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US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin for three hours in Moscow on Friday to discuss the US plan to end the war in ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has appointed a former member of his Senate staff who primarily has experience as a business consultant as the U.S. State Department’s top ...

Officials from the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and key countries met with Syrian authorities this week on efforts to rebuild the war-torn country, emphasizing the need for credible data, ...

China’s central bank governor on Friday criticized the U.S. for threatening global financial stability with its “recent abuse” of tariffs, in the wake of recent moves seen by ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday to discuss a U.S. plan to end the Ukraine war on terms ...

Turkish inflation expectations edged up in April for businesses and market participants, and remained steady at 59.3 per cent in 12 months time for households, the central bank said on Friday, reflecting ...

Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow implementation of his executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military, one of a series ...

Kyiv’s delegation at a meeting with allies in London this week reaffirmed the principles on which talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine are based, including never recognising ...

A car bomb killed a senior Russian military officer in the town of Balashikha just east of Moscow on Friday, Russian investigators said, in an attack that Russian war bloggers ...

US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow on Friday, where he is expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Interfax news agency. Witkoff ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Thursday night reiterated his support for a two-state solution to the Cyprus problem, saying, “whatever the Greek Cypriots and the European Union say, the ...

The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion, six sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters, saying the proposal was ...

Global ratings agency S&P Global downgraded Bahrain’s outlook to “negative” from “stable”, citing ongoing market volatility and weaker financing conditions that could increase the government’s interest ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday he was ready to travel to Europe for talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, with France indicating European powers were also ready ...

A 15-year-old boy killed a fellow pupil and wounded three others in a stabbing attack at a high school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday before he ...

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday ordered a lower panel to reconsider Israel’s objections to the court’s jurisdiction over arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders ...

Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 12 people in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year and drawing a rare rebuke from Donald Trump, ...

Thousands of people marched through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp in Poland on Thursday in an annual ceremony organisers said would be joined by 80 Holocaust survivors to mark ...

Pakistan closed its air space for Indian airlines and rejected New Delhi’s suspension of a critical water sharing treaty on Thursday in retaliation for India’s response to a ...

Russia and Ukraine traded new barbs over faltering peace efforts on Thursday, with Moscow accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of blocking diplomacy and Kyiv saying Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted ...

Greece will deploy a record number of firefighters this year in anticipation of “bad scenarios” ahead, its climate crisis minister said on Thursday, after a succession of destructive wildfires. Weather ...

Britain’s communications regulator said on Thursday that online platforms hosting pornographic and other content considered harmful must enforce “highly effective” age restrictions by July 25 to prevent children accessing the ...

An Israeli airstrike hit a police station in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 10 people, local health authorities said, and Israel’s military said it ...

The World Bank has granted Lebanon a $250 million loan aimed at helping alleviate persistent power cuts worsened by last year’s war between Israel and Hezbollah, the country’s finance ...