Netherlands for the first time, the government’s health agency said on Friday, adding more people may have become infected with the ...

A dead sperm whale washed up on the Tel Aviv shore on Friday (May 20), its decomposing, 30-foot (10metre)-long carcass startling some beachgoers while others flocked for a rare close ...

Russia’s state-owned oil company Rosneft said on Friday that former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and German businessman Matthias Warnig were stepping down from its board of directors. The European ...

McDonald’s franchisees in Russia will have the option of working under a new brand that will launch imminently, the TASS news agency quoted Oleg Paroev, McDonald’s Russia’s ...

Russia’s Gazprom has informed Finland it will halt flows of natural gas from Saturday morning, Gasum said on Friday, after the Finnish state-owned gas wholesaler refused to pay its ...

Japanese police on Friday arrested a senior finance ministry official involved in coordinating policies with the central bank for possible assault charges, public broadcaster NHK reported. Heihachiro Ono, 56, deputy vice ...

The World Health Organization was due to hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, ...