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Fierce fighting could be heard in central Khartoum on Thursday as the army tried to push back the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from areas around the presidential palace and ...

Israeli forces on Thursday killed two Palestinian gunmen who had shot dead a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in April in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s domestic security ...

A 13-year-old boy gunned down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school on Wednesday in a planned attack, prompting Serbia’s president to announce tougher curbs ...

Explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities in the early hours of Thursday morning, officials and media outlets said, with some local authorities reporting that anti-aircraft ...

Median pay for top US CEOs rose 7.7 per cent last year to a record $22.3 million, a new study found, as big stock awards helped the group stay ahead of inflation ...

Turkish annual inflation slowed to 43.68 per cent in April, official data showed on Wednesday, easing ahead of elections that polls show President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing largely due to a ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that it has dismissed a senior scientist, known for his role as the head of an international mission to China to probe the ...

The European Commission is puzzled about the relatively low amount of frozen assets of Russian oligarchs in Cyprus, the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said on Wednesday, a day ...

At least one person was killed in a lunchtime shooting at a medical building in a busy commercial area of Atlanta, and the suspected gunman was still at large, police ...

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of a failed attempt to assassinate President Vladimir Putin in a drone attack on the Kremlin citadel in Moscow, and threatened to retaliate. Ukrainian President ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pension law passed another hurdle on Wednesday when the Constitutional Council rejected a second bid by political opponents to hold a referendum on ...

The United Nations said on Wednesday it was seeking assurances from Sudan’s warring factions on the safe delivery of aid after six trucks of humanitarian supplies were looted and ...

The foreign ministry sent a support message to Serbia on Wednesday following news that a boy killed eight children and a security guard in a school shooting in Belgrade. In ...

More than 11,000 police officers will patrol London’s streets for King Charles’ coronation on Saturday, the biggest ceremonial event staged in the British capital for 70 years, and they are well ...

An experimental Alzheimer’s drug developed by Eli Lilly and Co LLY.N slowed cognitive decline by 35% in a closely watched late-stage trial, the company said on Wednesday, raising hopes ...

Government-led reforms and the growth of private investment in new sectors will help support non-oil economic growth in Saudi Arabia amid an expected sharp slowdown in overall growth this year, ...

Turkey has agreed with Russia’s Gazprom (GAZP.MM) on deferring payment for part of the natural gas it imported after a surge in prices last year, Energy Minister Fatih ...

Turkey has closed its airspace to Armenian flights heading to a third destination in response to the unveiling of a controversial monument in Yerevan last week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut ...

Oil depots were ablaze in both Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday as both sides escalated a drone war targeting infrastructure ahead of Kyiv’s planned spring counter-offensive to try to ...

A boy gunned down fellow pupils in a Belgrade school on Wednesday morning in a pre-planned attack, shooting dead eight plus a security guard and wounding seven others, Serbian officials ...

Chinese models dominated electric car sales in Israel during the first four months of 2023, shows data released by the Israel Vehicle Importers Association on Tuesday. The statistics showed that 66 per ...

German and Italian police arrested more than 100 people on Wednesday in a crackdown on the Italian ‘Ndrangheta organised crime group, German public prosecutors and police authorities in the two countries ...

Police captured a man suspected of shooting five Texas neighbors to death and leading multiple agencies on a four-day manhunt after a tip led them to a home in a ...

Police arrested a man outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday for throwing what they believe were shotgun cartridges and officers also carried out a controlled explosion in the area, days before ...