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It was 10 minutes of shouted accusations of being a “genocide enabler” and having “blood on your hands” that made a British lawmaker fear for his safety over his decision to ...

Britain’s code of good practice for asset managers will undergo a root-and-branch review to aid economic growth and international competitiveness, its compiler said on Tuesday, in a move that ...

Asylum applications in the European Union jumped 18% to 1.14 million in 2023, the highest level since the 2015-2016 migrant crisis, data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) showed on Wednesday. ...

President Joe Biden easily won the Democratic presidential primary in Michigan, but a protest vote by Democrats angry over his support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza exceeded ...

British grocery prices rose this month at their lowest rate since March 2022, as supermarket promotions picked up after a post-Christmas slowdown, industry data showed on Tuesday. Market researcher Kantar said ...

Japan’s core consumer inflation slowed for a third straight month in January but beat forecasts and held at the central bank’s 2 per cent target, keeping alive expectations it ...

Veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in prison on Tuesday for “discrediting the armed forces” by protesting against the war in Ukraine and accusing President ...

Germany, Britain and other European countries said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine, after France hinted at the possibility, and the Kremlin warned that ...

Israel, Hamas and Qatari mediators all expressed caution on Tuesday about progress towards a truce in Gaza, after U.S. President Joe Biden said he believed a ceasefire deal could ...

New Zealand will repeal on Tuesday a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could ...

Group of 20 finance leaders are expected to say the global economy continues to face multiple challenges including “conflicts in many regions” and geoeconomic tensions, according to a draft version of ...

Russia on Tuesday announced a six-month ban on gasoline exports from March 1 to compensate for rising demand from consumers and farmers and to allow for planned maintenance of refineries. The ...

Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had launched a volley of rockets at an Israeli aerial surveillance base in response to the Israeli military’s deepest attack yet into Lebanese territory. ...

The two-day official visit of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella to Cyprus ends on Tuesday. According to the agenda, the Italian president will meet House Speaker Annita ...

French President Emmanuel Macron opened the door to European nations sending troops to Ukraine, although he cautioned that there was no consensus at this stage as allies agreed to ramp ...

Qatar will raise natural gas production despite a recent steep drop in global prices, in a long-term bet on rising demand for the less polluting fuel in Europe and Asia. ...

Hungary‘s parliament approved Sweden’s NATO accession on Monday, clearing the last hurdle before the historic step by the Nordic country whose neutrality lasted through two world wars and ...

Late British singer-songwriter George Michael is being honoured with a personalised collectible coin. Britain’s Royal Mint said on Monday the new coin, which depicts Michael wearing his trademark sunglasses, ...

After surviving on bitter loaves made from animal feed instead of proper flour, three young brothers who fled their home in Gaza City for a tent further south were tucking ...

A U.S. military service member who had set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington over the weekend, in an apparent act of protest against the war ...

Farmers on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket prices and what ...

On February 24, 2024, exactly two years since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Democratic Community of Russians in Cyprus – a group of expat Russians opposed to the war, and ...

British financier Jacob Rothschild, a senior member of one of Europe’s best-known banking dynasties, has died at the age of 87, his family announced on Monday. The family, in a ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak denied on Monday that his governing party has Islamophobic tendencies, saying comments by Conservative lawmaker Lee Anderson were unacceptable and that was why he had ...