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Brazilian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to shorten the prison sentence of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, although the bill is likely to face resistance from senators, the Supreme Court and ...

European Union officials have held multiple, undisclosed meetings with the tobacco industry, which uses political connections to try to influence policy in the bloc and beyond, a report by campaign ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he had discussed with Ukraine’s parliament legal and other issues linked to the possibility of holding an election and urged other countries, including ...

Hungary’s government has put state-run juvenile detention centres under direct police oversight, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Wednesday, trying to stem the political fallout ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Wednesday that Europe was strong and he would stand up for its values of freedom and democracy after US President Donald Trump said ...

Dozens of Greek farmers disrupted operations at the regional port of Volos on Wednesday as part of a nationwide demonstration to protest delays in farm aid payments and high production ...

Australia became on Wednesday the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access in a move welcomed by many parents and child advocates but criticised by major ...

Israel is set to reopen the Allenby Crossing with Jordan to the passage of goods and aid on Wednesday, an Israeli security official said on Tuesday. The border crossing has ...

Greek farmers continued their nationwide blockades on Tuesday, disrupting traffic along major motorways and intermittently closing border crossings to protest delays in farm aid payments. Farmers have deployed thousands of ...

Lithuania’s government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency over smuggler balloons originating in Belarus that have disrupted aviation,and asked parliament to allow the military to operate alongside ...

“If you’re on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you’re an immediate threat to the United States,” said US Secretary ...

President Donald Trump called a fine imposed on Elon Musk’s social media company X by European Union tech regulators “a nasty one” and said he did not understand how ...

Greek farmers disrupted traffic at border crossings and at an airport on the island of Crete on Monday, as well as blocking roads across the country, as they stepped up ...

A tsunami as high as three metres (10 feet) could hit Japan’s northeastern coast after an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.6 occurred offshore on Monday, the Japan Meteorological Agency (...

The United Nations appealed on Monday for a 2026 aid budget only half the size of what it had hoped for this year, acknowledging a plunge in donor funding at a ...

Military action against Cambodia will continue until Thailand’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are secured, Thailand’s foreign ministry said on Monday. Foreign ministry spokesman Nikorndej Balankura said Cambodia had “...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said negotiators remain split over territorial concessions in a US-brokered peace plan, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing a phone interview with Zelenskiy. Elements of the ...

United States President Donald Trump’s outgoing Ukraine envoy said a deal to end the Ukraine war was “really close” and now depended on resolving two main outstanding issues: the ...

Bucharest could become the first European Union capital led by a hard-right mayor in Sunday’s local election, a contest which threatens Romania’s fragile pro-European coalition government. The influential ...

Four people were arrested at London’s Tower of London after they threw food at a display case containing the Imperial State Crown, police said on Saturday, leading to a ...

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump’s directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts ...

Meghan Markle has sought to make contact with her estranged father Thomas Markle after he was reported to have had a leg amputated in the Philippines, a spokesperson for Meghan ...

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday that the United States remains Europe’s biggest ally, after the Trump administration said in a major strategy document that ...

United States President Donald Trump said he was not attending the draw for the 2026 World Cup to receive a prize, but he got one anyway. Trump, who has campaigned aggressively ...