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Rates of obesity and overweight are spiralling due to a “monumental societal failure” to tackle the problem, with more than half of adults and almost a third of children and ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada took effect on Tuesday, along with a doubling of duties on Chinese goods to 20%, sparking trade ...

Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces could hold their own on the battlefield as they fight Russian troops after U.S. President Donald Trump paused military aid to Kyiv in ...

Britain said on Monday there were several possible proposals on the table for a possible Ukraine ceasefire, after France floated a proposal for a month-long initial truce that could pave ...

Israeli troops demolished houses and cleared a wide roadway through the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in a weeks-long operation against militant groups that has forced ...

A car drove into a crowd in the western German city of Mannheim on Monday, killing at least two peopleandseriously injuring several others, local media reported, overshadowing carnival celebrations in ...

Israeli fire killed at least two people in Rafah and injured three others in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, raising fears among Palestinians that the ceasefire could collapse ...

The Kremlin said on Monday that someone needed to force Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make peace after a clash with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office ...

By Emily Rose, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jaidaa Taha Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for ...

By Guy Faulconbridge Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s “common sense” aim to end the war in Ukraine, but accused the European ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will try to revive hope for peace in Ukraine at a meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other Western leaders on Sunday, two days after the ...

Russia reacted with glee to the bitter clash between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the White House, saying the Ukrainian leader got what he deserved. The acrimonious shouting match ...

Billionaire Elon Musk, who is a close adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, has another child, his 14th. His latest child, a son, is with Shivon Zilis, an executive ...

The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency closeto it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s disarmament call, in a ...

By Marios Eliades Eighty years have already gone by since those who conceived the European idea, Jean Monnet, Robert Schumann, Altiero Spinelli, Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer and others, laid the ...

Russian and U.S. teams held six hours of talks in Turkey on Thursday to try to restore normal functioning of their embassies, and Vladimir Putin said initial contacts with ...

Turkey’s jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara ...

Greece’s worst rail disaster in 2023 was caused by chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, investigators said on Thursday. On February 28, 2023, a passenger ...

Gene Hackman, the intense character actor who won two Oscars in a more than 60-year career, has died alongside his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog at home, the ...

Israelis mourned the family that symbolised the trauma their country suffered in the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023, as the Palestinian militant group agreed to free the last hostage bodies included ...

Britain’s Heathrow Airport forecast slower passenger growth in 2025, highlighting the need for a new runway weeks after the government threw its weight behind expansion at the hub as it ...

Three men went on trial in an English court on charges stemming from the heist of an 18-carat golden toilet that had been on display as an artwork in an ...

Ukraine said on Wednesday it was set to approve a framework minerals deal with the United States but that its success would depend on talks with President Donald Trump. The ...

Companies who use the genetic coding of the natural world to design products ranging from weight-loss drugs to cosmetics faced renewed calls on Tuesday to help pay to protect it ...