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Australia will spend A$600 million ($395 million) on defence reserve recruitment and extending a cash bonus to retain troops as the centre-left Albanese government seeks to overcome workforce shortages, officials are ...

Danielle Trenney, a 39-year-old project manager from western Pennsylvania, is so anxious about the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday that she decided to put up a Christmas tree early ...

Turkey dismissedthe pro-Kurdish mayors of three southeastern cities on Monday for alleged ties to Kurdish militants, just two weeks after President Tayyip Erdogan’s main ally made a proposal for ...

Spain is deploying 7,500 troops to its eastern region hit by devastating floods, the government said on Monday in the face of rising discontent over the response to the catastrophe that ...

A presidential election unlike any other in U.S. history enters its last full day on Monday with Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and their campaigns scrambling to get supporters to ...

Quincy Jones, the man known simply as “Q,” was a huge influence on American music in his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and reshaped pop ...

Democrat Kamala Harris made her closing pitch for the U.S. presidency at a historically Black church and to Arab Americans in battleground Michigan on Sunday, while her Republican rival ...

Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it was cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with the main U.N. relief organization for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) since 1967, the ...

By Aidan Hehir “Where is the UN?” is a question that has often been asked since the start of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. As the death toll rises ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos pledged to further deepen relations between Cyprus and Qatar after meeting the country’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani on Sunday. He ...

Europe will need to rethink its support of Ukraine if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday, as the continent “...

Unprecedented air pollution levels in Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore prompted authorities to take emergency measures on Sunday, including issuing work-from-home mandates and closing primary schools. The city held ...

Moldovans were voting on Sunday in a presidential election that has been overshadowed by meddling allegations and could see Moscow claw back influence in the country at a time when ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared on the “Saturday Night Live” TV comedy show on Saturday, adding a surprise jolt to the U.S. presidential election just three days before ...

Iran’s leadership and allies are bracing for what they would regard as a dreadful outcome of the imminent U.S. presidential election: A return to power of Donald Trump. ...

Greece’s anti-terrorism unit has accused three people of participating in a terrorist group, following a bomb explosion which killed a 36-year-old man and seriously hurt a woman in an ...

A 5.48 metre (18 ft) Australian crocodile that held the world record as the largest crocodile in captivity has died, a wildlife sanctuary said on Saturday. He was thought to be more ...

The situation in the northern Gaza Strip is “apocalyptic” as Israel pursues a military offensive against Hamas militants in the area, top United Nations officials warned. “The entire Palestinian population ...

Kemi Badenoch became the Conservatives’ new leader and the first black woman to a head a major British political party on Saturday, after winning a leadership contest on a promise ...

he deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 211 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of ...

Dmitry Medvedev, a senior Russian security official who served as Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012, warned the United States on Saturday to take Russia’s nuclear warnings seriously to avoid ...

Democrats are readying a rapid-fire response to flood social media and the airwaves with calls for calm and patience with vote-counting should Donald Trump try to prematurely claim election victory, ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that the United States and Israel will “undoubtedly receive a crushing response” for what they do against his country, state media ...

By Carol Johnson, University of Adelaide Having a female presidential candidate has made gender obvious in this US presidential election, even to many who normally neglect its role. The specific ...