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By Kate Abnett European Union countries want to water down parts of the bloc’s flagship nature law by adding loopholes to dodge certain targets, as they attempt to find ...

Satellite-tagged vultures uncover suspected poisoning incidents near Kafue National Park By Gloria Dickie Lion and leopard populations in Zambia’s Kafue National Park are showing signs of a modest comeback ...

Russia’s defence minister said on Tuesday his forces had thwarted the first three days of a Ukrainian counter-offensive in battles that had left more than 3,700 Ukrainian soldiers dead or ...

Members of the hard-left CGT trade union briefly occupied the headquarters of the Paris Summer 2024 Olympics on Tuesday on the 14th day of protests against government plans to raise the ...

Prince Harry said the press had blood on its hands as he gave evidence against a tabloid publisher whose titles he accuses of phone-hacking and other unlawful activities, becoming the ...

European Union countries are expected this week to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official said on Tuesday of what ...

A torrent of water burst through a huge dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of the war ...

French unions are staging today Tuesday a 14th day of protests against government plans to raise the retirement age to 64, in what could be a final attempt to pressure lawmakers ...

Iran presented what officials described as its first domestically-made hypersonic ballistic missile on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported, an announcement likely to heighten Western concerns about Tehran’s ...

Even as higher costs of borrowing continue to choke dealmaking, fund managers and bankers believe smaller UK-listed firms remain attractive to private equity players flush with unspent funds of nearly ...

Eurozone business activity was shored up last month by the bloc’s dominant services industry offsetting a deepening decline in the manufacturing sector, according to a survey which also showed ...

Oil prices rose by more than $1 a barrel on Monday after top crude exporter Saudi Arabia pledged to cut production by a further 1 million barrels per day (bpd) from July ...

Adding an experimental mRNA-based vaccine from Moderna Inc MRNA.O and Merck & Co MRK.N (known as MSD in Europe) reduced the risk that the most deadly skin cancer ...

Germany is launching a programme that will make available tens of billions of euros for firms facing substantial energy costs, in a bid to help its challenged industrial sector fund ...

Apple Inc AAPL.O is expected to unveil a mixed-reality headset at its annual software developer conference on Monday, its first big move into a new product category since the ...

Moscow said on Monday it had thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive in the south of Ukraine’s Donetsk region but Russia’s main mercenary leader said Russian forces had lost ...

India and the United States have concluded a roadmap for defence industry cooperation for the next few years, the two countries said on Monday, a landmark move expected to bolster ...

Prince Harry’s lawyers accused a British tabloid publisher on Monday of sowing “the seeds of discord” with his elder brother Prince William, after the royal earlier failed to appear ...

President Tayyip Erdogan is considering appointing Hafize Gaye Erkan, a senior finance executive in the United States, as governor of Turkey’s central bank, according to two senior officials with ...

The official investigation into India’s deadliest rail crash in over two decades began on Monday after preliminary findings pointed to signal failure as the likely cause for a collision ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday his plan to stop migrants arriving in small boats had reduced crossings by 20%, an update he hopes will ease criticism from his ...

A senior Binance executive was the main operator for five bank accounts belonging to the giant cryptocurrency exchange’s purportedly independent U.S. affiliate, including an account that held American ...

Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said on Monday. The poisoning, which targeted a girls’ school in the Afghan province of ...

The United Nations said on Monday it was “alarmed” by detentions in Hong Kong linked to the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, while China said the financial hub ...