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Tony Blair has said that the best way to understand a country’s development and prosperity is to calculate how many people want to leave it, but also how many ...

Globally, obesity is likely now more prevalent among school-aged children and adolescents than being underweight, according to a new report from UNICEF which blamed increasingly unhealthy food environments worldwide for ...

The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza said they were fearful for the fate of their loved ones after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to launch strikes on ...

Britain’s ambassador to the U.S., Peter Mandelson, has said he deeply regrets ever meeting convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and that he had carried on that association “for ...

If Israel failed to kill Hamas leaders in an air strike on Qatar on Tuesday, it would succeed next time, the Israeli ambassador to the United States said after the ...

After pro-Palestinian protesters forced a premature end to yet another stage of the Vuelta a Espana on Tuesday, race director Javier Guillen said the intention is to finish the race ...

Soldiers guarded Nepal’s parliament and patrolled deserted streets on Wednesday amid a curfew in the capital Kathmandu, after two days of deadly anti-corruption protests forced Prime Minister K.P. ...

Protesters across France obstructed highways, burned barricades and clashed sporadically with police on Wednesday in a show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron, the political elite and planned spending cuts. ...

President Donald Trump said Israel’s decision to strike Qatar was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not by the Republican leader who added that a unilateral attack on ...

Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance ...

British shoppers spent more in August, helped by summer weather and stronger demand for food, furniture and back-to-school computers – though some of the increase reflected higher food prices too, the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron named loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one-time conservative protege who rallied behind his 2017 presidential run, as prime minister on Tuesday, defying expectations he might tack towards the ...

Israel launched an airstrike against arch foe Hamas leaders in Qatar on Tuesday, expanding military actions that have ranged across the Middle East to include the Gulf Arab state where ...

International Criminal Court judges on Tuesday began hearings to finalise charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Legal experts say the proceedings could act as a blueprint for other high-profile ...

Pig heads appeared outside several mosques around Paris on Tuesday, authorities said, decrying the insult to Muslims. France has Europe’s largest population of Muslims, over 6 million, for whom pigs ...

A Russian air strike killed more than 20 civilians who were collecting their pensions in a village in eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday. He called for pressure by ...

Palestinians living in the ruins of Gaza City were bombarded with Israeli leaflets on Tuesday ordering them out, after Israel said it was about to obliterate the area in an ...

Commuters in London turned to bikes, buses and boats on Tuesday as a staff strike shut down the capital’s underground Tube network for a second day. With almost no ...

A group called Amerikaners, set up by white South Africans hoping to take up President Donald Trump’s offer of resettlement, has been enlisted by his administration to help identify ...

The Murdoch family has reached a deal that will see Rupert Murdoch’s politically conservative eldest son Lachlan Murdoch cement control of the family media empire which includes Fox News ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking his fifth prime minister in less than two years after opposition parties united to kick out centre-right Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his unpopular ...

Anti-corruption demonstrators in Nepal defied an indefinite curfew on Tuesday, holding demonstrations and shouting slogans against Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli, a day after 19 people died in violent protests ...

An earthquake rattled Athens on Tuesday morning with no reports of any damage or fatalities. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the quake, of magnitude 5.2, was off Evia island about 50 km (31 ...

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday made public a birthday letter Donald Trump allegedly wrote to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein more than 20 years ago, though the ...