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French teenagers blockaded some high schools and prepared to rally again on Thursday after the government promised to address their grievances about teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings but gave ...

British police on Thursday said they had charged a member of the Royal Navy with offences under the National Security Act for allegedly obtaining protected information and preparing to disclose ...

Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old Spanish woman whose dramatic eviction last month sparked mass housing protests that led to an early election, has died, the Madrid tenants’ union said on Wednesday, ...

Three people have been killed in attacks on Saudi airports, the country’s civil aviation authorities said, as fighting intensified in Yemen between the Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces. ...

Britain said on Thursday its nearly 200-year-old consulate in Jerusalem would remain operating at a smaller scale, renamed as the “UK Mission” in the city, after Israel ordered it shut ...

Russia pounded Ukraine with waves of missiles and drones in one of its most “vile strikes” on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, killing at least 32 people, including children, and damaging ...

Cornell University’s administration and president are facing mounting pressure over the school’s handling of an alleged 2024 gang rape that has thrust it into the national spotlight and set ...

Saudi Arabia has launched an air accident probe following last week’s cockpit stabbing on a flydubai jet, as experts examine any fallout for aviation safety alongside a separate UAE-led ...

Lawyers for Christa Pike will ask a judge on Wednesday to order prison officials to let them inspect the syringes and other equipment used in Tennessee’s failed attempt to ...

The French government said on Wednesday it was pausing the use of stun grenades in its policing of student protests, after a 15-year-old boy’s hand was blown off during ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that “strong and model NATO ally” Greece and the United States are launching new counterterrorism information sharing between their law enforcement ...

Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese displaced by this year’s war with Israel, two people with direct knowledge of the transfer said, the first significant aid ...

Transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz deemed illegal by Iran will soon be closed, an adviser to the Revolutionary Guards’ Commander told the semi-official Fars News Agency on Wednesday, ...

The leader of Britain’s opposition Conservatives, Kemi Badenoch, pledged on Wednesday to abolish inheritance tax on family homes and let couples pass on an additional £1 million without incurring the ...

A man accused of murdering former British minister Ann Widdecombe appeared in court on Wednesday charged with a terrorism offence which includes trying to break into the home of Nigel ...

Israelis will on Wednesday mark three years since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, triggering a military assault that destroyed much of Gaza, where conditions remain dire despite a year-old ceasefire ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that France’s test launch of a nuclear-capable missile showed that Europe was building its defence identity around confrontation with Russia, describing the strategy as ...

The mayor of Izmir, Turkey’s third-largest city and a bastion of its secular opposition, joined President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party (AKP) on Wednesday, amid a crackdown on ...

US soldiers stationed on Japan’s Okinawa have been given a month-long curfew and banned from drinking alcohol while they undergo discipline training after a Marine was alleged to have ...

Bulgaria has halted its search for the missing crew of a ship that sank after being hit by a drone on Tuesday about 70 nautical miles (130 km) off its coast, Vice-Admiral ...

More than two-thirds of refugee and migrant children who reached Europe via Mediterranean and Balkan routes last year were unaccompanied, and many experienced exploitation, a report by UN agencies showed ...

Two South Korean megachurches are investigating suspected cyberattacks that may have exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of congregants, with evidence suggesting AI tools may have been used ...

Brussels is considering taxing big US tech companies through a broad levy on large corporations in an effort to raise revenues for the EU while avoiding a backlash from the ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is visiting Athens at a time of heightened geopolitical challenges, instability and shifting regional dynamics. The agenda for his meetings is broad and includes ...