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The pound rose on Thursday after the Bank of England held interest rates at a 15-year high but stressed that it did not intend to cut them any time soon. ...

The Turkish central bank hiked required reserves for FX-protected lira deposits by 5 percentage points, according to a decision published in the Official Gazette early on Thursday. The central bank increased ...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense lawyer told jurors on Wednesday that prosecutors in his fraud trial sought to portray him as a “villain” and a “monster” because they could ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander Valery Zaluzhnyi was wrong to talk of the conflict in Ukraine moving towards a new stage of static fighting as ...

People hoping to leave the Gaza Strip converged on the Rafah crossing to Egypt on Thursday, with those whose names were on an official list gradually passing through while others ...

Israeli tanks and troops pressed towards Gaza City on Thursday but met resistance from Hamas militants using mortars and hit-and-run attacks from tunnels as the Palestinian death toll from nearly ...

Storm Ciaran smashed into northwestern Europe on Thursday with strong winds and driving rain, killing one person in France and forcing the closure of schools, airports, and rail and ferry ...

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 ...