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Russia launched a new barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting gas infrastructure and other energy facilities in western regions in the latest strike on the country’...

Firefighters held the line against two massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles for the past week, even as desert winds and a parched landscape presented extremely hazardous ...

Negotiators were near to hammering out the final details of a ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday after marathon talks in Qatar, and the US and Egyptian leaders promised to stay ...

South Korean authorities arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over insurrection allegations, with the embattled leader saying he agreed to comply with what he called an illegal probe ...

No decision will be made for at least a couple of years on whether Britain will go ahead with a central bank digital currency for the general public, the Bank ...

European Council President Antonio Costa will invite Lebanon’s new President Joseph Aoun to Brussels, Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. Letymbiotis said President Nikos Christodoulides had encouraged ...

In accordance with UN resolutions, Spain has reaffirmed its support for attempts to reopen discussions on the Cyprus problem to create a bizonal, bicommunal federation. The promise was made on ...

Francina Armengol, the chairwoman of Spain’s Congress of deputies, the lower of its two legislative chambers, on Tuesday said her country and Cyprus must “join forces” with the European ...

Russia’s vast Arctic oil business is facing major disruption from US sanctions on its tankers and depots, stranding crude supplies previously snapped up by Asian buyers in storage, according ...

Moscow said on Tuesday that Ukraine had fired six U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and at least 146 drones into Russia in an attack ...

Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK is Britain’s second most popular political party and sits just one percentage point behind the governing Labour Party, according to an ...

Paving the way for Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to run for a fourth term in office is “on our agenda”, the spokesman for the president’s ruling party said on ...

Negotiators were meeting in Qatar on Tuesday hoping to finalise a plan to end the war in Gaza, after U.S. President Joe Biden indicated a ceasefire and hostage release ...

Los Angeles firefighters on Tuesday braced for the return of dry, intense winds that could recharge two monstrous wildfires that have already killed at least 24 people, leveled entire neighborhoods and ...

The Greek tourism sector concluded 2024 with record-breaking performance, setting an optimistic tone for the future. Although official data from the Bank of Greece is expected in the coming months, a ...

US banks will probably report stronger earnings this week, fueled by robust dealmaking and trading in the fourth quarter. The six biggest US lenders have benefited from a resurgence in ...

The number of job vacancies in London’s financial sector dropped by almost a fifth in the last three months of 2024 compared with the previous quarter, to its lowest level ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said he would sign a bilateral security deal with Britain as well as a strategic partnership accord as he headed to London for an ...

NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Monday the alliance’s military capability targets may require members to spend as much as 3.7% of GDP on defence but this figure could be ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has postponed the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations for a second time because of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, ...

Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year. ...

President Joe Biden said on Monday his administration would cancel student loans for more than 150,000 borrowers, targeting those who attended schools that defrauded students, those with permanent disabilities and public ...

Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, won enough support to become Lebanon’s next prime minister after a majority of lawmakers backed him for the post ...

Climate activists from Just Stop Oil painted over the grave of British naturalist Charles Darwin at London’s Westminster Abbey on Monday. Two activists entered Westminster Abbey – Britain’s site ...