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Six French airports faced security alerts on Wednesday and several were evacuated for checks, the DGAC aviation authority said on Wednesday. The airports affected were Toulouse in the southwest, Nice ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday he was “horrified” by hundreds of people killed in a blast at a Gaza hospital, strongly condemning the action. Palestinian officials said ...

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and invited global investment in the Northern Sea route which he said could ...

A hard-won deal on the European Union’s negotiating stance for this year’s U.N. climate talks has revealed regional rifts that anticipate global tensions at the COP28 summit. ...

One Israeli cabinet minister was barred from a hospital visitors’ entrance. Another’s bodyguards were drenched with coffee thrown by a bereaved man. A third had “traitor” and “imbecile” shouted ...

Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had seen no evidence of a direct hit by aerial munitions on a hospital in the Gaza Strip the day before, where hundreds ...

Oil prices surged on Wednesday as tension escalated in the Middle East after hundreds were killed in a blast at a Gaza hospital, sparking concerns about potential oil supply disruptions ...

European Union countries’ energy ministers struck a deal to reform power market subsidies, Spain’s energy minister said defusing a stand-off between France and Germany over the future competitiveness of ...

Guinea-Bissau’s capital was plunged into darkness on Tuesday after Turkish company Karpowership cut off electricity supplies to the West African nation due to an unpaid debt of $17 million, the ...

Growth in British workers’ regular pay – which is being watched closely by the Bank of England – slowed from a previous record high and job vacancies also dropped, official figures showed ...

Overwhelmed by record numbers of asylum seekers from around the world, U.S. border officials have released thousands of migrants on streets in the San Diego area the past month, ...

A Ugandan national and two foreign tourists have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in a national park, the police said ...

A Gaza health ministry spokesman said hundreds were killed in a blast at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other and that ...

Turkey will allocate more than $40 billion to its defense budget in 2024, a presentation by a vice president showed, marking a 150% increase from this year’s budget, in another move to ...

Poland’s president should move swiftly to allow the formation of a new government, Donald Tusk, leader of the Civic Coalition (KO), said on Tuesday, after official election results showed ...

US President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday to show support for its war on Hamas after Washington said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to let humanitarian aid ...

Donald Trump promised that if elected president again he will bar immigrants who support Hamas from entering the U.S. and send officers to pro-Hamas protests to arrest and deport ...

The United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday that Israel’s siege of Gaza and its evacuation order for the north of the enclave could amount to a forcible ...

India’s top court on Tuesday declined to legalise same-sex marriage and left it to parliament to decide, agreeing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that the legislature is ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing on Tuesday to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on a widely watched trip aimed at showcasing the trust and “no-limits” partnership between ...

A 45-year-old Tunisian gunman suspected of killing two Swedish football fans in Brussels died on Tuesday after being shot by police in a cafe, Belgium authorities said, while Sweden’s ...

An Israeli military spokesman said on Tuesday that the status of the Gaza Strip after Israel’s planned ground assault on the Palestinian enclave would be a “global issue” for ...

British clothing and food retailer Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) said on Monday it plans to recruit 10,000 temporary workers for the Christmas season, a more than 40 per cent increase on ...

European Union leaders aim on Tuesday to settle on a united approach to the crisis triggered by the Hamas attack on Israel after days of confusion, infighting and mixed messaging. ...