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British services firms in February cut staff at the fastest pace since 2020 ahead of tax and minimum-wage hikes that come into effect next month, an industry survey showed this week. ...

Russian troops have launched a large-scale offensive to retake swaths of the western Kursk region from Ukrainian forces, war bloggers and a senior Russian commander said on Saturday. Ukrainian troops ...

A man waving a Palestinian flag climbed the Big Ben tower at London’s Palace of Westminster early on Saturday, with local media reporting he shouted “free Palestine”. A spokesman ...

The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said on Saturday they sup-ported an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid displacing Palestinians ...

At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s eastern city of Dobropillia and a settlement in Kharkiv region overnight, ...

Gunmen and security forces linked to Syria’s new Islamist rulers have killed more than 340 people, including women and children from the Alawite minority, in the country’s coastal region ...

Britain’s Heathrow Airport is weighing changes to its previous expansion blueprint in a bid to cut costs and has been evaluating options such as building a shorter third runway, ...

The Turkish Cypriot side will act “in a constructive manner” at the forthcoming enlarged meeting on the Cyprus problem to be held in the Swiss city of Geneva, Turkish Cypriot ...

The British government is planning to make more than £6 billion in welfare savings, ITV News reported on Friday, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves seeks to balance the books. ...

Heavy rains in the Argentine port city of Bahia Blanca, southwest of capital Buenos Aires, led to six deaths and caused substantial flooding, local media and officials said on Friday. ...

Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led ...

Tens of thousands of people marched through Belgrade on Friday to mark the deaths of 15 victims in a railway station disaster and to support a student-led call for a general ...

An Israeli drone strike killed two people in Gaza on Friday, local Palestinian medical authorities said, underscoring the uncertainty surrounding a fragile ceasefire deal that has halted fighting in the ...

Iran’s foreign ministry warned on Friday that violence in Syria could cause regional instability, state media reported, amid reports of fighting in western Syria. It was the first comment ...

The United Kingdom’s minister of state for Europe Stephen Doughty had “very constructive meetings” on Friday in Nicosia, “particularly discussing issues relating to our bilateral relationship, the geopolitical circumstances ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is “strongly considering” imposing sanctions, including ones on banking, and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and peace agreement is ...

Three weeks to the day after being admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis is still struggling to shake off the double pneumonia that has battered his already fragile ...

European football’s governing body UEFA on Friday lost its bid to throw out lawsuits brought by hundreds of Liverpool fans who attended the 2022 Champions League final in Paris for ...

U.S. President Donald Trump cast doubt on on his willingness to defend Washington’s NATO allies, saying he would not do so if they are not paying enough for ...

South Carolina plans to execute a man convicted of two murders by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, ...

A limited number of older Palestinians were allowed into Jerusalem on the first Friday of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, in a wary climate stirred by a standoff over the ...

Russian forces damaged Ukrainian energy and gas infrastructure overnight in their first major missile attack since the U.S. paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, piling pressure on Kyiv as President ...

The discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War Two has disrupted morning traffic to and from Paris’ bustling Gare du Nord train station, the French national railway ...

Greece’s dependent transmission system operator Admie’s decision to temporarily suspend payments to French technology company Nexans for the manufacture and installation of submarine cables for the Great Sea ...