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By Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and David Stanway Governments launched new initiatives on Saturday to bolster clean energy and to wean themselves off fossil fuels at the UN climate summit ...

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said that the chance for peace in Gaza after the humanitarian pause was lost for now due to Israel’s uncompromising approach, broadcaster NTV reported ...

The United States has pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund, Vice President Kamala Harris said on Saturday in Dubai at the U.N. COP28 climate summit. The fund, with ...

North Korea said on Saturday it would consider any interference with its satellite operations a declaration of war and would mobilise its war deterrence if any attack against its strategic ...

By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici The Biden administration on Saturday unveiled final rules aimed at cracking down on US oil and gas industry releases of methane, part of a ...

December 1 was the first full day at COP28 and it was mostly devoted to rhetoric-heavy speeches from world leaders, except of course Joe Biden and Xi Jinping who decided not ...

By Samia Nakhoul, Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Jonathan Saul Israel has informed several Arab states that it wants to carve out a buffer zone on the Palestinian side of Gaza’...

Abu Dhabi’s Aldar Properties (ALDAR.AD) has bought London-based developer London Square for an enterprise value of 1.07 billion dirhams ($291 million) in its first acquisition outside the Middle East. “Aldar ...

Retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the US Supreme Court, whose centrist views and shrewd negotiating skills allowed her to steer the nation’s law for ...

Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese respiratory ...

Slovak road hauliers started blocking the country’s main border crossing point with Ukraine on Friday, joining Polish protests in demanding that the European Union reintroduce a permit system for ...

A United Nations office said on Friday it was “seriously concerned” about a dramatic rise in Israel’s arrest of Palestinians and called for an investigation into allegations of torture ...

Almost three years after Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s interview with Oprah Winfrey sent shockwaves through the British monarchy, their most sensational claim which provoked a royal race ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders at the COP28 climate summit to plan for a future without fossil fuels, saying there was no other way to curb global ...

Israel’s warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas broke down, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and others onto the streets ...

Yevhen Tkachov, a volunteer aid worker and devout Pentecostal from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, spent much of his life travelling to the world’s war zones helping civilians in ...

At Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a man cradling a boy with a bloodied scalp cried for help. A girl who had arrived in an ambulance with an unconscious man ...

A helicopter crashed on a Madrid motorway ring road on Friday morning, hitting a car and leaving three people injured, the city’s emergency services said. Two people were in ...

Deep within the lush mountainous forests of Cyprus, survivors of the Oct. 7 music festival bloodbath in Israel practice yoga, paint and meditate as they try to come to grips with ...

Chelsea holds the title of the poshest Premier League team boasting an impressive overall score of 9.68/10. Their home stadium, Stamford Bridge, is situated in one of the UK’s wealthiest ...

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on social media on Friday that he had been informed of new criminal charges against him. Navalny, 47, is already serving sentences in a penal colony ...

COP28 is finally upon us. The biggest show on earth started on Thursday, November 30, in Dubai, attended by 165 heads of state and more than 97,000 delegates from over 200 countries. For the ...

Israeli warplanes resumed the pounding of Gaza, Palestinian civilians fled for shelter and rocket sirens blared in southern Israel on Friday as war resumed after a week-long truce collapsed with ...

Metro Bank (MTRO.L) on Thursday announced sweeping cost-cutting plans aimed at bolstering its finances, which could see the embattled British lender lay off 20 per cent of its staff and ...