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Britain will study whether the use of Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug can get people back into work and help tackle the high rate of long-term sickness that has ...

Alexei Moskalyov, a Russian man jailed for two years for discrediting the army after his daughter drew an anti-war picture, alleged after his release on Tuesday that he had been ...

Israel, which began incursions into south Lebanon two weeks ago to battle Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, has issued military evacuation orders affecting more than a quarter of the country, the ...

NATO will not be cowed by Russian threats but keep up its strong support of Kyiv, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on his first visit to the alliance’s Ukraine ...

British pay grew at its slowest pace in more than two years in the three months to August and vacancies fell again, according official data that will probably be welcomed ...

Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will meet his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan in Athens on Nov. 8 to discuss bilateral issues including the demarcation of an exclusive economic zone, diplomatic sources ...

Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces tightened their squeeze around Jabalia in the north of the enclave on Tuesday, amid fierce battles ...

Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, said on Tuesday Israel deliberately chose to expand what he called its “aggression” to implement pre-planned schemes in the West Bank and ...

North Korea blew up sections of inter-Korean roads and rail lines on its side of the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas on Tuesday, prompting South Korea’s military ...

Scientists in Brazil announced the discovery of one of the world’s oldest fossils believed to belong to an ancient reptile dating back some 237 million years that could help explain ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised on Monday to scrap regulation that holds back economic growth as he secured commitments for more than £60 billion ($78 billion) of investment from some of ...

At least 12 people were killed and 33 injured in Egypt on Monday after a bus overturned on a highway connecting Cairo to the Red Sea coast, the Egyptian health ministry said. ...

Israeli attacks on the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, are contrary to international humanitarian law and must stop at once, Italy, Britain, France and Germany said ...

Israel expanded its targets in its war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people in an airstrike in the north, health officials said, while millions of ...

The World Health Organisation said it received pledges worth $700 million for its 2025-2028 budget at an event in Berlin on Monday, in addition to $300 million already pledged by the European ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had been briefed about North Korea’s involvement in the war in his country and Russia’s plans for this autumn and ...

Half a million consumers in Latin America’s largest city are still without electricity three days after a violent gale knocked down power lines and caused a blackout, the distributor ...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is rolling out a new tax-cut proposal about once a week in an unusual rush in the final stretch of the campaign to sway voters ...

A British woman killed by the Novichok nerve agent following the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was caught in the “crossfire” of an international assassination attempt, a ...

The Kremlin said that NATO’s annual nuclear exercise involving nuclear-capable military aircraft, which began on Monday, was fuelling tensions in light of the “hot war” unfolding in Ukraine. NATO ...

Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their research into why global inequality persists, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship. Simon Johnson ...

The head of the U.N. refugee agency warned on Monday that displacement crises in Lebanon and Sudan could worsen, but said tighter border measures were not the solution, calling ...

Palestinian medics said on Monday that at least 10 people were killed and 30 injured by Israeli tank shells that hit a food distribution centre in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, with casualties ...

After weeks of intensive diplomacy aimed at securing a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah militants, the United States has settled on an altogether different approach: let the unfolding conflict in ...