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Britain plans to double the time most foreign workers must wait for settled status to 10 years, with exceptions for doctors and nurses, the government said on Thursday, adding that some ...

A huge investigation into insider betting in Turkey’s football leagues is likely to widen and include coaches, commentators and club chairmen, a prosecutor was cited as saying on Thursday. ...

Israel’s expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on ...

Russia’s parliament said on Thursday that any seizure of Russian assets by the European Union must be met by legal action against Belgium and securities house Euroclear, and Moscow ...

The global luxury goods industry is likely to sell 3% to 5% more next year after stagnating in 2025, but years of aggressive price increases have alienated customers, threatening long-term growth, Bain & ...

European countries pushed back on Thursday against a U.S.-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions ...

British consumers’ optimism about the economy and their own finances recorded its sharpest fall this month since April, when many household bills increased and US President Donald Trump announced wide-ranging ...

Israeli airstrikes killed four people and wounded 18 others in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, as Hamas and Israel accused each other of ...

The U.S. has signalled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that proposes Kyiv giving up territory ...

A power blackout briefly hit parts of Paris on Thursday morning, which French grid operator RTE linked to a technical incident at its Issy-Les-Moulineaux electrical substation, southwest of the French ...

President Donald Trump signed legislation on Wednesday ordering the Justice Department to release documents from its long-running investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — files eagerly sought by both his political ...

At least 25 Palestinians were killed in four Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday in a part of Gaza under Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, health authorities said. ...

Britain said it shares U.S. President Donald Trump’s goal of ending the war in Ukraine and urged Russia to withdraw its forces, after Reuters reported that Washington has ...

The United States, Australia and Britain announced coordinated sanctions on Wednesday against Russia-based web company Media Land, accusing it of supporting ransomware operations. U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign ...

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey renewed their bid to get federal criminal charges against him tossed out on Wednesday, arguing in court that President Donald Trump’s personal ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks with Turkey’s president on Wednesday and was due to meet U.S. Army officials in Kyiv on Thursday, as word emerged that Washington ...

British inflation slowed last month for the first time since May, official figures showed on Wednesday, offering some relief to the government before next week’s annual budget and boosting ...

British Defence Secretary John Healey said on Wednesday that “military options” are ready should the Russian spy ship Yantar become a threat, after the vessel directed lasers at British pilots ...

issing did not begin with star-crossed human lovers but with the primate ancestors of great apes around 20 million years ago, according to a study published on Wednesday. Researchers from Oxford ...

Portugal’s superstar Cristiano Ronaldo on Tuesday attended a White House meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump hosted the ...

Explosions rocked the western Ukrainian cities of Lviv and Ternopil on Wednesday, Ukrainian media and a Reuters witness reported, after Ukraine’s military reported Russian missile and drone attacks. “Russia ...

The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress voted almost unanimously to force the release of Justice Department files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, an outcome President Donald Trump had ...

U.S. President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, offering a fierce defense of the ...

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms META.O defeated a U.S. attempt to unwind its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp on Tuesday when a federal judge ruled the company does ...