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Wimbledon’s plans to expand the grounds for the world’s oldest and most prestigious Grand Slam tennis tournament cleared another hurdle on Thursday, as campaigners’ attempts to block the ...

Sardar Azmoun, one of Iran’s top footballers, has been expelled from the national team for a perceived act of disloyalty to the government, Iranian media has reported, making it ...

South Korean authorities said on Friday that Iranian attacks on Qatar’s energy facilities raise uncertainty, but downplayed concerns about disruption to its liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply, citing the ...

Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit said on Friday she regretted her friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, seeking to contain one of the biggest scandals to hit the ...

Iran attacked an oil refinery in Kuwait on Friday and Israel killed a spokesman of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran showed no sign ...

Some 65% of Americans believe U.S. President Donald Trump will order troops into a large-scale ground war in Iran and just 7% support that idea, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed ...

A federal arts panel comprised of members appointed by Donald Trump on Thursday unanimously approved a commemorative gold coin featuring his image, the latest effort by the administration to celebrate ...

France’s foreign minister will travel to Israel on Friday, in an unscheduled visit, after visiting Beirut on Thursday as part of efforts to reduce tensions in the region and ...

Nearly 2.8 million people in Greece are currently at risk of poverty or social exclusion following a marginal increase in economic hardship over the past year, according to a report from ...

The Bank of England’s interest rate-setters all voted to keep borrowing ​costs on hold and said they were “ready to act” to see off risks from war in the ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States’ objectives in the war against Iran have not changed since strikes started on February 28. The United States ...

European Union leaders failed to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a summit on Thursday to lift his blockade on a vital €90 billion ($103 billion) EU loan to Ukraine, officials ...

Leading nations in Europe, with Japan, said on Thursday they would act to stabilise energy markets and join “appropriate efforts” to open the Gulf’s oil chokepoint after tit-for-tat strikes ...

Iranian attacks have knocked out 17% of Qatar’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity, causing an estimated $20 billion in lost annual revenue and threatening supplies to Europe and Asia, QatarEnergy’...

The European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council decided on Thursday to maintain its three key interest rates, citing rising uncertainty stemming from the conflict in the Middle East. The council ...

A hacker says they have broken into a US platform for searching law enforcement hotline messages and compromised more than 8 million confidential tips. In a statement posted online, the hacker – ...

Turkey has issued a new notice to airmen (Notam) regarding possible military activities in the airspace above and surrounding the north’s Ercan (Tymbou) airport, following a back-and-forth of Notams ...

Israel reopened the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Thursday after nearly three weeks to allow some wounded Palestinians to leave for treatment, after Gaza medics said Israeli strikes had killed ...

Russian officials promised compensation to farmers in the Novosibirsk region on Thursday, where authorities have ordered thousands of cattle to be culled, sparking Russia’s largest non-political protests since the ...

European Union leaders will attempt to find quick fixes to curb the ​jump in energy prices triggered by the Iran war when they meet for a summit on Thursday, but ...

Global air travel remains severely disrupted after the war in Iran forced the closure of key Middle Eastern hubs including Dubai, Doha and Abu Dhabi, stranding tens of thousands of ...

For a self-described Transatlanticist like German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the language has been unusually blunt. When President Donald Trump asked countries to join a global effort against Iran and deploy ...

Gulf states have requested an urgent debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva over Iran’s strikes on civilians and energy infrastructure across the Middle East, documents ...

U.S. presidential envoy John Coale met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Thursday on his latest mission to try to negotiate the release of political prisoners. Coale has ...