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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised “sincere efforts” by the U.S. to end the war in Ukraine and floated the prospect of a nuclear arms deal ahead of ...

A second volunteer firefighter has died after battling a wildfire in the northern Spanish province of Leon, while police arrested a man for allegedly starting a separate blaze as the ...

Ukrainian troops have stabilised the battlefield in an area of eastern Ukraine where Russian forces had made a sudden push this week to pierce Ukrainian defences, the regional governor said ...

Kuwait’s health ministry said 63 people had suffered methanol poisoning from contaminated alcoholic drinks in the five days to Wednesday, resulting in 13 deaths and 21 cases of blindness or impaired vision. ...

Turkey will provide weapons systems and logistical tools to Syria under a military cooperation accord signed on Wednesday, a Turkish Defence Ministry source said, adding that Ankara would also train ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the United States was making “sincere efforts” to halt the war in Ukraine and suggested Moscow and Washington could agree a nuclear ...

Israeli forces demolished houses in eastern areas of Gaza City overnight, killing at least 11 people in aerial and tank fire, local health authorities said, as the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas ...

Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced work would start on a long-delayed settlement that would divide the West Bank and cut it off from East Jerusalem, a move his ...

The Bank of England has lowered slightly to 115 billion pounds ($155 billion) its estimate of the net loss that Britain’s finance ministry will have to pay to cover the central ...

President Donald Trump threatened “severe consequences” if Russia’s Vladimir Putin does not agree to peace in Ukraine but also said on Wednesday that a meeting between them could swiftly ...

Boxes of Gaza-bound aid turned back by Israel on Sunday languished atop a truck and flatbed trailer parked metres from its border with Egypt, as exasperated drivers and UN officials ...

Ukrainian and European leaders pursued last-ditch efforts on Wednesday to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump not to strike a Ukraine peace deal with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, which they ...

Wildfires fanned by a heatwave and strong winds continued to rage across southern Europe on Wednesday, burning houses, farms and factories and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and ...

Britain is seeing more violent threats to kill or harm young women and girls aged 16-25, with incidents of strangulation and suffocation also increasing, leading domestic abuse charity Refuge said ...

The Kurdish YPG militia, which spearheads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), should stop “playing for time” and abide by its integration agreement with the Syrian government, Turkey’...

Russia said on Wednesday that its stance on ending the war in Ukraine has not changed since President Vladimir Putin set out his conditions last year: the full withdrawal of ...

Militant group Hamas’ chief negotiator held talks with Egyptian mediators over a potential ceasefire in the Gaza war on Wednesday while Israel struck the territory’s main city prior to ...

Firefighters battled multiple wildfires across Greece on Wednesday, including blazes threatening villages and towns near the western city of Patras and on two tourist islands. Fires have burned houses, farms ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has scaled back a key US government report on human rights worldwide, dramatically softening criticism of some countries that have been strong partners of the ...

Britain’s jobs market has weakened again, official data showed, with payrolls falling for a sixth month and vacancies dropping further, but wage growth stayed strong, underscoring why the Bank ...

Friday’s Alaska summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “is a listening exercise for the president,” the White House said on Tuesday, tempering expectations for ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia on Tuesday that he has significant concerns about patterns of certain forms of sexual violence by their armed and security forces, ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he would reject any Russian proposal to pull Ukrainian troops out of the eastern Donbas region as it would deprive Kyiv of defensive lines ...

The US on Tuesday rejected the “Net-Zero Framework” proposal by the International Maritime Organisation, which is aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions from the international shipping sector, and threatened ...