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South Korea is ready to provide North Korea with relief supplies for damage caused by recent heavy rainfall, South Korea’s Red Cross said on Thursday, marking a rare outreach ...

Signs of a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Belarus on one side and the United States, Germany and Slovenia on the other, multiplied on Thursday but there was no ...

Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 39,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people from their ...

The Bank of England cut interest rates from a 16-year high on Thursday after a narrow vote in favour from policymakers divided over whether inflation pressures had eased sufficiently. Governor ...

The head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza last month, the Israeli military said on Thursday, a day after the group’s ...

A 17-year-old male already in custody has been charged with murder for the deaths of three young girls in a frenzied knife attack in Southport, UK police said on Wednesday, ...

The man accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his accomplices, held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have agreed to ...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump falsely suggested to the country’s largest annual gathering of Black journalists on Wednesday that his Democratic rival Kamala Harris had previously downplayed ...

The Bank of England will not publish rules for implementing tougher global bank capital requirements until after the summer, it said this week, raising questions about whether a July 2025 start ...

Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, preliminary data by the government’s statistical authority showed on Wednesday, driven by a 8.5 ...

Turkey wants to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council by the end of the year, the Turkish trade ministry said on Wednesday, after Ankara ...

Stores were closed and buses not running around much of Venezuela on Wednesday, as tensions over a disputed presidential election and rumors of opposition arrests kept many people home. Socialist ...

Protesters clashed with police near Downing Street in London on Wednesday as Britain faced a second night of demonstrationsfollowing the deaths of three young girls in a frenzied knife attack ...

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but opened the door to reducing borrowing costs as soon as its next meeting in September as inflation continues coming into ...

Despite a spike in tensions in the Middle East, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not currently expect Iran-backed militias to step up attacks against ...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on Wednesday morning, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel and fuelled further concern that the ...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday the bloc could not recognise Venezuela’s election result until all votes were counted and records provided, amid international concerns ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not think a wider war in the Middle East was inevitable and that the United States was seeking to ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office racked up a multi-million euro budget overrun last year as it pulled out the stops on a lavish lobster dinner for Britain’s King ...

Russia launched several waves of drones on Kyiv in what was one of the war’s largest attacks of its kind targeting Ukraine, the military administration of the city said ...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of the morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday, describing the strike as a “severe escalation” ...

The British competition regulator’s ongoing review of supermarket loyalty prices is unlikely to identify widespread evidence of promotions that mislead shoppers, according to a statement by the watchdog. Loyalty ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris held a marginal one-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, closing the gap that opened in the final weeks of ...

At least 85 sick and severely injured Palestinians from Gaza, including 35 children, were evacuated to Abu Dhabi for specialised care, the director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on ...