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Oil slumped on Monday over concerns about spreading Covid-19 variants derailing the global economic recovery that has brought fuel demand to near pre-pandemic levels, while tight crude supplies kept prices ...

Cuba blamed historic protests that took place over the weekend on U.S. “economic asphyxiation” and detained some of the highest profile activists, while the Biden administration said it supported ...

At least 44 people were killed and over 67 injured in a fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a coronavirus hospital in Iraq‘s southern city of Nassiriya, health ...

By Michael Holden and Mitch Phillips Black players in the England soccer team have been subjected to a storm of online racist abuse after their defeat in the final of ...

British police have so far arrested a total of 86 people during and following Sunday’s Euro 2020 soccer final between Italy and England, they said on Monday. The Metropolitan Police said ...

By Gabriela Baczynska The European Union’s executive missed its own deadline to sign off on billions of euros in economic recovery aid to Hungary, delaying its decision in an ...

By Ingrid Melander and Geert De Clercq COVID-19 jabs will be mandatory for France’s health workers and anyone wanting to get into a cinema or board a train will ...

Jamaica plans to ask Britain for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said, under a petition that could seek billions of ...

Greece has made vaccinations against COVID-19 mandatory for certain workers and announced restrictions to contain the spread of the virus as infections have kept rising during the vital summer tourism ...

A WHO epidemiologist said she had been devastated to watch unmasked crowds singing and shouting at the Euro 2020 soccer final in London on Sunday, expressing concerns that it would spur ...

By Costas Pitas and Alistair Smout British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people on Monday to show caution when nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in England next week, ...

Hungary has offered to buy Budapest Airport from its foreign shareholders, part of an effort to take it back into state hands and protect what the government says are national ...

The European Commission will delay its plan to put forward a new levy on digital services later in July, a spokesman said on Monday, following intense pressure from the US ...

Egypt’s Suez Canal revenue rose to a record $5.84 billion in its 2020-21 financial year (July-June), up from $5.72 bln in the previous year, the Suez Canal Authority said on Sunday. ...

The founding family and top investor in the Daily Mail’s owner is considering taking the British newspaper publisher private in a $1.1 billion deal if certain conditions are met, the ...

Taiwan’s Foxconn (2317.TW) and TSMC (2330.TW) said on Monday they had reached deals to buy 10 million doses of Germany’s BioNTech SE’s (22UAy.DE) COVID-19 vaccine, putting the ...

British billionaire Richard Branson on Sunday soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane and safely returned in the vehicle’s first fully ...

Thousands of members of Northern Ireland’s Orange Order began to take part in parades across the region on Monday with the peak of the annual marching closely watched this ...

Tobacco group Philip Morris International agreed on Friday to buy Vectura (VEC.L) for 1.05 billions pounds ($1.44 billion), giving the US firm access to the British drugmaker’s respiratory ailment treatments ...

Amazon.com Inc said its online stores had returned to normal services after a global outage disrupted shopping on its country sites. E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc’s online store ...

Does Elon Musk control Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) or does Tesla control Elon Musk? More than $2 billion hinges on that question as a trial kicks off on Monday. Shareholders allege ...

The European Commission is likely to delay putting forward its plans for a digital levy until the autumn to try to improve the chances of a global corporate tax reform ...

Italy won the European Championship for the first time since 1968 as Gianluigi Donnarumma saved two England penalties en route to a 3-2 shootout win after the teams had fought out ...

Novak Djokovic beat Italian Matteo Berrettini 6-7(4) 6-4 6-4 6-3 to win his sixth title at Wimbledon on Sunday. The win also earned the Serbian world number one a 20th ...