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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned what they cast as increasingly aggressive U.S. behaviour on Thursday and pledged to deepen their countries’ already close defence ...

The United States aims to have a floating pier in place off the Gaza Strip coast in the coming days to boost aid deliveries, but Washington is facing the same ...

Armed forces were protecting New Caledonia’s two airports and port after a third night of violent riots that have killed four people, the Pacific Island’s top French official ...

At least one Mondelez (MDLZ.O) investor, Swedish pension fund AP7, will back a resolution calling for the Oreo cookie maker to conduct an independent study of the risks of ...

A small crowd of people gathered in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria square on Wednesday evening to hold a vigil to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was publicly challenged about post-war plans for the Gaza Strip on Wednesday by his own defence chief, who vowed to oppose any long-term military rule ...

EU ambassadors agreed in principle on Wednesday to place four Russian media outlets on its sanctions list, accusing them of propaganda, EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova said ...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on Wednesday accepted CNN’s invitation to face off on June 27 in the candidates’ first 2024 debate, setting up the highest ...

Jurors could be seated as soon as Wednesday to determine whether Democratic U.S. Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey broke the law in what prosecutors have called a years-long ...

Greek police have arrested a Turkish national, the suspected leader of a criminal group wanted by Ankara for a range of crimes including manslaughter, Greek police and intelligence sources said ...

Hundreds of police fanned out across northern France on a massive manhunt for a fugitive gangster known as “The Fly” on Wednesday, a day after he was sprung from a ...

Britain’s King Charles has unveiled the first official portrait of himself since his coronation last May. The portrait by artist Jonathan Yeo depicts Charles against a background of vivid ...

Palestinians commemorated the 1948 “Nakba” or catastrophe, on Wednesday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed of their homes in the war at the birth of the state of ...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico isno longer in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in an assassination attempt when leaving a government meeting on Wednesday, a government minister said. ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy postponed all his foreign trips as the battlefield situation continued to deteriorate on Wednesday and Kyiv said fighting raged in the northeastern border town of Vovchansk in ...

Israeli troops battled militants across Gaza on Wednesday, including in the southern city of Rafah that had been a refuge for civilians, in an upsurge of the more than seven-month ...

France and the Netherlands are seeking European Union sanctions on any financial institution in the world that helps Russia’s military pay for goods or technology for making weapons, according ...

Three people have been killed in unrest in New Caledonia, an official said, as rioting continued and stores and schools remained shut on Wednesday after France’s National Assembly approved ...

Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders said on Wednesday he was very close to an agreement with his prospective right-wing government partners, almost six months after his election victory. With parties divided ...

Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen faced aggressive questioning on Tuesday from the Republican presidential candidate’s defense lawyers, who sought to undermine Cohen’s testimony that Trump was ...

British wages grew by more than expected, according to data published this week, but other figures suggested the labour market is losing some of its inflationary heat, keeping the Bank ...

The judge overseeing U.S. Senator Robert Menendez’s corruption trial struggled on Tuesday to find jurors who said they could fairly assess the New Jersey Democrat’s role in ...

Israeli tanks pushed deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern Gazan border city where more than a million people had been sheltering and stoking ...

Russia’s main task is to achieve victory on the battlefield in Ukraine with the minimal loss of troops, incoming defence minister Andrei Belousov said on Tuesday. Belousov, an economist ...