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Turkish authorities have brought under control an agricultural fire that killed 12 people and wounded 78 others in a region near the Turkish border with Syria and Iraq, local media reported on ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, said the eastward of expansion of the European Union and NATO had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he is profoundly concerned by escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah and that U.N. peacekeepers are working to calm ...

Russia launched a new barrage of missiles and drones in an attack on Ukraine on Saturday, damaging energy facilities in the southeast and west, injuring at least two energy workers, ...

British house prices rose for a second month in a row in April, increasing by an annual 1.1 per cent to an average of 281,000 pounds ($358,000) after a 0.9 per cent rise in ...

A man died on Friday as several forest fires fanned by gale-force winds battered Greece’s southern tip and forced evacuations, the fire brigade said. The 55-year-old man was injured ...

A major power outage hit Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and most of Croatia’s coast on Friday, disrupting businesses, shutting down traffic lights and leaving people sweltering without air conditioning in ...

Russia sees a pressing need for security talks with the United States but they must be “comprehensive” and include the subject of Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday. “It is ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “incredibly angry” to hear that three of his party colleagues were being investigated over allegedly placing bets on an early announcement of ...

Mark Rutte, who looks set to be NATO’s next secretary-general, is a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putinand a staunch ally of Ukraine who honed his skills as ...

Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat ...

Israeli forces pounded Rafah and other areas across the Gaza Strip and engaged in close-quarter combat with fighters led by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, residents and Israel’s military said. ...

With the temporary pier to the Gazan coastline operational, humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza resumed on Thursday. The US Central Command (US Centcom) said in a press release on ...

Hezbollah’s “verbal attack” against Cyprus “is just beyond me”, the state department said on Thursday. “Why Hezbollah would attack a country in the middle of that important humanitarian role ...

A drone crashed into the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Friday, injuring at least two people and causing a small fire, local authorities said. Ukraine ...

The White House expressed deep disappointment over criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the United States on Thursday amid tensions between the two allies over Israel’s war ...

NatWest (NWG.L) has struck a deal to acquire most of the banking business of UK retailer Sainsbury’s (SBRY.L), the companies said on Thursday, in a deal that ...

A luxury cruise ship rescued 68 migrants trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands in a fishing boat that had stalled in rough seas, Spanish authorities and the cruise operator said ...

Donald Sutherland, one of Canada’s most versatile and gifted actors, who charmed and enthralled audiences in movies such as “M*A*S*H,” “Klute,” “Ordinary People” and “The Hunger ...

TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance on Thursday urged a U.S. court to strike down a law they say will ban the popular short video app in the United States ...

Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally is seen leading the race ahead of France’s parliamentary elections, three polls showed on Thursday, ahead of the leftwing Popular Front and ...

Birth rates have dropped sharply in some of the world’s richest states and are likely to stay low as economic worries leave people weighing the costs of having children, ...

Ukrainians who fled their homes to escape Russia’s invasion have received better treatment than those displaced by other ongoing wars and emergencies, Europe’s top human rights group said ...

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Thursday said it would be “very tough” for the Conservatives to win the July 4 election, after opinion polls predicted a landslide win for the opposition ...