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Thousands of German workers launched nationwide strikes to press for higher wages on Tuesday, compounding woes of companies worried about staying globally competitive as high costs, weak exports and foreign ...

Russia test-fired missiles over distances of thousands of miles on Tuesday to simulate a “massive” nuclear response to an enemy first strike. “Given the growing geopolitical tensions and the emergence ...

Israel’s decision to ban the UN relief agency UNRWA could result in the deaths of more children and represent a form of collective punishment for Gazans if fully implemented, ...

North Korea’s foreign minister arrived in Russia on Tuesday for talks as the Russia-Ukraine war appeared to take a dangerous new turn, with Nato and South Korea expressing alarm ...

Some high-ranking North Korean military officials and troops deployed to Russia for the war in Ukraine might move to the frontline, South Korean lawmakers said on Tuesday after being briefed ...

Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had elected deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed slain secretary general Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air attack on ...

At least 93 Palestinians were killed and missing and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on a residential building in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya on Tuesday, the Gaza ...

Republican Donald Trump appealed to religious voters in the southern swing state of Georgia as his campaign distanced itself from racist remarks by supporters that could alienate key voter groups. ...

Israel’s parliament passed a law on Monday to ban the UN relief agency UNRWA from operating inside the country, alarming some of Israel’s Western allies who fear it ...

Thousands of people protested outside Georgia’s parliament on Monday after the governing party won an election marred by reports of voting irregularities which Western powers said must be investigated. ...

Russian forces staged guided bomb attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city on Monday, badly damaging an administrative building and a medical facility and injuring at least 19 people, Ukrainian officials ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel did not receive a proposal that would include the release of four hostages in return for a 48-hour ceasefire in ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing coalition pulled off another regional election win on Monday, near final results from Liguria in the northwest showed on Monday, in a ...

Israel passed a law on Monday banning the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA from operating in the country, legislation that could impact its work in war-torn Gaza. The lawmakers who ...

A tanker carrying about 400,000 barrels of oil departed from Mexico’s Pajaritos port and was on Monday en route to Cuba, where an acute energy crisis has left the island ...

A Washington state ballot box used to collect early votes ahead of the November 5 US election was engulfed in flames on Monday in a suspected arson, which the FBI is ...

The United States warned Iran at the United Nations on Monday that if it undertakes any further aggressive acts against Israel or US personnel in the region “there will be ...

Boeing on Monday launched a stock offering that could raise up to $22 billion as the planemaker looks to strengthen its finances squeezed by an over month-long strike by its workers ...

Trump ally Elon Musk’s move to give away money to voters in the upcoming November 5 presidential election is “totally inappropriate”, US President Joe Biden said on Monday. Musk, the ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier underwent surgery on a cervical lesion over the weekend, his doctor said in a statement shared by Barnier’s office on Monday. The operation went ...

Iran is at a disadvantage that can be exploited in the future after Israeli airstrikes over the weekend, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Monday. “You have conducted accurate ...

The death toll from Israeli attacks in Lebanon has risen to 2,710, with 12,592 others injured since October 2023, Lebanon’s health ministry reported on Monday. Sunday’s toll was 38 deaths and 124 injuries.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to the Security Council on Monday for its support to help protect civilians in war-torn Sudan, but said conditions are not right for deployment ...

Iran executes Iranian-German national after terrorism conviction, state media says Iran executed Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd after he was convicted of carrying out terrorist attacks, Iranian state media said on ...