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Senior Sri Lankan lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena was sworn in on Friday as the new prime minister, his office said, a day after the swearing-in of a new president as the ...

Russia will consider a request from Hungary to buy more Russian gas, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after meeting his Hungarian counterpart in Moscow. Lavrov was speaking during a ...

Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will sign a deal on Friday to resume Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s office said ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman spoke by phone on Thursday and underlined the importance of further cooperation within the OPEC+ group of oil producers, ...

Russia’s military is likely to start an operational pause of some kind in Ukraine in the coming weeks, giving Kyiv a key opportunity to strike back, Britain’s spy ...

A missing turbine that Moscow says has caused the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to pump less gas to Europe is stuck in transit in Germany because Russia has so far not ...

London is losing its allure as a destination for corrupt Russian elites and other kleptocrats with the aid of new powers and a crackdown on “enablers” who help them channel ...

Italy’s national elections will be held on Sept. 25, the journalist who covers the Italian presidency for state broadcaster RAI said on Thursday. Earlier Italian President Sergio Mattarella dissolved parliament , ...

The vast heatwave covering swathes of Europe moved steadily eastwards on Thursday, forcing countries including Italy, Poland and Slovenia to issue their highest heatwave alerts as firefighters battled wildfires across ...

Joe Biden, the oldest person ever to serve as president of the United States, has tested positive for COVID-19, is experiencing mild symptoms and will continue working but in isolation, ...

Cyprus has already overcome the loss of Russian maritime trade due to European sanctions and the Mediterranean shipping hub is chasing business expansion in Japan and elsewhere in Asia as ...

Royal Mail is losing one million pounds a day, the British post and parcel delivery firm said, as it struggles to cut costs as inflation-hit consumers cut back on online ...

The European Central Bank raised interest rates by more than expected on Thursday, confirming that concerns about runaway inflation now trump growth considerations, even as the euro zone economy reels ...

Microsoft’s MS Teams was back up for most users, the company said on Thursday, after an hours-long outage that disrupted the chat application for tens of thousands of customers ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Western sanctions imposed on Russia over its actions in Ukraine would not cause it to change course. In a call with reporters, ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in good health, dismissing what it called false reports he was unwell. “Everything is fine with his health,” Kremlin ...

Russia and Ukraine will sign a deal on Friday to reopen Ukraine‘s Black Sea ports to grain exports, Turkey said, raising hopes that an international food crisis caused by ...

Britain’s handling of migrants who arrive by small boats from Northern France has been unacceptable, ineffective and inefficient, an independent inspection published on Thursday said. The number of people ...

The Spanish government will not order consumers to limit their gas consumption, Energy Minister Teresa Ribera said on Thursday, after Spain said it would oppose a European Union proposal to ...

Ukraine’s central bank devalued the hryvnia currency by 25% against the U.S. dollar on Thursday to help the country cope with the growing economic impact of the war with ...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday after his unity government fell apart, plunging the country into political turmoil and hitting financial ...

Iraq’s government will call back the Iraqi charge d’affaires in Turkey for consultation after accusing Ankara of carrying out a strike on a mountain resort in the northern ...

Italy‘s government crumbled on Wednesday when three of Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s main coalition partners snubbed a confidence vote he had called to try to end divisions and ...

U.S. President Joe Biden plans to speak with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, by the end of the month at a moment of simmering tensions between the countries over ...