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An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck the central Philippines on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The offshore quake was at a depth of 19.2 km (12 miles), USGS said, off ...

Australian police said on Thursday they had arrested a 49-year-old woman over the deaths of three elderly people in August after they allegedly consumed mushrooms at a lunch hosted by ...

Turkey is preparing new legislation covering crypto-assets to persuade an international crime watchdog to remove it from a “grey list” of countries that have taken insufficient action to prevent money ...

British house prices unexpectedly rose by almost 1 per cent in October but the increase was due more to a lack of homes for sale than a turnaround in the market ...

The White House on Wednesday said the United States would not put U.S. troops on the ground in Gaza in any future peacekeeping role, as it discusses with allies ...

Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. took the witness stand on Wednesday in a New York civil fraud trial accusing the former U.S. president and his family businesses ...

Israeli forces killed another Hamas commander on Wednesday in their second strike on Gaza’s largest refugee camp in two days, the military said, as the first group of civilian ...

More than 260 civilians have been killed in Ukraine after stepping on landmines or other explosives during the 20-month-old war with Russia, Ukraine’s military said on Wednesday. Kyiv estimates that 174,000 ...

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev sneered at the Danish brewer Carlsberg CARLb.CO on Wednesday for having thought it could quit Russia without penalty after the West sanctioned Moscow for ...

The European Union’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Wednesday said he was “appalled” by the high number of casualties from the bombing by Israel of a refugee camp in ...

Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla began the second day of a state visit to Kenya on Wednesday as survivors of colonial-era abuses criticised his failure to issue a ...

Ukraine’s attacks on the Russian Navy in the Black Sea have crippled Moscow’s war efforts, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, seeking to rally his troops even as ...

The BBC will start an emergency radio service for the people of Gaza in response to the ongoing conflict in the region, the British broadcaster’s World Service arm said ...

Oil prices edged up in Asian trade on Wednesday ahead of key meetings of global central banks this week, including the US Federal Reserve, while the market closely watched the ...

The UK government has scrapped guarantees on nearly 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion) of bank loans handed out to ailing businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving lenders on the hook for some ...

Firefighters in Lebanon were battling wildfires late on Tuesday that Lebanese civil defence said had been sparked by Israeli shelling, with the flames visible for miles as darkness fell. The ...

Prices in British store chains rose at the slowest pace in more than a year in October, according to industry data that adds to signs that the country’s high ...

Israeli airstrikes hit a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 50 Palestinians and a Hamas commander, and medics struggled to treat the casualties in the enclave ...

The United States has made “real progress” in the last few hours in negotiations to secure a safe passage for Americans and other foreigners who wish to depart the Gaza ...

By Iole Damaskinos, Nick Theodoulou, Nikolaos Prakas and Tom Cleaver Cyprus’ proposal for the establishment of a humanitarian corridor to the Gaza strip is being received positively, President Nikos Christodoulides ...

Almost three in 10 UK consumers plan to spend less in the festive period this year than last year, reflecting the impact of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, according to survey data ...

Israel said its forces fought Hamas gunmen inside the militants’ vast tunnel network beneath Gaza as a hospital director said more than 50 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike ...

In Los Angeles, a man screaming “kill Jews” attempts to break into a family’s home. In London, girls in a playground are told they are “stinking Jews” and should ...

The chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center on Tuesday criticised the country’s delegation to the United Nations for putting on yellow stars, a symbol of Nazi ...