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At least nine Iraqi federal policemen were killed on Sunday after a bomb struck their convoy southwest of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, two security sources told Reuters. The blast ...

One person was killed and four people were wounded by shelling in the southern Russian region of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine on Sunday, the governor of the region ...

England manager Gareth Southgate has decided to stay on and lead the campaign for the 2024 European Championship, the Football Association (FA) said on Sunday. The popular 52-year-old led England to ...

By Guy Faulconbridge The time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but dreams of breaking up Russia could unleash ...

By Heekyong Yang and Junko Fujita North Korea fired two ballistic missiles towards the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast on Sunday, said South Korea and Japan, prompting ...

By Sabine Siebold and Kate Abnett European Union negotiators reached a political deal on Sunday to overhaul the bloc’s carbon market, cutting planet-heating emissions faster and imposing new CO2 ...

Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the country’s troops involved in Moscow’s “special military operation” in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Sunday. “The head of the ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive board has approved a 46-month $3 billion financial support package for Egypt, saying it will catalyse additional funding of about $14 billion, the fund said in ...

Like many economists, Vanguard’s Joe Davis thinks the United States will experience a recession in 2023, and like many of his colleagues he does not think it will be a ...

Leo Varadkar was elected Irish prime minister for the second time on Saturday, taking over from Micheál Martin under a novel rotation arrangement struck between their two parties – once ...

One of Mexico’s most notorious prisons begins a new chapter this weekend as a Pacific Ocean getaway after a makeover aimed at bringing in tourists to the former penal ...

Party allies, and even some rivals, of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday condemned opponents who disrupted his opening speech with chants and shouting at a conference of the ...

President Vladimir Putin has sought proposals from his armed forces commanders on how they think Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine should proceed during a visit to the operation’s ...

The Pentagon’s new push to investigate reports of UFOs has so far not yielded any evidence to suggest that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed here, senior military leaders ...

Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century. ...

Elon Musk reinstated the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended for a day over a controversy on publishing public data about the billionaire’s plane. The reinstatements came ...

The average price for Russia’s Urals oil blend was $57.49 per barrel between Nov. 15 and Dec. 14, Russia’s Finance Ministry said late on Thursday, below the Western cap of $60. That ...

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will limit ticket sales for flights to London’s Heathrow Airport during planned strikes by border agents over Christmas and New Year’s Eve to ...

Pressure rose on Peru’s fledgling government Friday as two cabinet members resigned following deadly protests that have rocked the country since former President Pedro Castillo’s removal from office ...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday condemned an apparent assassination attempt on a prominent news anchor and critic of the president who said assailants had opened fire on ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday approved postponing – for the second time – a decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations ...

Libya’s Government of National Unity (GNU) refused an Egyptian presidency decree unilaterally demarcating Egypt’s western maritime borders, the Libyan foreign ministry said in a statement on its Facebook ...

A 4.1 magnitude quake shook southeastern Afghanistan on Friday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Strong shaking was felt by Reuters witnesses in the Afghan capital Kabul. The quake ...

The U.S. State Department on Friday launched its long-planned “China House” unit, an internal reorganization to help expand and sharpen its policymaking toward its top geopolitical rival. Secretary of ...