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The United States and Russia said on Wednesday they had extended the New START arms control treaty for five years, preserving the last treaty limiting deployments of the world’s ...

By Conor Humphries and William James The European Union on Wednesday rebuffed a British demand to extend a grace period for checks on goods going from Britain to Northern Ireland, ...

A team of investigators led by the World Health Organization visited a virus research laboratory in China’s central city of Wuhan and met with a prominent virologist there in ...

Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane could be available for next Wednesday’s FA Cup clash with Everton after making a quick recovery from the ankle injury sustained last week. Manager ...

President Sergio Mattarella asked former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on Wednesday to form a government tasked with tackling the coronavirus crisis and deep economic recession that are battering ...

The German military on Wednesday sent more than 20 doctors and nurses together with ventilators and hospital beds to coronavirus-stricken Portugal, where a severe rise in cases has prompted several European ...

Women in China’s system of detention camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang were subject to rape, sexual abuse and torture, according to ...

Protesting Indian farmers won global attention on Wednesday with prominent Western activists joining pop superstar Rihanna in support of their months-long campaign against agriculture reforms but India said the intervention ...

European Union countries must step up economic reforms and tackle investment bottlenecks to get their share of billions of euros of COVID recovery funds, an official with the bloc’s ...

By Chanta Lach For some, a post-lockdown group activity that combines exercise with alcohol may seem like the ideal coronavirus stress-buster – though yoga purists should probably avoid Phnom Penh’s ...

Israel will expand COVID-19 vaccinations to include all citizens over the age of 16, officials said on Wednesday as cases and deaths surged again, setting back a predicted turnaround. Prime Minister ...

Myanmar police have filed charges against ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi for illegally importing communications equipment and she will be detained until Feb. 15 for investigations, according to a police ...

Record-setting quarterback Tom Brady is at it again, this time without even lifting a finger. Fanatics, the NFL’s official e-commerce partner, said the six-time Super Bowl champion, who is ...

A second wave of coronavirus infections threatens to upend a tourism boom in Dubai that provided salve to its battered economy, although with so few places open globally its hospitality ...

A stronger than expected rebound in the automotive and machinery industries where customers released their pent-up demand boosted Siemens’ first-quarter results, deputy CEO Roland Busch said on Wednesday. Busch, who ...

The Group of Seven largest developed economies on Wednesday condemned the military coup in Myanmar and said it was deeply concerned about the fate of detained political leaders such as ...

Strong winds threatening to fan a bushfire prompted Australia on Wednesday to urge thousands of people to leave their homes in the provincial capital of Perth, complicating a lockdown after ...

Manchester United returned to winning ways in ruthlessly emphatic fashion with a 9-0 home win over Southampton, who ended the game with nine men, to move level on points with ...

Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday said founder Jeff Bezos would step down as CEO and become executive chairman, as the company reported its third consecutive record profit and quarterly sales ...

Arsenal finished with nine men as their impressive recent Premier League resurgence was halted by a 2-1 defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers at a rain-swept Molineux on Tuesday. Joao Moutinho’s ...

A Russian court jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Tuesday in a ruling which the opposition politician blamed on what he called President Vladimir Putin’s hatred and fear of ...

Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Tuesday that most of the lockdown measures in the Netherlands, many of which have been in place since October, will remain in place for ...

Captain Tom Moore, the British World War Two veteran who raised millions of pounds for health service workers on the frontline of the battle against COVID-19, has died aged 100, his ...

Turkey’s interior minister on Tuesday condemned protesters at a top Istanbul university as “LGBT deviants” in a statement which Twitter deemed as hateful conduct. Students and teachers at Istanbul’...