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The US State Department has waded into a British political storm that has erupted over the murder of a student in England, condemning what it called “ideological conditioning and two-tiered ...

Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana late on Thursday in the largest protest this week against a planned luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive part of the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in which he proposed the two leaders meet to agree an end to more than four ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposals for peace in Ukraine could end the fighting, but said Kyiv needed to compromise — and that ...

Hundreds of Libyan demonstrators blocked off the office of the U.N. refugee agency in the capital Tripoli on Thursday during a protest against migrants who have travelled to the ...

Several staff members were injured when the nose gear of a Boeing 787 jetliner unexpectedly collapsed at a gate at Frankfurt airport on Thursday, its operator Lufthansa said. “Passengers had not ...

A Turkish court sentenced Fenerbahce Chairman Sadettin Saran to 2-1/2 years in prison for inciting illegal betting, days before the Turkish club was set to hold a congress to elect ...

The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected a new ceasefire in Lebanon on Thursday and Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the country, undermining U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the NATO meeting of heads of state that is taking place in Turkey in early July, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

When Anna Yegoyan first moved from the Armenian capital to the northern mountain town of Ijevan, she had to reach it along bumpy, potholed roads. Years later, she points to ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday warned young Russians that they would probably die if they sign up to join Russia’s war in Ukraine. “You are being sold ...

The Turkish government on Thursday denied reports that the country’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan had cancelled a planned trip to Kazakhstan after Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides embarked on a ...

Hungarian prosecutors have dropped charges against Budapest’s liberal Mayor Gergely Karacsony over his role in organising an LGBTQ+ rights rally in 2025, prosecutors said on Thursday. Tens of thousands of ...

Israeli strikes killed at least nine Palestinians, including five members of the same family, in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said. Medics in Gaza said ...

Turkey’s ruling AK Party is to open a representative office in Nicosia’s old town, with the party’s logo having been affixed to the front of a sandstone ...

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution on Wednesday to block President Donald Trump from continuing the war against Iran, reflecting growing concern among members of his ...

Israel and Lebanon agreed to implement a ceasefire to end hostilities, the Trump administration said on Wednesday, in a boost to hopes for a broader deal to end the U....

Ukraine’s stepped-up strikes deep inside Russia enable Kyiv to negotiate the end of the war on an equal footing, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, just after one of the barrages ...

The Israeli military said it had intercepted rockets fired by Hezbollah into Israel on Wednesday, while Lebanese security sources said an Israeli strike hit a car near Beirut, testing a ...

U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledged having called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crazy in an expletive-filled phone exchange over fighting in Lebanon, while the U.S. was trying to ...

Gulf hostilities flared again on Wednesday as Iranian attacks on Kuwait damaged its airport and injured dozens while the U.S. military carried out strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, ...

Britain’s home secretary Shabana Mahmood on Wednesday condemned as “completely unacceptable” violent protests which broke out over the case of an 18-year-old who was handcuffed as he lay dying ...

Ukraine struck an oil export terminal in St Petersburg hours before President Vladimir Putin’s annual economic forum got under way in an attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief and ...

A second general strike in six months disrupted services across Portugal on Wednesday, halting trains, cancelling hundreds of flights and closing schools, as unions protested against the government’s labour ...