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Two people were injured on Friday in a shooting near a mosque in the Swedish city of Orebro, in what was likely a case of gang-related crime, police said. Both ...

Israel’s far-right national security minister visited prominent Palestinian Marwan Barghouti in jail and told him “you will not win”, a video showed on Friday, a day after another hardline ...

Washington, DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging United States President Donald Trump’s attempt to take control of the district’s police department, in a ...

Foreign fighters and others who joined Syria’s civil war from abroad have petitioned the new Islamist-led government for citizenship, arguing they have earned it after sweeping to power with ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said it was important that Friday’s Russia-US summit in Alaska opened up a path towards a “just peace”, as well as substantive three-way talks between ...

United States President Donald Trump said he would not negotiate on behalf of Ukraine in his Friday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and would let Kyiv decide whether to ...

By Dmitriy Turlyun A flurry of superpower-style signalling from Washington and Moscow over the war in Ukraine heralded the first US-Russian summit in four years, but on the ground in ...

Britain’s King Charles on Friday released a message commemorating the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, which marks the Allied victory over Japan and the end of World War Two, ...

The South Korean government expressed “deep disappointment and regret” over Japanese officials visiting a Tokyo war shrine on Friday and said future relations must be built on Japan showing remorse ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Alaska on Friday to greet a waiting U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of a summit that could determine whether a ceasefire can be ...

Rescuers in Indian Kashmir used shovels and earthmovers to search for survivors under boulders and debris on Friday, a day after sudden floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 60 ...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a deal about his war on Ukraine, and that the threat of sanctions against Russia likely ...

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 ...