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Nurses in Britain went on strike for the second time this month on Tuesday, and their union threatened to escalate a dispute over pay by setting out further strike days ...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said that more than 60 Russian “hostages” were serving prison sentences in the United States, the result of what he called an illegal global hunt ...

With rising interest rates and limited supply putting home ownership out of reach for a growing number of people in emerging Europe, global and local real estate investors are placing ...

Cities across China scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever screening clinics on Tuesday as the United States said Beijing’s surprise decision to let the virus run free ...

President Vladimir Putin said the situation in four areas of Ukraine that Moscow has declared are part of Russia was “extremely difficult” and ordered security services to step up surveillance ...

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of rape and two other sexual assault counts by a Los Angeles jury on Monday, marking the second conviction of the onetime ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart extolled ever-closer ties on Monday as Putin visited Minsk for the first time since 2019, hardly mentioning the war raging in nearby Ukraine ...

Varosha will soon become one of the most beautiful and sophisticated tourist centres in the world, Justice and Development Party Deputy Chairman Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday. The Turkish politician ...

The U.S. House of Representatives panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol asked federal prosecutors on Monday to charge Donald Trump with four crimes, including obstruction and insurrection, ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will convene a “no-nonsense” climate ambition summit in September next year and warned on Monday that there will be “no room for back-sliders, greenwashers, blame-shifters” ...

European Union energy ministers on Monday agreed a gas price cap, after weeks of talks on the emergency measure that has split opinion across the bloc as it seeks to ...

Shareholders in Uniper UN01.DE on Monday approved a state bailout that has so far cost the German government more than 50 billion euros ($53 billion), paving the way for a de ...

Britain‘s government said on Monday that it would freeze taxes on alcohol until August, reversing a decision taken only two months ago by finance minister Jeremy Hunt and partially ...

Russia hit key energy infrastructure in and around Kyiv in a “kamikaze” drone attack on Monday, hours before President Vladimir Putin arrived in Belarus, heightening Ukrainian fears he will pressure ...

British television presenter Jeremy Clarkson said on Monday he was “horrified to have caused so much hurt” after a column he wrote in the Sun newspaper about Prince Harry’s ...

New York City police arrested a woman caught stealing presents from beneath Robert De Niro’s Christmas tree after breaking into the actor’s apartment on the Upper East Side ...

A top Turkish prosecutor requested that the Constitutional Court block the bank accounts belonging to the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), broadcaster Haberturk reported on Monday, as part of a ...

“Fortnite” creator Epic Games will pay $520 million to settle allegations that it illegally collected children’s personal information and tricked people into making purchases, the Federal Trade Commission and the ...

Teenaged boys in the United States are increasingly becoming ensnared in online financial “sextortion schemes,” impacting at least 3,000 victims and leading to more than a dozen suicides so far, U....

Nicola Osypka’s German company has been selling medical devices used in surgery on newborn babies in Europe for decades, but new European Union rules have forced her to make ...

A revamp of Spain’s labour rules has led to a 142 per cent rise in young workers with permanent contracts in a country where rates of youth unemployment and under-employment ...

In Britain, the damage wrought by rampant inflation can be seen in the fate of the humble egg. With war in Ukraine driving energy and chicken feed costs higher, farmers ...

Sweden’s Supreme Court on Monday said it had blocked the extradition of a Turkish man accused by Ankara of taking part in a coup attempt in 2016. The court said ...

German business morale rose more than expected in December as Europe’s largest economy approached the end of the year with an improved outlook despite the energy crisis and high ...