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Ukraine’s parliament ratified a loan agreement with the European Union on Thursday, paving the way for €90 billion in financing and allowing the government to channel record funds to defence ...

Russia signed an agreement on Thursday with Kazakhstan to build the first nuclear power plant in Central Asia’s largest country at a cost of about $16.5 billion, partially covered by ...

The US Embassy in Kyiv remains open, it said on Thursday, denying reports about changes to its operations following warnings from Russia that diplomats and foreigners should leave the Ukrainian ...

Iranians isolated by a long internet shutdown imposed by the authorities during the war with the U.S. and Israel expressed joy as social media came back to life in ...

A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls’ school in a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley overnight, killing 16 students, the government said on Thursday. The fire, whose cause ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Thursday it targeted a U.S. airbase after the U.S. military carried out what a Washington official said were strikes targeting an Iranian ...

US consumer confidence eased in May as worries about ​inflation linked to the war with ‌Iran intensified, offsetting an improvement in households’ perceptions of the labor market, a ​survey showed ...

A hulking metal arena is rising on the White House’s South Lawn as U.S. President Donald Trump pursues a spate of construction projects, and is set to host ...

A German court sentenced Daniela Klette, identified by police as a former member of the extreme-left Red Army Faction, to 13 years in prison on Wednesday for a series of armed ...

Dozens of Palestinians carried the body of Hamas’ armed wing chief through the streets of Gaza City in a funeral procession on Wednesday, a day after Israel killed him as ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he was not yet satisfied on a deal with Iran, adding that the U.S. was not discussing easing sanctions on ...

Norway will come under France’s nuclear umbrella, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told news agency NTB on Wednesday, as concerns grow in Europe over U.S. commitment to the ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged U.S. President Donald Trump to help Ukraine with air defence systems and interceptors as Russia threatens new strikes, saying that ballistic missiles remain Moscow’s “...

Russia said on Wednesday it had warned Armenia it would suspend or terminate the supply of cheap oil, gas and rough diamonds to the South Caucasus country if Yerevan pressed ...

In an Ebola outbreak, hours matter. Yet the response to the deadly and fast-spreading epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is weeks if not months behind – and missing thousands ...

North Korea has tested a mix of tactical ballistic missiles, artillery rockets and AI-guided precision cruise missiles designed for modern warfare under leader Kim Jong Un’s supervision, KCNA state ...

An Iranian anti-ship missile was likely involved in an attack on a cargo ship operated by local shipper HMM 011200.KS in the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month, South Korea’...

The Cyprus branch office of Turkish opposition political party the CHP has sided with Ozgur Ozel, with the party and Turkish politics at large now engulfed by a crisis after ...

Russia has passed a law allowing its central bank and other financial institutions to operate their own defence systems and arm staff to repel drone attacks, a document published by ...

Israel said on Wednesday it had killed Hamas’s newly appointed armed wing chief in Gaza, days after it killed his predecessor, while intensifying military pressure in Gaza and expanding ...

Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, the leftist firebrand who ran Greece at the height of its debt crisis in 2015, has launched a new political party, promising to fight corruption and ...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne ​Mullin said the Trump administration is drawing up plans to stop processing international travelers ‌and cargo at major U.S. airports in “sanctuary cities” ...

A chemical tank imploded and ruptured at a Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in the U.S. state of Washington on Tuesday, resulting in one death and nine injuries, while nine ...

Air defence units in the port of Sevastopol in Russian-occupied Crimea downed over 20 Ukrainian drones early on Wednesday, with Ukraine also using Storm Shadow missiles, the city’s governor said ...