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The German economy expanded by 0.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 as domestic demand and construction investment helped Europe’s largest economy end a turbulent year on a positive ...

Cuban forces killed four exiles and wounded six others who sailed into Cuban waters aboard a Florida-registered speedboat on Wednesday and opened fire on a Cuban patrol, the Cuban government ...

Iranian gas supplies have resumed to Iraq with a rate of 7 million cubic feet per day, the spokesperson for the Iraqi electricity ministry said on Wednesday. Iraq reported the halt ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump still preferred a diplomatic solution with Iran and that he hoped Iranians took that seriously in their ...

France on Wednesday appointed Christophe Leribault as the new head of the Louvre, bringing in the director of the Palace of Versailles to turn around the world’s most-visited museum ...

Rebuilding Ukraine’s economy will cost an estimated $588 billion over the next decade, the World Bank, United Nations, European Commission and the Ukrainian government said on Monday, a day before ...

Russia has accused Ukraine of trying to obtain a nuclear weapon with help from Britain and France, an allegation Kyiv called an absurd lie. A French foreign ministry spokesperson said ...

A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work last year, two-thirds of them killed by Israel, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Wednesday. ...

Istanbul will overtake Heathrow as Europe’s busiest hub this year or the next, the London airport’s chief executive said, bolstering its case to build a new runway after ...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday she is considering legal action following a comment by tech billionaire Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, that alleged she was connected ...

Most British households will see lower energy bills from April, energy regulator Ofgem said on Wednesday after cutting its price cap by 7 per cent under government measures to ease costs. ...

“Breathe deeply, calm down, and don’t go running to stock up on food and matches,” President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians one month before the Russian tanks rolled across the ...

The New York Police Department is investigating a boisterous snowball fight in a Manhattan park after several officers were hit in the face, dividing the mayor and other city leaders ...

President Donald Trump boasted in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that he had ushered in “the golden age of America,” seeking to project an aura of success ...

Former Norwegian prime minister, Thorbjorn Jagland, was hospitalised last week after an apparent suicide attempt, according to media reports published Tuesday, days after authorities charged him with aggravated corruption linked ...

The Council of the European Union has imposed restrictive measures on eight additional individuals in Russia, according to an official announcement. In its announcement, the Council stated that these individuals ...

Police in Uganda said on Tuesday they had arrested two young women they accuse of involvement in same-sex acts after they were seen “openly kissing” in violation of the country’...

Six in ten Americans including a significant slice of Republicans think President Donald Trump has become erratic as he ages, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll ...

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered the FSB security service to step up protection of Russia’s energy and transport infrastructure in response to Ukrainian attacks that he said were ...

Britain’s privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media platform Reddit 14.47 million pounds for using children’s data unlawfully and potentially exposing them to harmful content. The action comes as ...

British actor and comedian Russell Brand pleaded not guilty in a London court on Tuesday to two additional charges of rape and sexual assault nearly two decades ago. Brand, once ...

A powerful blizzard dropped more than two-and-a-half feet of snow (76.2 cm) across parts of the U.S. Northeast on Monday, bringing travel to a near-standstill for millions of residents as ...

Moroccan football player Achraf Hakimi is to face trial for rape, the defender, who plays for Paris St Germain and the Moroccan national squad, said in a social media post ...

Germany’s Verdi public sector union has called on local transport workers across the country to stage a strike on February 27 and 28 to raise pressure in negotiations on wages and ...