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A three-day ceasefire declared by Russia came into effect on Thursday morning with skies over Ukraine’s major cities quiet, in a change from successive nights of heavy attacks by ...

Black smoke billowed from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signalling an inconclusive first vote in the most globally diverse conclave in Roman Catholic Church history. The 133 ...

A blast was heard in Pakistan’s Lahore city on Thursday, broadcaster Geo TV and a Reuters witness said, a day after Indian strikes on multiple targets in the country ...

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority is seeking feedback on a potential overhaul of mortgage issuance and advice rules, with a view to simplifying responsible lending guidance and stimulating demand in ...

Walt Disney (DIS.N) announced plans on Wednesday to open a Disney theme park in United Arab Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi in collaboration with regional developer Miral Group, representing its ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said he would push for European Union (EU) sanctions against Syria to not be renewed in June. Macron made the comments as he hosted Syrian President ...

The United States has pushed some nations facing tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump to approve Elon Musk’s Starlink, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing State Department cables. ...

World Central Kitchen announced in a post on X on Wednesday it has halted work in the Gaza Strip as they ran out of supplies, adding that their work cannot ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a reset in French-German relations to help Europe overcome the “enormous” security and economic challenges it faced during his first trip abroad since taking ...

A Greek court found a 20-year old man guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday over the 2023 death of a policeman hit by a flare during clashes with hooligans at a volleyball ...

The growth of AI will increase the number and sophistication of cyberattacks on Britain, senior minister Pat McFadden said on Wednesday. British companies, public bodies and institutions have been hit ...

After months of negotiations, Bulgaria and Greece have signed a five-year water deal, the Bulgarian foreign ministry confirmed on Wednesday, a decision that prompted relief among Greek farmers anxious about ...

Former U.S. President Joe Biden said his successor Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia is a form of “modern-day appeasement” that will never ...

At least 48 people were killed on Wednesday in Israeli airstrikes on a school that housed families displaced by the conflict and which was located close to a crowded market and ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope were locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, sequestered from the world to elect the man they ...

Ukraine attacked Moscow with drones for a third day on Wednesday forcing most of the Russian capital’s airports to close just as Chinese President Xi Jinping was due to ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited the White House on Tuesday for his first talks with Donald Trump and bluntly told the U.S. president that Canada would never be ...

The US trade deficit widened to a record high in March as businesses boosted imports of goods ahead of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which dragged gross domestic product ...

Britain’s services sector, accounting for much of the economy, shrank in April for the first time since October 2023 and at the fastest pace in more than two years, according ...

India hit Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir with missiles on Wednesday and Pakistan vowed to retaliate saying it shot down five Indian aircraft, in the worst clash in more than two ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz was elected chancellor by parliament on Tuesday in a second round of voting after a humiliating and unprecedented defeat on the first attempt, getting his ...

By Susanna Twidale British naturalist David Attenborough says there is hope for the future of the planet’s oceans in a new film premiering later on Tuesday that sets out ...

Ukraine has detained a gang, including two border guard officers, suspected of charging men about $15,000 dollars each to get them out of the country to dodge the military draft, law ...

The official coronation portrait of Britain’s King Charles was made public on Tuesday, two years after he was crowned, in a tradition dating back more than 400 years to a ...