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Beleris was arrested in May 2023 during a mayoral election campaign in his hometown of Himare which has an active ethnic Greek community. He subsequently won, but was never sworn in ...

Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary into the military, a decree with the potential to divide Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Sergei Shoigu, the former Russian defence minister, and leading Russian general Valery Gerasimov on Tuesday for alleged crimes committed during Russia’s ...

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, said the eastward of expansion of the European Union and NATO had provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he is profoundly concerned by escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah and that U.N. peacekeepers are working to calm ...

British house prices rose for a second month in a row in April, increasing by an annual 1.1 per cent to an average of 281,000 pounds ($358,000) after a 0.9 per cent rise in ...

Russia sees a pressing need for security talks with the United States but they must be “comprehensive” and include the subject of Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday. “It is ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was “incredibly angry” to hear that three of his party colleagues were being investigated over allegedly placing bets on an early announcement of ...

Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat ...

Birth rates have dropped sharply in some of the world’s richest states and are likely to stay low as economic worries leave people weighing the costs of having children, ...

Ukrainians who fled their homes to escape Russia’s invasion have received better treatment than those displaced by other ongoing wars and emergencies, Europe’s top human rights group said ...

British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Thursday said it would be “very tough” for the Conservatives to win the July 4 election, after opinion polls predicted a landslide win for the opposition ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Tuesday to deepen trade and security ties with North Korea and to support it against the United States, as he headed to the reclusive ...

A 73-year-old French woman missing on the Greek island of Sikinos since Friday sent a distress message to her hotel before disappearing, the owner said on Tuesday. A search is ...

Palestinians in the Israeli occupied West Bank and East Jerusalemare suffering a drastically worsening human rights environment, alongside “unconscionable death and suffering” in the Gaza Strip, the U.N. human ...

European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this ...

Nigel Farage, whose entry into the election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s faint hopes of victory, set out his policy plans on Monday, describing them as the first ...

Russia said on Monday that a Swiss-hosted conference on the Ukraine war had produced negligible results and showed the futility of holding talks without Moscow. The Kremlin was commenting on ...

The United Nations Security Council will vote later on Monday on U.S.-drafted resolution backing a proposal outlined by President Joe Biden for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian ...

Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, led by Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, called on Monday for a £40 billion ($51 billion) tax cut for voters, funded by scrapping the interest paid to ...

 U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden will not testify when his criminal trial resumes on charges he hid his drug use from the government in 2018 to illegally ...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken blamed Hamas on Monday for holding up a ceasefire in Gaza, as the top U.S. diplomat conducted a Middle East peace mission ...

Russian politicians gloated on Monday over heavy defeats for the parties of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in European Parliament elections, and the Kremlin said right-wing ...

Political parties and business leaders alike tried to figure out what a possible far-right win could mean for France following President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to call a snap election ...