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By Kanishka Singh and Ali Sawafta The United States said on Friday it would not allow Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to travel to New York next month for a ...

EU-funded researchers are developing strategies to protect people from rising temperatures, focusing on vulnerable groups and clearer climate-health communication. By Vittoria D’Alessio The environmental impact of climate change – shifting ...

By William Gourlay A Turkish proverb – düştüğün yerden kalk – counsels that one should arise from where one has fallen. Ekrem İmamoğlu, the jailed mayor of Istanbul and ...

Human rights lawyers said on Friday they have filed a criminal complaint in Argentina’s federal courts seeking the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot ...

The US said on Friday it would bar entry to some Palestinian officials seeking to attend next month’s UN General Assembly in New York, after several US allies pledged ...

A court hearing on President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook ended on Friday with no immediate ruling from the judge hearing the unprecedented legal ...

Russia said on Friday that French President Emmanuel Macron had spoken in a manner unbecoming of a head of state when he called Russian President Vladimir Putin “an ogre at ...

Russia said on Friday that Western proposals on security guarantees for Ukraine would increase the risk of conflict between Moscow and the West by turning Kyiv into a “strategic provocateur” ...

The British government on Friday overturned a court ruling requiring asylum seekers to be temporarily evicted from a hotel where one resident was charged with sexual assault, a decision that ...

More food aid is reaching Gaza but it still remains far from enough to prevent widespread starvation, the head of the World Food Programme told Reuters. “We’re getting a ...

Tensions between the United States and Venezuela are rising amid a large U.S. naval buildup in the Southern Caribbean and nearby waters, which U.S. officials say aims to ...

Brazilian police and tax officials carried out a series of raids early on Thursday across the country targeting multibillion-dollar money laundering and fraud schemes linked to organised crime in the ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he had discussed security guarantees for Ukraine with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan and the entire guaranties would be set out on ...

Britain, France and Germany launched a 30-day process to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme on Thursday, a step likely to stoke tensions two months after ...

Hundreds of U.N. staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk have asked him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Thursday said she “unequivocally” condemns a missile attack launched by Russia on the European Union’s mission in Kyiv earlier in the day. “Today, Kyiv ...

Russia pounded Ukraine with missiles and drones early on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including four children in the capital in a sweeping attack President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said was Moscow’...

President Donald Trump presided over a policy meeting on Israel’s war in Gaza and post-war plans for the Palestinian territory on Wednesday with input from former British Prime Minister ...

Israel launched on Wednesday a series of strikes on former army barracks in Kiswa, in the southwestern Damascus countryside, two Syrian army sources and state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported, making ...

All United Nations Security Council members, except the United States, on Wednesday said the famine in Gaza was a “manmade crisis” and warned that the use of starvation as a ...

A black-clad gunman killed two children and wounded 17 other people on Wednesday, when he opened fire on students attending Mass at a Minneapolis Catholic school, authorities said, a shocking outburst ...

Ukraine criticised Russia on Wednesday for setting out plans to withdraw from the Council of Europe’s treaty for the prevention of torture, saying the proposal was a tacit admission ...

The personal details of almost 200 survivors of abuse in the Church of England had been leaked in a data breach from a scheme that was set up to offer them ...

Most French people want new national elections, opinion polls showed on Wednesday, after opposition parties said they would bring down the minority government in a confidence vote next month, throwing ...