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Consumers in Britain held off on much of their non-essential spending last month as rising prices for motor fuel compounded the broader hit from the high cost of living, according ...

Labour’s finance policy chief Rachel Reeves promised on Monday to “rebuild Britain” if in government, vowing to deploy “iron-clad” fiscal rules, crack down on fraud and work with business ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday linked the assault by Hamas on Israel with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and criticised Iran over both conflicts. Israel was caught off ...

The Israeli military said it had called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists and was imposing a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, in a sign it may be planning a ground ...

In a burial plot next to a field outside the remote Ukrainian hamlet of Hroza, residents removed undergrowth and cleared away litter to make space for more graves. Working quietly, ...

Poland accused Berlin and Brussels of imposing a migration “diktat” on the European Union and Hungary said the bloc was forcing through a deal as EU leaders gathered to tackle ...

Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian women’s rights advocate serving 12 years in jail, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a decision likely to anger Tehran. The award-making committee urged ...

Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the award-giving body said on Thursday. ...

A Russian missile slammed into a cafe and grocery store in a village in northeastern Ukraine on Thursday, killing 51 people during a gathering to mourn a fallen Ukrainian soldier, Ukrainian ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thurday he had met Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit in Spain, and discussed the security ...

Britain’s government on Wednesday proposed banning younger generations from ever buying cigarettes, a move that would give the country some of the world’s toughest smoking rules and hurt ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday that “a man is a man and a woman is a woman” and people should not be bullied into believing they can ...

Recovering from his third battlefield injury, Oleksandr Yabchanka had a warning for those Ukrainians he said may be burying their heads in the sand over the war with Russia. “Guys, ...

Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts. They’re among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who’ve been pressed into Russian penal units known as “Storm-Z” squads and sent to the ...

A mummified man known as Stoneman Willie will receive a proper burial after being on display at a funeral home in Reading, Pennsylvania, for 128 years. The unidentified man was an ...

Turkish police detained about 145 people across the country overnight suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), state media reported on Tuesday, two days after a bomb attack ...

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt set out plans on Monday to cut the number of public officials working in government to save 1 billion pounds, an attempt to appease critics in the ...

Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in ...

EU foreign ministers convened in Kyiv for their first ever meeting outside the bloc on Monday, broadcasting their support after a pro-Russian candidate won an election in Slovakia and the ...

A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported, as a mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region began drawing to a close following a Azerbaijani ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday there were no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, rowing back from reported comments by his defence minister that he ...

Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara on Sunday, leaving both of them dead and two police officers wounded, and a Kurdish militant group ...

Private Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is in U.S. custody and heading home after being expelled by North Korea into China, ...

Spain’s rightwing opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo on Tuesday launched a likely fruitless bid to form a government following a July election in which no party won a majority. ...