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Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK party made early gains in local English election results on Friday and dramatically won a parliamentary by-election by the smallest ever margin in the ...

The Bank of England is expected to lower interest rates by a quarter point on May 8 as US President Donald Trump’s tariffs darken the global growth outlook, and some ...

The International Monetary Fund has announced that it now expects Middle East and North Africa economies to grow by just 2.6 per cent in 2025 as uncertainties stemming from a global trade ...

Saudi Arabia’s economy grew in the first quarter, supported by activity in the non-oil sector as the kingdom pushes on with diversifying away from hydrocarbons. Real gross domestic product (...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz is being forced out of his job, four people briefed on the matter said on Thursday, in the first ...

A fourth round of talks between the United States and Iran, which was due to take place in Rome on Saturday, have been postponed and a new date will be ...

Turkish police charged May Day protesters in Istanbul on Thursday, detaining hundreds of people and dragging some away in buses after they tried to defy a ban on public gatherings ...

At least seven people were killed and more than 20 wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on a busy market in a Russian-controlled part of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, ...

Increased looting of food stores and community kitchens in the Gaza Strip shows growing desperation as hunger spreads two months after Israel cut off supplies to the Palestinian territory, aid ...

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that the signing of a minerals deal between Ukraine and the United States meant U.S. President Donald Trump had forced ...

Russian drones attacked Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Thursday, killing two people and injuring 15 more, in addition to sparking fires and damaging infrastructure, emergency services ...

India shut its airspace to Pakistani airlines on Wednesday, the government said, days after its nuclear-armed neighbour banned Indian airlines from flying over its territory following the killing of 26 men ...

All members of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) except for Hungary will be present for a meeting of its council of elders which is set to take place in ...

Cyprus was among the countries which Israel asked for help to combat wildfires raging near Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar confirmed. Sa’ar wrote in ...

Ukraine and the U.S. on Wednesday signed a deal heavily promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump that will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that “historical problems” in Cyprus can be left behind with a two-state solution on the island. “We believe that we can leave ...

One of the mantras within President Donald Trump’s administration since he took office in January has been “promises made, promises kept” even as many of his campaign pledges remain ...

The US economy contracted in the first quarter, weighed down by a deluge of goods imported by businesses eager to avoid higher costs, underscoring the disruptive nature of President Donald ...

Turkish opposition political party CHP leader Ozgur Ozel on Wednesday said his country’s government’s policy on Cyprus has “collapsed”. Speaking in a televised interview with Euronews, he reiterated ...

President Vladimir Putin is open to peace in Ukraine and intense work is going on with the United States, but the conflict is so complicated that the rapid progress that ...

Israel said it carried out a warning strike against an extremist group that was preparing to attack Druze in Syria, following through on its pledge to protect the minority group ...

Britain is unprepared for the worsening impacts of climate change such as flooding and extreme heat, the country’s independent climate advisers said on Wednesday. Britain was battered by widespread ...

A Turkish court has jailed pending trial 18 employees of the Istanbul municipality on corruption charges, state-owned Anadolu and other media reported on Wednesday, amid a crackdown on the opposition and ...

Thousands of Vietnamese celebrated the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday, in what the country’s communist leader said was a “victory of faith”. Celebrations ...