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Britain on Tuesday set a target to cut emissions by around 87% by 2040 from 1990 levels as it increases efforts to meet net zero goals that it says will help to curb ...

Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the United States to halt the war between the two countries, Iran’s Mehr news reported on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald ...

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles early on Tuesday in attacks that authorities said killed 18 people and wounded more than 100. The attacks on cities including ...

The medieval Beaufort Castle’s stone ramparts tower so far above south Lebanon that Israel could hail their capture as a strategic victory, even as it evoked the miseries of ...

The founder of an online Indian youth group that has amassed millions of followers in days said on Monday he plans to take his movement on to the streets with ...

Britain has blocked Cenk Uygur, a left-wing Turkish-American media personality, and his nephew, Hasan Piker, a U.S. left-wing commentator and influencer, from entering the country to speak at events, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday, signalling further escalation of a war that has complicated mediation towards resolving the U....

Iran is halting indirect negotiations with the U.S. after Israel ordered troops to push deeper into Lebanon to battle Tehran-backed Hezbollah, the Iranian news agency Tasnim said on Monday, ...

More than 200 people were injured and one person died in Paris following Paris Saint-Germain’s second consecutive Champions League win, the interior ministry said on Sunday, reviving France’s heated ...

US rapper Kanye West, who has been barred from performing in several countries due to past antisemitic comments, drew more than 100,000 fans to a concert in Istanbul on Saturday night. ...

The death toll from a chemical tank rupture in the US state of Washington climbed to 11 as crews recovered the bodies of all nine missing people, authorities said on Saturday. ...

The US is ready to restart attacks on Iran if a deal cannot be reached, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday, as negotiators from Washington and Tehran worked to ...

Ukrainian drone strikes hit Russia’s oil infrastructure overnight, damaging a tanker and an oil refinery in Taganrog and striking an oil depot in Armavir, Russian regional officials and Ukrainian ...

Iran said on Friday it was looking for actions, not words from the United States after sources said President Donald Trump was weighing an initial US-Iranian agreement to extend a ...

The World Health Organisation said on Friday that there were 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including 223 suspected deaths that were being investigated. An outbreak of ...

Poland’s president said on Friday he wanted a state body to discuss stripping Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Poland’s top honour, after Ukraine renamed an army unit after ...

An uncrewed Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded on the launchpad during a test on Thursday, in a major setback for Jeff Bezos’ space venture as it seeks to narrow ...

Ukraine will buy 20 new Gripen fighter jets and Sweden will donate 16 of an older model next year, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said ...

Iran targeted a US air base in Kuwait on Thursday after the United States struck what Washington described as an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz and President ...

Italy’s finance police on Thursday said they had seized assets and companies worth more than €200 million ($232 million) in an investigation into the laundering of drug trafficking proceeds linked to ...

Ukraine’s parliament ratified a loan agreement with the European Union on Thursday, paving the way for €90 billion in financing and allowing the government to channel record funds to defence ...

Russia signed an agreement on Thursday with Kazakhstan to build the first nuclear power plant in Central Asia’s largest country at a cost of about $16.5 billion, partially covered by ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged U.S. President Donald Trump to help Ukraine with air defence systems and interceptors as Russia threatens new strikes, saying that ballistic missiles remain Moscow’s “...

In an Ebola outbreak, hours matter. Yet the response to the deadly and fast-spreading epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is weeks if not months behind – and missing thousands ...