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President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to make English the official US language, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Friday. The source did not provide ...

Italy’s government on Friday adopted a law paving the way for a return to nuclear energy almost 40 years after it was banned by referendum, in what Prime Minister Giorgia ...

Turkey’s economy grew 3.0 per cent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2024, bringing full-year growth to 3.2 per cent, official data showed on Friday, exceeding forecasts despite the weight of high ...

Clashes broke out in Athens on Friday as hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Greece to demand justice on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest-ever train crash, ...

At least 41 people remain trapped under snow after an avalanche struck the Indian Himalayan mountain state of Uttarakhand, authorities said on Friday, following recent heavy snowfall in the region. The ...

Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of ...

An Israeli delegation in Cairo aims to negotiate to extend the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal by an additional 42 days, two Egyptian security sources said on Friday. Hamas ...

Eurobank has announced a cash dividend of 10.5 cents per share and a €288 million share buyback programme as part of its financial results for 2024. The bank’s three-year plan aims for ...

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in cities and towns across Greece on Friday to demand justice on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest-ever train crash, and striking ...

A California federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ordering the U.S. Department of Defense and other federal agencies to carry out the mass firings of ...

US President Donald Trump said his proposed 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods will take effect on Tuesday, along with an extra 10% duty on Chinese imports because deadly drugs are ...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a minerals deal with Ukraine is the security guarantee Kyiv needs against Russia, brushing aside a plea from British Prime Minister Keir Starmer ...

Authorities in the French overseas territory of Reunion on Friday morning issued a “purple alert”, the highest level of threat warning, as a cyclone with gusts exceeding 200 kph (124 mph) approached ...

Senior figures from Germany’s conservatives and the Social Democrats will begin exploratory talks on forming a coalition government on Friday, sources at the parties told Reuters. Friedrich Merz, leader ...

Greece’s worst rail disaster in 2023 was caused by chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, investigators said on Thursday. On February 28, 2023, a passenger ...

Turkey’s jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to ...

President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet at the White House on Thursday for their first in-person visit since the Republican leader upended U.S. policy ...

Militant group Hamas said on Thursday it was ready to begin talks on the second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza after several hundred Palestinians were released from Israeli jails ...

Greece’s worst rail disaster in 2023 was caused by chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, investigators said on Thursday. On February 28, 2023, a passenger ...

Serhat Akpinar, the founding rector of Kyrenia’s Girne American University and current Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ for ruling coalition party the DP, on Thursday defended the legality of the studies ...

Gene Hackman, the intense character actor who won two Oscars in a more than 60-year career, has died alongside his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog at home, the ...

Transgender service members will be separated from the US military unless they receive an exemption, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court on Wednesday, essentially banning them from joining ...

Washington’s push to swiftly end the conflict in Ukraine has sparked speculation that Western brands may want to return to Russia, but from fashion to cars, the markets they ...