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AA powerful storm clobbered Washington state on Wednesday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people while disrupting road travel and causing at least two deaths and two injuries. ...

U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said he will travel to Israel on Wednesday to try to secure a ceasefire ending the war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah group after declaring additional ...

Israeli forces killed at least 19 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including a rescue worker, health officials said, as troops deepened an incursion along the territory’s northern edge, ...

President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday cited the central bank’s year-end inflation forecast of 44 per cent and said Turkey will not let inflation crush people when asked about an expected ...

British inflation jumped by more than expected last month to rise back above the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target and underlying price growth gathered speed too, showing why ...

Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon ambitions to join NATO, five ...

Ships docked at Greek ports, and railway and bus services were disrupted on Wednesday as transport workers, hospital doctors, school teachers and construction workers joined a nationwide strike to protest ...

The United States shut its embassy in Kyiv on Wednesday due to “specific information of a potential significant air attack” and told its citizens in Ukraine to be ready to ...

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance to protect immigrants living in the city, a policy that would prohibit the use of city resources and personnel ...

Britons started new businesses last year at the slowest rate since 2010, a potential warning sign for longer-term economic growth and productivity, according to official data published this week. The number ...

Russia said its forces shot down five of six missiles fired at a military facility in the Bryansk region. Debris of one hit the facility, starting a fire that was ...

The case in which Donald Trump was convicted on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star should be paused in light of his election victory to ...

The United States was not surprised by Russia lowering its threshold for a nuclear strike and does not plan to adjust its own nuclear posture in response, the White House ...

Spain will legalise about 300,000 undocumented immigrants per year over the next three years as it seeks to expand its labour force in the face of an ageing population, Migration Minister ...

A senior U.S. mediator said on Tuesday there was a “real opportunity” to end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and that gaps were narrowing, signalling progress in Washington’...

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer behind the country’s worst peacetime atrocity, should not be released and remains dangerous, a prosecutor said, as Breivik appeared in court on ...

President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the United States on Tuesday, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike just days after the administration of Joe Biden reportedly allowed Ukraine ...

Ukraine marked 1,000 days on Tuesday since Russia’s full-scale invasion, with weary troops battling on numerous fronts, Kyiv besieged by drone and missile strikes, and officials preparing for Donald Trump ...

Britain’s biggest retailers have written to finance minister Rachel Reeves to warn her that last month’s budget will make both higher prices and job losses a certainty and ...

Russia has begun mass production of mobile bomb shelters that can protect against a variety of man-made threats and natural disasters including radiation and shockwaves, the emergency ministry’s research ...

The leader of the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after a deal allowing for the expansion of Russian business in the republic led to mass protests ...

Tens of thousands of New Zealanders rallied in front of parliament on Tuesday in one of the country’s largest ever protests to oppose a bill, which opponents say seeks ...

Lebanon and Hezbollah have agreed to a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire with Israel with some comments on the content, a top Lebanese official told Reuters, describing the effort ...

Members of the United Nations Security Council called on Monday for a surge in assistance to reach people in need in Israeli-basieged Gaza, warning that the situation in the Palestinian ...