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President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Monday that the United States and Iran were poised to begin direct talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, but Iran’s foreign ...

Germany’s would-be Chancellor Friedrich Merz sought to recapture the political agenda on Monday, promising renewed focus on competitiveness after a bruising weekend that saw the far-right draw level in ...

President Vladimir Putin still supports the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but Russia has not yet been given answers to key questions it has about a truce proposed by ...

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT Recently, the United States has imposed tariffs on all its trading partners, including China, under various pretexts. This severely infringes upon the legitimate rights and ...

A second child with measles has died in Texas, state officials said on Sunday, in an outbreak of the childhood disease that has resulted in nearly 500 cases in Texas and ...

Palestinian militant group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel’s south late on Sunday in response to Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’...

US President Donald Trump warned foreign governments they would have to pay “a lot of money” to lift sweeping tariffs, characterising the duties as “medicine” and triggering further carnage across ...

Major stock indexes plunged in Asia on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump showed no sign of backing away from his sweeping tariff plans, and investors bet the mounting ...

European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, likely approving a first set of targeted countermeasures ...

Turkey’s main opposition leader on Sunday pledged further protests against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief rival, aiming to sustain Turkey’s biggest demonstrations ...

By Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol More integrated EU defence policy implies greater foreign-policy integration and a larger role for the European Parliament to provide accountability.  The current debates about bolstering the European ...

Prices in British shops fell less in March than in February and are likely to climb soon due to the impact of a new tax on employers and other costs ...

British house prices were flat in March and the market is likely to stay soft after a tax increase on property transactions, mortgage lender Nationwide said this week. A Reuters ...

Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday Ukraine had increased its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, hitting targets 14 times in the last 24 hours, despite a U.S.-brokered moratorium, a ...

Hundreds of thousands marched across 40 Spanish cities on Saturday to protest against soaring rents and a lack of affordable homes in a country that enjoys Europe’s fastest economic growth ...

By Antoni Slodkowski China said on Saturday “the market has spoken” in rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, and called on Washington for “equal-footed consultation” after global markets ...

Three U.S. aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country’s massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump ...

The US Senate approved a Republican budget blueprint early on Saturday that aims to extend trillions of dollars worth of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and sharply reduce government ...

U.S. customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump’s unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due ...

British manufacturers endured a torrid March as the US tariff threat and looming tax increases at home contributed to a plunge in new orders and ebbing optimism, a business survey ...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was hit with an expanded federal indictment on Friday, charging the hip-hop mogul with five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking. Combs, 55, previously pleaded not guilty ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that European military planners could be ready within a month with details of a foreign troop contingent in Ukraine seen as critical to ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about the approach to US tariffs on Friday, saying they agreed an “...

Four private astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Friday after roughly four days orbiting the planet in a novel polar trajectory, walking out of their spacecraft with ...