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British grocery price inflation jumped to 4.1 per cent for the four weeks to May 18, its highest level since February last year, adding to pressure on consumers already facing higher household ...

Former President Donald Trump’s economic agenda was dealt a pair of significant setbacks this week, as a US trade court struck down his sweeping tariff orders and Elon Musk ...

UniCredit has signed a derivatives agreement that paves the way for it to nearly double its stake in Greece’s Alpha Bank, increasing its shareholding to close to 20 per cent. ...

Russia has proposed holding the next round of direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2 with a view to achieving a sustainable peace settlement, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel had eliminated Hamas Gaza chief Mohammad Sinwar, one of its most wanted targets and the younger brother of the deceased ...

Greece has prepared legislation that will introduce tougher penalties for rejected asylum seekers and speed up returns to their home countries, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. The Mediterranean ...

Italy’s mafia is turning away from violent turf wars to collaborate in drug trafficking, prostitution rings and money laundering, the national anti-mafia agency (DIA) said in an annual report ...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday reaffirmed his wish to see a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and said there were no double standards in French policy towards the ...

The United States and Russia quarrelled in public on Wednesday over the intensifying Ukraine war after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that President Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire” ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered its missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student and exchange visitor visa applicants as the State Department prepares to expand social ...

The International Monetary Fund nudged up its growth forecast for Britain this year in a regular assessment of the country’s economy, and it urged finance minister Rachel Reeves to ...

Turkey’s economy is expected to have grown by 2.3 per cent in the first quarter and by 3 per cent for 2025 as a whole, lower than government forecasts, a Reuters poll ...

Israel’s credit rating is unlikely to be upgraded until the war in Gaza ends, since the conflict weighs on the Israeli economy and its fiscal position, S&P ...

One of the three Argentine judges presiding in the trial of seven members of Diego Maradona’s medical team charged with negligent homicide in the soccer star’s 2020 death stepped ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill requiring Apple and Alphabet’s Google to verify the age of users of their app stores, putting the second-most-populous ...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire” by refusing to engage in ceasefire talks with Kyiv as Russian forces made gains in Ukraine’s ...

Elon Musk on Tuesday postponed by a few hours an expected update on SpaceX’s plan to launch missions to Mars, saying it will take place after a Starship test ...

The Israeli military said on Tuesday that its forces did not direct aerial gunfire towards an aid distribution centre set up by a US-backed aid foundation in the Gaza city ...

King Charles, speaking during a symbolic visit to show support for Canada at a time it has faced U.S. annexation threats, on Tuesday expressed his love for Canada and ...

Pope Leo XVI welcomed Italy’s newly crowned Serie A champions Napoli to the Vatican on Tuesday, joking about his own football allegiances. Napoli won their fourth Scudetto on Friday ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered his most severe rebuke of Israel to date on Tuesday, criticising massive air strikes on Gaza as no longer justified by the need to fight ...

Russia’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Ukraine, backed by certain European countries, had taken several ‘provocative steps’ aimed at derailing Moscow-initiated direct peace talks with Kyiv. The first ...

Four people were “very, very ill in hospital” after sustaining injuries when a car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool fans during a Premier League title parade, the city’s ...

Two people were killed and nine others, including three teenagers, injured in a shooting at Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park on Memorial Day, police said on Tuesday. All the nine injured ...