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Turkey’s central bank raised its year-end inflation forecast to 24 per cent on Friday from 21 per cent previously and Governor Fatih Karahan said the bank is “not on autopilot mode” ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Israel and Arab states in mid-February, a State Department official said, making his first trip to the Middle East after a widely ...

Authorities are searching for a Bering Air passenger plane with 10 people on board that was reported missing while en route from Unalakleet to Nome, Alaska’s Department of Public Safety ...

British lawmakers said on Thursday that the UK markets watchdog should ditch already softened proposals to publicly name some companies under investigation if it cannot properly balance consumer benefits with ...

Russia’s defence ministry said its troops repelled Ukrainian forces who on Thursday mounted a counteroffensive in Russia’s western Kursk region. The Russian report came six months to the ...

The U.S. Justice Department under President Donald Trump is disbanding an effort started after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine to enforce sanctions and target oligarchs close to the Kremlin. ...

The Netherlands has sent an extradition request to Sierra Leone for convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, the Dutch justice minister said on Thursday, adding that he hoped to find the ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that his country “will not be bullied,” days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would cut off funding to South ...

Two years after the deadliest and most destructive earthquake in modern Turkish history, hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced, with many still living in temporary housing, as rebuilding efforts ...

Former Spanish football federation boss Luis Rubiales’ unsolicited kiss killed Jenni Hermoso’s joy at winning the women’s World Cup in 2023 and she was overwhelmed, crying and exhausted in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday Israel would hand over Gaza to the United States after fighting was over and the enclave’s population was already resettled elsewhere, ...

British households’ expectations for inflation ended a run of increases and fell in January, according to a monthly survey published by Citi and YouGov on Thursday. The survey showed expectations ...

The Bank of England cut interest rates on Thursday as it halved its growth outlook for this year and said a jump in inflation will prove temporary, while two officials ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to exclude transgender girls and women from female sports, a directive that supporters say will restore fairness but critics say ...

London’s Grenfell Tower, which was engulfed in flames more than seven years ago in a disaster that killed 72 people, will be demolished, bereaved families and survivors said on Thursday. ...

Preparations for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are at an “advanced stage”, Russian state news agency RIA quoted a senior lawmaker as ...

Swedish police found three rifles near the body of the gunman amid a chaotic scene they described as an “inferno” after 11 people were killed and several wounded in the country’...

Israel’s defence minister ordered the army on Thursday to prepare a plan to allow the “voluntary departure” of residents from Gaza, Israeli media said, after President Trump drew widespread ...

The Bank of England looks set to cut interest rates on Thursday for only the third time since just after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as it juggles ...

Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws on Thursday, including mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences and displaying hate symbols, in a bid to tackle a recent surge in antisemitism. The ...

President Donald Trump’s top aides staunchly defended his push to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza and have the US take over the war-ruined enclave, but they also backed away ...

British services firms lost momentum last month as a looming rise in employer taxes led to the fastest job cuts in four years but price pressures remained strong, according to ...

A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday became the second one nationally to block Donald Trump’s administration from implementing the Republican president’s executive order aimed at curtailing birthright ...

The Philippine lower house on Wednesday impeached Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of the country’s firebrand former leader, setting the stage for a rare, high-profile trial in the ...