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Turkey announced on Sunday a $14 billion (€13.4bn) regional development plan that aims to reduce the economic gap between its mainly Kurdish southeast region and the rest of the country. The ...

Croats are voting to elect a new president on Sunday in a race that incumbent President Zoran Milanovic is leading in the polls. Around 3.8 million Croats are eligible to cast ...

Holding elections in Syria could take up to four years, Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with Al Arabiya on Sunday, the first time he ...

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, was sworn in as president of Georgia on Sunday amid a political crisis after the government froze European Union application talks in ...

It’s been a brutal year to be in the battery metals business. Prices of lithium, nickel and cobalt collapsed in 2023 and have continued grinding steadily lower over the course ...

The deadliest air accident ever in South Korea killed 179 people on Sunday, when an airliner belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway, erupting in a fireball as it ...

British business confidence fell to its lowest level of 2024 in December but employers were a bit more optimistic about the wider economy, while separate data showed a pre-Christmas rise in ...

Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Saturday it would suspend gas exports to Moldova from 5am GMT on January 1 due to unpaid debt by Moldova.It said the company reserved ...

Lebanon expelled around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese security official and a war ...

Israeli forces detained dozens of medical staff from a north Gaza hospital they raided on Friday, the enclave’s Health Ministry said.The Israeli military raided the Kamal Adwan Hospital ...

Thousands of people protested in Turkey’s capital Ankara on Saturday to demand a bigger hike in the minimum wage, chanting slogans calling on the government to resign and waving ...

Finnish authorities said on Saturday they are moving an impounded tanker closer to port after boarding the vessel carrying Russian oil earlier this week on suspicion it had damaged an ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s younger brother Nick has died after struggling with cancer, a Downing Street spokesman said on Friday.“Nick, 60, died peacefully on the afternoon of December 26...

Austria plans to buy 12 Italian-made M-346 FA fighter jets to replace Saab 105 planes which it decommissioned at the end of 2020, the government said on Saturday.Citing military sources, newspaper Krone ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has asked the country’s regulators, including the financial and competition watchdogs, to remove barriers to growth in an effort to revive a sluggish economy, ...

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan’s leader for what the Kremlin called a “tragic incident” over Russia in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed after Russian air ...

Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s defence ministry said on Saturday, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardment inside Afghanistan.The statement from the ...

The head of the World Health Organisation said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen’s main airport carried out by ...

Japan’s government is set to compile a record $735 billion budget for the fiscal year from April due to larger social security and debt-servicing costs, adding to the industrial world’...

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim arrived at Old Trafford a little over a month ago with a glowing reputation and backed by many to be the man to turn around ...

Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka is set to be sidelined for more than two months after an operation on a hamstring injury, manager Mikel Arteta said on Friday.“He had a ...

Cristiano Ronaldo on Friday weighed in on the decision to hand the men’s Ballon d’Or award to Manchester City’s Rodri, saying Brazil and Real Madrid forward Vinicius ...

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a plot by Ukraine to kill a high-ranking Russian officer and a pro-Russian war blogger with a bomb ...

Britain began a consultation this week to review rules that force automakers to produce more electric vehicles, following industry warnings that the current plan could lead to factory closures and ...