East Germany’s last Communist premier dies aged 95
Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95, Germany’s hard-left Die ...
Turkey-Armenia gate opens for first time in decades to allow aid
A border gate between long-feuding Turkey and Armenia has been opened for the first time in 35 years to allow aid for victims of the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey, state-owned ...
Wagner boss: Russia could take two years to capture east Ukraine regions
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has said in a rare interview that it could take two years for Moscow to control the whole of two eastern Ukrainian ...
Moscow says calls to ban Russian athletes from Olympics ‘unacceptable’
Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said on Saturday that calls from ministers of more than 30 countries to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics were unacceptable, TASS news agency ...
Rescuers toil on in rubble; survivors ever harder to find
Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, five days after the country’s most devastating earthquake since 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria ...
Iran marks 44th anniversary of revolution, hackers interrupt TV coverage
The Islamic Republic marked the 44th anniversary of the Iranian revolution on Saturday with state-organised rallies, as anti-government hackers briefly interrupted a televised speech by President Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi, whose ...
Turkey to act against those involved in looting, says Erdogan
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday the government would take action against those involved in looting and other crimes in the region hit by this week’s devastating earthquakesas ...
Charles’ coronation emblem revealed, showing king’s love of nature
The official emblem which will be used for the celebrations to accompany the coronation of Britain’s King Charles in May was unveiled on Friday, with the design giving a ...
Two women survive for days in earthquake rubble as death toll tops 24,150
By Kemal Aslan, Maya Gebeily and Khalil Ashawi
Rescuers in Turkey pulled two women alive from the rubble of collapsed buildings after they were been trapped for 122 hours following the ...
US adds 6 Chinese entities tied to balloon programme to export blacklist
By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld
The Biden administration on Friday added six Chinese entities connected to Beijing’s suspected surveillance balloon programme to an export blacklist.
The new restrictions ...
Belgium detains two more EU lawmakers in graft investigation
Belgian prosecutors arrested one lawmaker and took another in for questioning on Friday in connection with a corruption scandal that has hit the European Parliament.
The cash-for-influence scandal began in ...
US says it shot down object over Alaska, size of small car
A US fighter jet on Friday shot down over Alaska a high-altitude object that was the size of a small car, on the order of President Joe Biden, the White ...
Children rescued from ruins days after earthquake, but death toll tops 23,700 (Update)
Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President ...
Olympics row deepens as 35 countries demand ban for Russia and Belarus
A group of 35 countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia, will demand that Russian and Belarusian athletes are banned from the 2024 Olympics, the Lithuanian sports minister said on Friday, ...
A boy and his boat help Chile firefighters combat blazes
As his parents fought wildfires threatening their home in southern Chile, 13-year-old Lucas Cespedes decided to take action, ferrying firefighters across the local river in a small yellow rowing boat ...
Paris man fires shots from balcony, police cordon off area
A man in Paris fired shots from his balcony window in Paris’ 15th district and the police have intervened, a police source said on Friday, adding no-one was injured.
The ...
Iran releases emaciated dissident after long hunger strike
Iran on Friday released hunger-striking jailed dissident Farhad Meysami, the Iranian judiciary said, a week after supporters had warned that he risked dying for protesting against the compulsory wearing of ...
Syrian baby born on day of earthquake brought mother ‘back to life’
When the earthquake struck, Fatmah Ahmad’s family fled their building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo only for her to go into labour – giving birth to her third ...
Turkey earthquake drone footage shows fissure slicing through land
Drone footage in southern Turkey showed a fissure slicing across fields, roads, streams and hillsides, caused by a massive earthquake that struck the region at the start of the week.
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UK rail workers union rejects new pay offers in long-running dispute
Britain’s biggest railway workers’ union rejected the latest pay offers from train companies on Friday, signalling more pain for commuters who have been disrupted by sporadic strikes since last ...
Palestinian driver ploughs into bus stop killing two Israelis
Two Israelis including a child were killed and several injured when a Palestinian driver rammed his car into a group of people at a bus stop on the outskirts of ...
Iran says it arrests those behind attack on military site, blames Israeli ‘mercenaries’
Iran’s security forces have arrested the “main perpetrators” of a drone attack on a military site in the central city of Isfahan, in which Israeli “mercenaries” were involved, state ...
UK economy shows zero Q4 growth, narrowly avoids recession
UK GDP shows zero growth in Q4 after 0.2 per cent fall in Q3
Output falls 0.5 per cent in December, partly due to strikes
Economy grows 4 per cent in 2022 but still ...
Hatayspor withdraw from Turkish league after earthquake
Hatayspor have withdrawn from the Turkish Super Lig following the devastating earthquake that hit the country this week, the president of the Turkish Union of Clubs Ali Koc said on ...