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Britain’s opposition Labour Party vowed on Thursday to reverse the government’s planned pension changes, saying they were a giveaway to the top 1% of pension savers at a time ...

The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible U.S. ban, the company told Reuters on ...

A freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in western Arizona on Wednesday evening, The New York Times reported, citing a spokesperson for the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office. There were ...

Washington’s top general said on Wednesday the crash of a U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea after being intercepted by Russian jets was part of Moscow’s ...

A U.S. judge in Texas on Wednesday heard more than four hours of arguments over a request by anti-abortion groups to ban sales of the abortion pill mifepristone across ...

Protesters marched across France on Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to convince lawmakers not to back President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform bill that would raise the retirement age by ...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced on Wednesday a plan that he hopes will speed up Britain’s stagnating economy, including childcare and pension reforms to get more people into work and ...

European Central Bank policymakers are leaning towards a half-percentage-point rate hike on Thursday, as the banking sector turmoil is dissipating, the eurozone economy is picking up strength and inflation is ...

Turkey’s parliament will “highly likely” ratify Finland’s NATO accession bid before it closes in mid-April, two Turkish officials told Reuters on Wednesday, a day before Finnish President Sauli ...

Moscow warned Washington on Wednesday to keep well away from its air space, after a U.S. drone intercepted by Russian jets crashed into the Black Sea, the first known ...

Democratic and Republican U.S. senators introduced a resolution on Wednesday that could force President Joe Biden’s administration to prepare a report on Saudi Arabia’s human rights record ...

The latest in a series of atmospheric river storms soaked California, bringing another deluge of rain to the already-saturated state, while a Nor’easter swirling over New York and New ...

The U.S. military said a Russian fighter plane clipped the propeller of one of its spy drones and made it crash into the Black Sea in the first such ...

Extreme volatility is rattling US Treasury markets in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SIVB.O) collapse and investors fear a prolonged bout of gyrations before calm returns to ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Germany’s response to the explosion on North Sea pipelines showed that the country remained “occupied” and unable to act independently decades after its surrender ...

Britain’s finance minister Jeremy Hunt is set to provide a 4 billion pound ($4.87 billion) expansion to free childcare for one and two year-olds in England in his budget plan on ...

Greece will next week start resuming rail services suspended following a train crash, the country’s deadliest rail disaster on record, a state minister overseeing transport said on Tuesday. Passenger ...

The Pentagon blamed a Russian fighter jet for the crash of a U.S. spy drone into the Black Sea on Tuesday while Moscow denied any collision as the encounter ...

Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi gained fame for hurling his shoes at President George W. Bush in a news conference to show his anger at the corruption and chaos that followed ...

Russian troops keep coming in waves along the frontline in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian soldiers said on Tuesday, a sign of no letup in Russia’s winter offensive despite Moscow having ...

Buildings across Europe could be renovated to cut emissions and save energy after the European Parliament on Tuesday approved a bill that aims to lower households’ energy bills and wean ...

It is a problem the butler of ‘Downton Abbey’ might have sympathised with. Highclere Castle in southern England, where the early 20th century period drama about the lives of aristocrats ...

Lahore in Pakistan jumped more than 10 places to become the city with the worst air in the world in 2022, according to an annual global survey by a Swiss maker of ...

By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici The Biden administration is approving a scaled-back version of ConocoPhillips’ $7 billion oil and gas drilling Willow project in Alaska, the US Department of Interior ...