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TikTok buzzed with nervous anticipation across the US on Saturday as a looming federal ban threatened to sever access to the Chinese-owned app that has captivated nearly half of all ...

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem congratulated Palestinians on Saturday over the Gaza ceasefire deal, saying in a speech that it proved the “persistence of resistance” against Israel. The remarks were the ...

Around one in six British companies cut hiring late last year, the highest share since early 2021, according to a survey that showed firms felt pressure to raise prices due to ...

US small-business confidence surged to the highest level in just over six years in December, extending post election gains. The National Federation of Independent Business said this week that its ...

President-elect Donald Trump said his inauguration on Monday will take place inside the US Capitol rather than outdoors because of severe cold, the first time in 40 years that US presidential ...

A Florida jury on Friday found TV news provider CNN liable for defaming a US Navy veteran who helped evacuate people from Afghanistan after the US military withdrew from the ...

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Belgrade on Friday stood in silence in front of the state television RTS building for 15 minutes to commemorate victims of a railway station ...

Former Manchester United and Scotland forward Denis Law has died at the age of 84, the Premier League club said on Friday. “It is with a heavy heart that we tell ...

A former Mozambique finance minister was sentenced on Friday to eight-and-a-half years in prison after being found guilty of participating in a fraud involving $2 billion in loans to three state-owned ...

A CIA employee who was accused of leaking classified documents about Israel’s plans to strike Iran pleaded guilty on Friday to criminal charges that he wilfully retained and transmitted ...

The US Federal Reserve announced on Friday it had withdrawn from a global body of central banks and regulators devoted to exploring ways to police climate risk in the financial ...

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to rescue TikTok on Friday from a law that required the popular short-video app to be sold by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or ...

When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped being sent straight to the gas chambers with other children largely because her coat had been stolen in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday signed a 20-year strategic partnership treaty involving closer defence cooperation that is likely to worry the West. Pezeshkian, ...

Global diesel prices and refining margins spiked following the latest round of US sanctions on Russia’s oil trade on expectations the measures would tighten supplies, according to analysts and ...

A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment on Friday in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government ...

Three lawyers for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny were found guilty by a Russian court on Friday of belonging to an extremist group and sentenced to years in a ...

The Turkish foreign ministry on Thursday night condemned the United States’ decision to allow the Republic of Cyprus to purchase military hardware directly. “We condemn the decision made by the ...

Los Angeles officials told most evacuees from the wildfires o stay away from their homes at least another week as emergency responders remove toxic waste from incinerated neighborhoods and cut ...

The Israeli security cabinet has recommended approving the Gaza ceasefire and hostage return deal, ahead of a full cabinet meeting expected later on Friday, a statement from the prime minister’...

The Bank of England will cut interest rates four times this year to support a flat-lining economy, economists polled by Reuters said, but they added that risks to inflation are ...

Several journalists who are outspoken critics of U.S. support for Israel loudly lambasted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the war in Gaza on Thursday, repeatedly interrupting ...

Israel’s hardline National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said on Thursday he would resign from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government if it ratifies the ceasefire deal in Gaza, which ...

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia was ready to provide gas to Moldova’s breakaway Transdniestria region, but needed logistical support from Moldova to make that happen. Vadim Krasnoselsky, ...