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New opportunities to reset relations between Moscow and Washington have opened up, the influential head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday after Donald Trump declared victory in ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leaders congratulated Donald Trump after he claimed victory in Tuesday’s U.S. presidential election, saying they were ready to work together but ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rapidly congratulated Donald Trump while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightist government celebrated his victory in the US presidential election. Zelenskiy, in a message ...

Reactions from around the world began trickling in on Wednesday as Fox News projected that Republican Donald Trump had won the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which would all but close ...

Yoav Gallant knew he was living on borrowed time as Israel’s Defence Minister after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first attempt to sack him last year failed in the ...

There are 538 Electoral College votes allotted to the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It takes 270 votes to win. Live tracker: US presidential election results The following table shows the ...

Donald Trump secured the U.S. presidency on Wednesday in a comeback victory four years after he was voted out of the White House, as tens of millions of voters ...

Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday, ensuring that Donald Trump’s party will control at least one chamber of ...

Britain’s services sector lost momentum in the run-up to the new government’s first budget in October, with business activity growing at the weakest rate in 11 months and the ...

Nearly three-quarters of voters in Tuesday’s presidential election believe American democracy is under threat, according to national exit poll data from Edison Research, reflecting the deep anxiety that the ...

Investigators searched the offices of US streaming giant Netflix in France and the Netherlands on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering, a French judicial source ...

Thousands of Serbian opposition backers rallied on Tuesday in the northwestern city of Novi Sad in a violent protest over a deadly accident at a local railway station, for which ...

Phony bomb threats that appeared to originate in many cases from Russian email domains targeted polling locations across several US states on Tuesday, the FBI said. “None of the threats ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday, saying he had no trust in him over the management of Israel’s ongoing military operations. Netanyahu ...

Britain increased the risk level of bird flu from medium to high after two different strains of the virus, H5N5 and H5N1, were detected in wild birds in ...

Damages to businesses in towns hit by floods in eastern Spain could rise to over €10 billion, with banks loan exposure to the area worth alone around €20 billion, representatives for local ...

Britain’s Aslef trade union has suspended a planned two-day strike on the London Underground transport network this month following a significantly improved pay offer, the train drivers union said ...

More than 100 patients including children will be transferred out of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a rare medical evacuation from the Palestinian enclave during the Israel-Hamas war, a World ...

Greece is considering setting up a migrant detention facility on the island of Rhodes in the eastern Mediterranean to tackle a rise in arrivals from neighbouring Turkey, Migration Minister Nikos ...

The dizzying presidential contest between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris hurtled toward an uncertain finish on Tuesday as millions of Americans headed to the polls to choose between ...

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven democracies and three key allies said on Tuesday they were gravely concerned by the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia and the ...

The father of a French pupil whose account of the use of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on free speech led to the teacher’s brutal murder ...

After months of campaigning, Tuesday’s presidential election may have come down to the two signature issues that defined Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump from the start: abortion ...

Control of the U.S. Congress is at stake on Tuesday in elections that could flip both the House of Representatives and the Senate, while still leaving Capitol Hill divided ...