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At least nine people were killed and five wounded by an Israeli strike on a residential building in Nabatieh city in southern Lebanon, state news agency NNA said on Saturday. ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for parties to the conflict in Gaza to provide concrete assurances guaranteeing humanitarian pauses in order for a polio vaccine campaign to ...

Hurricane Ernesto churned towards Bermuda on Friday as a powerful Category 2 storm likely to produce a foot (30 cm) of rainfall over the weekend and trigger life-threatening flooding and storm surges ...

Kamala Harris outlined proposals to cut taxes for most Americans, ban “price gouging” by grocers and boost affordable housing on Friday in her first major economy-focused speech as the Democratic ...

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it had summoned Italy’s ambassador in Moscow over what it said was “illegal border crossing” by a team of correspondents from ...

A pilot died on Friday after the Fouga Magister jet which he was flying during an airshow in Lavandou, southern France, crashed into the Mediterranean sea, said French authorities. “The ...

Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha were paused on Friday with negotiators to meet again next week seeking an agreement to end fighting between Israel and Hamas and free remaining hostages, ...

A fistfight broke out in Turkey’s parliament on Friday when an opposition deputy was attacked after calling for his colleague, jailed on charges of organising anti-government protests but since ...

Thailand’s parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle ...

Immigration tops the list of issues that Britons consider most important for the first time since 2016 – when Britain voted to leave the European Union – following riots this month targeting Muslims ...

A forest fire in Turkey’s western coastal province of Izmir, fanned by strong winds, is near residential areas, forcing some people to be evacuated, the local governor said on ...

British retail sales edged up in July, boosted in part by extra spending due to the men’s Euros soccer championship, official figures showed on Friday, after an unusually cool ...

Dozens of Israeli settlers, some wearing masks, attacked a Palestinian village near the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, burning cars and killing at least one person, authorities ...

An influential aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West and the U.S.-led NATO alliance had been directly involved in planning Ukraine’s surprise ...

The number of companies that set up base in Abu Dhabi’s financial centre ADGM increased by 31 per cent in the first half of the year as the likes of ...

Ukraine will need $20 billion in investments to develop its renewable power sector under a plan which seeks to boost its share in the country’s energy mix to 27 per cent ...

Multiple people face federal charges and at least one has been arrested related to an investigation into the death of “Friends” star Matthew Perry in Los Angeles nearly a year ...

Ukraine’s top commander said on Thursday Kyiv had set up a military commandant’s office in the occupied part of Russia’s Kursk region where he said his forces ...

In Ain Ebel, a southern Lebanese village near the Israeli border, more than a thousand people gathered for a solemn procession to commemorate the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on ...

A new round of Gaza ceasefire talks was underway in the Qatari capital Doha on Thursday afternoon, an official briefed on the meeting told Reuters, with Israel’s spy chief ...

Investigators suspect a faulty power cable may have caused Greece’s worst wildfire this year, said sources close to a probe over the blaze that killed one woman and torched 10,000 ...

A Singapore court on Thursday charged two former bankers for helping a group of foreigners who were convicted of laundering $2.2 billion last year in the biggest such financial crime in ...

Ukraine said on Wednesday its forces had advanced further into Russia’s Kursk region in the biggest foreign incursion into Russia since World War Two, posing a dilemma for President ...

A surge in demand for gold from inflation-stricken Turkey boosted exports of jewellery from Italy’s industrial district of Arezzo in Tuscany, data showed this week, offsetting a drop in ...