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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday began a four-day visit to China focused on easing tensions between the world’s two largest economies, despite low expectations on both ...

Ukraine on Thursday said it had secured the backing of NATO member Bulgaria for its membership of the military alliance “as soon as conditions allow” as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held ...

British police said one child had died and a woman had been arrested after a car collided with a building at a school in south London on Thursday in an ...

Russia and Ukraine announced a prisoner of war exchange on Thursday involving the return of 45 soldiers from each side. Russia’s defence ministry said that 45 Russian servicemen had been returned ...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday that Sweden’s membership in the alliance was within reach after a meeting in Brussels to overcome Turkish objections. Stoltenberg said leaders of ...

Ukraine plans to abandon conscription and move to a professional army after the war with Russia to bring Kyiv closer to NATO standards, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Thursday. ...

Raiffeisen Bank International is delaying plans to leave Russia, three people familiar with its position said, as Austria steps up its defence of long-standing ties with Moscow. Raiffeisen (RBI), the ...

The mutinous head of Russia’s Wagner group is no longer in Belarus and it is not clear if his fighters will move there, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on ...

Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother Adil has left the door of his Athens home open in the hope ...

Two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon toward Israel on Thursday, prompting cross-border strikes by the Israeli military, sources on both sides said. The incident came amid heightened Israeli-Arab tensions ...

The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that refugees can be stripped of the protective status in the bloc if they are convicted of a particularly serious crime ...

Russian state TV on Wednesday night launched a fierce attack on Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of an aborted armed mercenary mutiny last month, and said an investigation was still being ...

Supermarket group Tesco (TSCO.L), Britain’s largest private-sector employer, is to offer its staff virtual appointments with a private family doctor, in another indication of the pressures engulfing the ...

The death toll from an overnight gas cylinder leak in a South African shantytown rose to 17 on Thursday, as one local official blamed the accident on an illegal mining operation ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Sweden has taken steps in the right direction for its NATO bid with anti-terrorism legislation but continued protests there by Kurdish militant sympathisers undermined its ...

A Russian missile attack killed at least three people in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, and rescuers were searching through the debris of a apartment building for survivors and ...

Eurozone business activity slipped into contractionary territory last month in a broad-based downturn across the bloc’s dominant services industry and a deepening decline of factory output, a survey showed. ...

Russia’s finance ministry said on Wednesday it would sell 1.7 billion roubles’ ($18.9 million) worth of foreign currency a day between July 7 and Aug. 4, a decrease in the volume of daily ...

The U.S. Navy said it had intervened to prevent Iran from seizing two commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, in the latest in a series of ...

A Philadelphia resident arrested in one of a series of mass shootings across the country over the Fourth of July weekend was arraigned in court on Wednesday on five murder ...

A man who detonated a explosive device at a court in the Ukrainian capital died on Wednesday after barricading himself inside part of the building, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, ...

The European Union’s latest democracy health check showed there was no significant deterioration across the 27-nation bloc in areas like media and court freedoms or efforts to tackle corruption ...

Palestinian militant fighters paraded in Jenin on Wednesday and angry crowds confronted senior Palestinian Authority officials, accusing them of weakness, after one of the largest Israeli military operations in the ...

Residents in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia appeared calm on Wednesday after Kyiv’s latest warning that Russian forces could trigger a catastrophe at the nearby Moscow-held nuclear power ...