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Iranian security forces deployed at universities in several cities on Wednesday, witnesses said, stepping up efforts to quell more than two weeks of protests ignited by the death of 22-year-old ...

Ukraine said its forces have retaken more settlements in Kherson, one of four partially Russian-occupied regions that President Vladimir Putin formally incorporated into Russia in Europe’s biggest annexation since ...

Prime Minister Liz Truss sought on Wednesday to restore her authority following a chaotic first month in power, urging her Conservative Partyto trust her to secure economic growth and steer ...

Turkey’s government and opposition both vowed legal steps to enshrine women’s right to wear Islamic headscarves on Wednesday, restoring to the heart of political debate ahead of next ...

The European Union gave its final approval for a new batch of sanctions against Russia over its war against Ukraine, the bloc’s executive arm in Brussels said on Wednesday. ...

Britain’s pound weakened against the dollar on Wednesday, ending a six-day rally, but staying well off recent lows as British Prime Minister Liz Truss spoke at the Conservative party ...

Angelina Jolie detailed what she described as abusive behavior by ex-husband Brad Pitt in a court filing on Tuesday, escalating a legal battle over a French winery the former couple ...

US President Joe Biden and top White House officials announced new guidelines and grants to protect abortion and contraception rights, and said women’s rights have already been curtailed since ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will impress upon EU leaders meeting this week the need for a gas price cap and to ensure any financial support measures allow ...

Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, famous for staging an on-air protest against Russia’s war in Ukraine, confirmed she had escaped house arrest over charges of spreading fake news again, ...

Gold-supplying banks have cut back shipments to India ahead of major festivals in favour of focusing on China, Turkey, and other markets where better premiums are offered, three bank officials ...

South Korea and the U.S. military conducted rare missile drills and an American supercarrier repositioned east of North Korea after Pyongyang flew a missile over Japan, one of the ...

Ukraine has accused Russia of trying to push its ally Belarus to the top of an international diamond certification body to protect Moscow’s gems from being branded conflict diamonds ...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck northwestern Iran on Wednesday, and state television said medical authorities in the area reported that at least 276 people had been injured. The quake’s epicentre was ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine‘s military had made major, rapid advances against Russian forces in the past week, taking back dozens of towns in regions in the south and ...

Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss promised to “unshackle” the City of London to fuel growth, but crashing the bond market over tax cuts will take the shine off ...

The oil market is not focusing on the fact that global spare capacity to raise oil production is very low, Saudi Aramco’s Chief Executive said on Tuesday, with Shell’...

The European Union can learn from Spain and Portugal’s mechanism to cap the price of gas used in power generation, although the scheme is not suitable to immediately roll ...

The operators of two Baltic Sea gas pipelines that linked Russia and Germany until they both sprang major leaks last week said they were unable to inspect the damaged sections ...

Turkish lawmakers began debating on Tuesday a contentious media bill, proposed by President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party and its nationalist allies, that the opposition and media rights groups say ...

Large swathes of Bangladesh were left without electricity on Tuesday after a grid failure, a government official said, adding that authorities were working to gradually restore power supply in the ...

Scientists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their advances in quantum mechanics on the behaviour of subatomic particles, opening the door to ...

It was the closing stages of the match, a football derby in Indonesia’s East Java province, and 29-year-old spectator Ahmad Nizar Habibi said he had a gut feeling things ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin may finalise his plan to annex four Ukrainian regions later on Tuesday, even as his forces are being pushed back by Ukraine on two separate battlefield ...