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Last month was the warmest February on record in England and Wales, the Met Office national weather service said on Friday, pointing to the impact of human-induced climate change on ...

The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) and the Bank of Greece (BoG) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation during a ceremony held in Nicosia. The signing ceremony took place ...

Thousands of Russians chanted Alexei Navalny’s name and said they would not forgive the authorities for his death as the opposition leader was laid to rest in Moscow on ...

France and Germany joined calls on Friday for an independent inquiry into the deaths of dozens of Palestinians awaiting aid in Gaza, an incident which Israeli media said could weaken ...

Iranians voted for a new parliament on Friday in an election seen as a test of the clerical establishment’s legitimacy at a time of growing frustration over economic woes ...

More than a billion people globally are now considered obese, a condition linked to an increased risk of numerous serious health problems, according to updated estimates from the World Health ...

The U.S. Senate soundly defeated an effort to stop the $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets and modernization kits to Turkey, which President Joe Biden’s administration approved after ...

A Russian-American detained in Russia on a treason charge carrying up to 20 years in prison told her boyfriend “it’s safe there” before she travelled to see relatives in Yekaterinburg, ...

A massive fire in Bangladesh that raced through a six-storey building home to restaurants where many families with children were dining has killed at least 45 people and injured dozens, the ...

Veteran left-wing political maverick George Galloway won a vote to become the new lawmaker for the English town of Rochdale on Friday, vowing to be a thorn in the side ...

A Russian man pled guilty on Thursday to U.S. charges that he smuggled large quantities of American-made, military-grade microelectronics to Russia, top U.S. justice officials said in a ...

Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report on Thursday. The report called ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday his government would find a way to end exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews from Israeli military service in the face of political pressures that ...

A public inquiry into a British police officer whose rape and murder of a woman horrified the nation concluded on Thursday that without a sweeping overhaul of failed vetting procedures, ...

In the shattered town of Orikhiv not far from the southeastern front in Ukraine, Svitlana, a grandmother, sleeps in the brick-walled basement of her apartment block where she lives with ...

Health authorities in Gaza said on Thursday Israeli fire on people waiting for aid near Gaza City had killed 104 Palestinians and wounded 280, with one hospital saying it had received 10 bodies ...

President Vladimir Putin delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address on Thursday to Russia’s elite, updating them on the war in Ukraine, Moscow’s nuclear capabilities, and its relationship with the ...

Thailand will ban recreational use of marijuana by the end of this year but continue to allow its use for medical purposes, the health minister told Reuters in an interview. ...

One person died and five were injured when a helicopter crash-landed in the ocean off western Norway, police said on Thursday, leading to a temporary halt in transport to and ...

President Joe Biden’s administration is considering airdropping aid from U.S. military planes into Gaza as land deliveries become increasingly difficult, a U.S. official said. Israel’s military ...

The US economy grew at a solid clip in the fourth quarter amid strong consumer spending, the government confirmed on Wednesday, but it appears to have lost some speed early ...

Britain’s market regulator plans to announce corporate investigations earlier, publish updates and close inquiries more quickly in an effort to prioritise cases with the most impact and reassure the ...

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell‘s said on Wednesday he would step down from his leadership role, leaving a power vacuum atop the party he has piloted for ...

Allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned French President Emmanuel Macron that any troops he sends to Ukraine would meet the same end as Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande ...