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Nine Egyptian men who were on board a migrant boat that sank off Greece last year, killing hundreds of people, are to face trial next month, accused of people smuggling, ...

An Israeli inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure by the military, with the ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday rejected assertions by French President Emmanuel Macron that Russia would malevolently target the Paris Olympics this summer, calling them absolutely unfounded. Peskov also denied ...

A senior member of Britain’s governing Conservative Party has admitted supplying the personal details of fellow lawmakers to someone he met online, saying he had felt compromised after he ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, ...

Ukraine attacked Russia’s Morozovsk military air base in the Rostov region, destroying six Russian warplanes in a joint operation conducted by the SBU security service and military, a Kyiv ...

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has joined the board of The Hellenic Initiative (THI), an organisation investing in Greece through philanthropic actions and programmes focused on economic recovery, according to an announcement ...

Israel said it approved the reopening of the Erez crossing into northern Gaza and the temporary use of Ashdod port in southern Israel, following U.S. demands to increase humanitarian ...

US layoff announcements rose 7 per cent in March to the highest since January 2023, led by technology and government-sector job eliminations, though cuts announced year to date are down 5 per cent ...

The United States issued its strongest public rebuke toward Israel on Thursday since the start of the Gaza war, conditioning support for Israel’s offensive on concrete Israeli steps to ...

A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by New York’s Nassau County to let it enforce new restrictions on transgender athletes at county sports venues without facing legal ...

Spanish nongovernmental organization (NGO) Open Arms said it and U.S. charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) were suspending attempts to get aid to Gaza via sea after seven WCK workers ...

The leadership of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has asked one of its lawmakers to “clarify” a report that he received money from a pro-Russian news portal, amid ...

The Israeli military halted leave for all combat units on Thursday amid concerns of a possible escalation in violence after the killing of Iranian generals in Damascus this week drew ...

Former South Africa junior international Luke Fleurs, who played for the country’s most popular club Kaizer Chiefs, has been killed in an attempted hijacking in Johannesburg, police officials confirmed ...

Gulistan Sonuk, 31, sailed to election victory in Turkey’s conservative heartland at the weekend, part of a wave of new women mayors who dealt President Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK ...

Russia and NATO are now in “direct confrontation”, the Kremlin said as the U.S.-led alliance marked its 75th anniversary on Thursday. NATO’s successive waves of eastern enlargement ...

From a temporary seaside abode in northern Israel, Shay and Reut Hanegbi can hear the explosions when missiles are fired from Lebanon towards their hometown on the border, only four ...

Israel’s military halted leave for all combat units on Thursday, it said in a statement, amid concerns of a possible escalation in violence after the killing of Iranian generals ...

Suspected Sunni Muslim militants killed at least five Iranian security forces in two separate “terrorist” attacks on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards headquarters in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, ...

The number of people injured in a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in eastern Taiwan climbed past 1,000 on Thursday though the death toll remained steady at nine, with dozens workers on their way ...

Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them “systematically, ...

Western European governments have sought to reduce their energy dependence on Russia since the outbreak of the Ukraine war, but when it comes to gas, they have increasingly substituted the ...

Growth in the United Arab Emirates’ non-oil business sector eased a little in March, a survey showed on Wednesday, with supply constraints from shipping disruption in the Red Sea contributing ...