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Ukraine and Russia carried out a new exchange of prisoners of war on Monday, with the two sides bringing home a combined total of more than 300 former captives. Kyiv brought ...

Tourists in Barcelona’s historic centre were enjoying the last days of gas-powered patio heaters before their use is banned in 2025 because of their carbon emissions. The ban will come ...

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. president-elect liable for sexually abusing ...

Russia pumped gas on Monday to European customers via Ukraine for one of the last days before a key transit deal expires at the end of the year, marking the ...

Yahya Al-Batran woke up in the early hours of Sunday morning to find his wife, Noura trying to wake their newborn twin sons Jumaa and Ali as they lay together ...

Prosecutors in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad filed an indictment on Monday against 13 people in connection with the collapse of a railway station awning last month that killed 15 ...

Iran confirmed the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala for “violating the laws of the Islamic Republic”, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported on Monday. Sala, 29, who works for ...

Chemicals factories founded or owned by some of Russia’s wealthiest men are supplying ingredients to plants that manufacture explosives used by Moscow’s military during the war in Ukraine, ...

The United States on Monday announced nearly $6 billion in additional military and budget assistance for Ukraineas President Joe Biden uses his final weeks in office to surge aid to Kyiv ...

The head of the World Health Organization on Monday called for an end to attacks on hospitals in Gaza after Israel struck one and raided another in the past few ...

Turkish sporting giants Besiktas JK on Sunday night named Cypriot businessman Serdal Adali as the club’s new chairman. Adali secured a club record total of 8,901 votes among the club’...

South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang-mok on Monday ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country’s entire airline operation as investigators worked to identify victims and find out ...

Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and ...

US billionaire Elon Musk drew criticism from German politicians from the government and opposition on Sunday for an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) which ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Sunday said it was “deeply saddened” by the aeroplane crash which occurred in South Korea earlier in the day and killed almost 180 people. It offered its “...

THE HORRORS inflicted upon Gaza in the last 15 months have invoked an urge to do something to feel like one is not simply a bystander and is on the right ...

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday that a passenger plane that crashed last week, killing 38 people, had been damaged by shooting from the ground in Russia, and he said ...

Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion (€13.4bn) regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region and the rest of the country. The ...

Croats are voting to elect a new president on Sunday in a race that incumbent President Zoran Milanovic is leading in the polls. Around 3.8 million Croats are eligible to cast ...

Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday, the first time he ...

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, was sworn in as president of Georgia on Sunday amid a political crisis after the government froze European Union application talks in ...

The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it ...

Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Saturday it would suspend gas exports to Moldova from 5am GMT on January 1 due to unpaid debt by Moldova.It said the company reserved ...

Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese security official and a war ...