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Almost three in four Palestinians believe the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and ...

The European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged as expected on Thursday and signalled an early end to its last remaining bond purchase scheme, wrapping up a decade-long experiment in ...

Russia will press on with its war in Ukraine unless Kyiv does a deal that takes Moscow’s security concerns into account, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, adding that ...

An opposition Turkish lawmaker died on Thursday, two days after suffering a heart attack and collapsing in front of parliament as he finished a speech criticising the government’s policy ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday to open membership talks with his country, warning that Europe would not understand if the meeting resulted ...

Israel pounded the length of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing families in their homes even as Washington sent an envoy to encourage its ally to guard better against civilian ...

Turkey’s steps to promote traditional moral values in students, increase Islamic lessons and open prayer rooms in schools are fuelling secularist concerns in the Muslim country and laying bare ...

Copenhagen police and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) said on Thursday they had made several arrests in a coordinated action across the country on suspicion of preparation for ...

The Bank of England looks set to keep interest rates at a 15-year high later on Thursday, but investors are most focused on whether policymakers will push back against growing ...

European Union leaders head into a high-stakes summit for Ukraine on Thursday, with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban blocking both the start of EU membership talks and 50 billion euros ($54 billion) ...

Israel kept up its barrage of the Gaza Strip on Thursday despite intensifying international calls to reduce civilian casualties and address a mounting humanitarian catastrophe. In central Rafah, in the ...

Argentina’s government allowed the peso currency to plunge over 50 per cent to 801 per dollar on Wednesday as markets cautiously welcomed the first details of President Javier Milei’s plans ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) is recalling just over 2 million vehicles in the United States fitted with its Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system to install new safeguards, after a federal safety regulator said ...

Israeli citizens said on Wednesday the army should not back off from its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N. General Assembly’s ceasefire call, the growing list ...

Strong wind and heavy rain in Gaza overnight on Wednesday brought even worse misery to displaced families, tearing and flooding flimsy tents, drenching clothes and blankets and making everyone cold. ...

Turkey’s top football league will resume play on Tuesday next week following a one-week suspension due to an on-field attack by a club president on a referee, who emerged ...

Israel announced its worst combat losses for more than a month on Wednesday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is the most unpopular he has been since moving into Downing Street with his net favourability rating slipping by 10 percentage points since late November, a ...

Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, signalling the eventual ...

Azerbaijan and Armenia traded prisoners-of-war at their border on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, in a step towards normalising their relations after Azerbaijan achieved a decisive breakthrough in their decades-old ...

The European Union’s chief executive called on Wednesday for the bloc to support Ukraine as long as it takes, her remarks ahead of a key European leaders’ summit standing ...

Britain’s economy shrank in October, official data showed on Wednesday, raising the risk of a recession and testing the Bank of England’s resolve to stick to its tough ...

Russia’s second missile assault on Kyiv this week injured at least 53 people, damaging homes and a children’s hospital, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pleaded ...

Israel faced growing diplomatic isolation in its war against Hamas as the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and U.S. President Joe Biden told the longtime ...