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Americans believe that wealthy and powerful people are rarely held accountable, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found after the release of millions of records on the late sex offender Jeffrey ...

A German appeals court has ordered social media platform X to give vetted researchers access to publicly available data linked to Hungary’s April 12 election, setting a precedent for enforcing ...

Iranians have returned to the streets this week to mourn those killed by security forces during last month’s anti-government demonstrations, sparking some new crackdowns in an echo of the 1979 ...

British inflation fell to its lowest since March last year, according to official data that added to expectations of an interest rate cut soon by the Bank of England, even ...

A husky with lots of enthusiasm but no credentials gatecrashed a women’s team sprint cross-country race on Wednesday, giving an impromptu performance that had spectators howling with delight. The ...

As the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan began in Gaza on Wednesday, Palestinians headed to the shattered ruins of mosques or to makeshift prayer spaces made of tarpaulins and wood, ...

A Turkish parliamentary commission voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to approve a report envisaging legal reforms alongside the militant Kurdistan Workers Party’s (PKK) disarmament, advancing a peace process meant to ...

Ukraine officials will boycott the Milano Cortina Paralympics next month over the participation of a handful of Russian and Belarusian athletes cleared to compete under their flags, Ukraine’s Sports ...

Peace talks between Ukraine and Russia in Geneva ended abruptly on Wednesday after only two hours, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying that the discussions had been “difficult” and accusing ...

The departure of the chief executive of Dubai port giant DP World is the biggest fallout in the Middle East from U.S. Department of Justice documents which show that ...

Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender says it had uncovered a wave of online scams using near-identical sites to the official Milano Cortina 2026 merchandise store to trick shoppers in Europe and the United ...

Every year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state ...

President Donald Trump said relations between the United States and Greece are “stronger than ever” during the presentation of credentials by Greece’s new ambassador to Washington, Antonis Alexandrides. Speaking ...

Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett warned on Tuesday that Recep Tayyip Erdogan is positioning Turkey as a major strategic threat to Israel, describing Ankara as “the new Iran”. Speaking ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said U.S. President Donald Trump was exerting undue pressure on Kyiv to move quickly toward a resolution of the nearly four-year war with Moscow, as ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Israel’s recognition of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland would not benefit Somaliland or the region. In December, Erdogan had said Israel’...

Two separate avalanches in the French Alps killed three people and left four wounded, local authorities and French media said on Tuesday. Around midday, a large slide, about 300 metres wide, ...

Parts of the Strait of Hormuz will close for a few hours on Tuesday due to ‘security precautions’ for shipping safety, semi-official Fars news agency reported, as the Revolutionary Guards ...

The Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin), which convened under the Cyprus Presidency on Tuesday, has agreed on a €90 billion loan package for Ukraine to cover the country’s financing ...

Iran and the United States reached an understanding on the main “guiding principles” in a second round of indirect talks over their nuclear dispute on Tuesday, but that does not ...

New Mexico lawmakers have passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey ...

Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party named Robert Jenrick as its finance policy chief on Tuesday, as leader Nigel Farage made the first announcement of who would be in his ...

Governments and regulators around the world are cracking down on sexually explicit content generated by Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok on X, launching probes, imposing bans and demanding safeguards ...

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran ...