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The Kremlin on Friday denied reports that President Vladimir Putinhad asked leading businessmen to donate money to stabilise Russia’s finances as it presses on with the war in Ukraine. ...

Ukraine and Saudi Arabia have signed an agreement on defence cooperation that lays the foundation for future contracts, technological cooperation and investments, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. During an ...

US President Donald Trump said he would again extend a deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz or face the destruction of its energy plants, after Tehran earlier ...

A U.S. judge questioned on Thursday the U.S. government’s justification for blocking ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from using the South American country’s funds to ...

Israel has said it will seize a chunk of southern Lebanon to create a ‘buffer zone’ against Hezbollah militants, stoking fears among Lebanese of Israeli military occupation that could deepen ...

The Iran conflict is causing a rise in tourist cancellations and a dive in new bookings in Cyprus and to a lesser extent other countries whose economies rely heavily on ...

Jurors in the first two trials in the U.S. from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over harm to children have found Meta and Alphabet’s ...

Iran is still reviewing a U.S. proposal to end the war in the Gulf, despite an initial response that was negative, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, ...

Gulf Arab states told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday they face an existential threat from Iranian attacks on their infrastructure, which the U.N. rights chief said ...

Sarah Mullally will be enthroned as the Church of England’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide in a ceremony mixing tradition with global ...

Russian attacks damaged two energy facilitiesin Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, leaving close to 212,000 consumers without power, a regional electricity distribution company said on Wednesday. Chernihivoblenergo said nearly 150,000 consumers in ...

A 31-year-old Georgia woman has been charged with murder after she took abortion medication and gave birth to a premature infant who died within hours, according to court documents and ...

Australia and the European Union signed a trade deal on Tuesday that was eight years in the making, removing tariffs for almost all European goods and for nearly all exports ...

Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said there had been “very good and productive” talks aiming at halting the ...

Ukraine’s military intelligence has “irrefutable” evidence that Russia continues to provide intelligence to Iran and such activity can only prolong the war in the Middle East, Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Discount airline easyJet’s CEO said on Monday that ticket prices will rise towards the end of the summer due to the Iran war, adding that the conflict was driving ...

Iran denied on Monday that it had engaged in negotiations with the United States, after President Donald Trump postponed a threat to bomb Iran’s power grid because of what ...

The long-awaited trial over a train crash that killed 57 people in Greece in 2023 was adjourned soon after opening on Monday due to poor courtroom conditions and amid protests outside against ...

Campaigners for slavery reparations and scholars have criticised the British monarchy after King Charles posed with Caribbean officials at a London reception beneath a portrait of George IV, who profited ...

The war in the Middle East has triggered a nightmare scenario for the global energy system, slashing so much supply that consumers around the world must both pay up big ...

An Iranian man and a Romanian woman have been charged after attempting to enter Britain’s nuclear submarine base in Scotland, Police Scotland said on Saturday. The two, who British ...

The British government gave authorisation on Friday for the United States to use military bases in Britain to carry out strikes on Iranian missile sites that are attacking ships in ...

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has warned her Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi against further attacks on British bases, the United Kingdom’s foreign office said on Friday, with the Akrotiri ...

The U.S. military is deploying a large amphibious assault ship with thousands of additional Marines and sailors to the Middle East, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday, ...