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Average asking prices for newly listed houses and apartments in Britain fell by 1.7 per cent in December, but activity was robust for the time of year as movers aimed to ...

Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the influence of social ...

The leader of Abkhazia, a breakaway Georgian region backed by Russia, warned on Saturday that the republic was facing a “humanitarian catastrophe” due to a critical shortage of electricity. Badra ...

Syria’s new rulers have appointed a foreign minister, the official Syrian news agency (SANA) said on Saturday, as they seek to build international relations two weeks after Bashar al-Assad ...

Pope Francis on Saturday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the ...

By Charles Ellinas Developments in Syria have been precipitous and momentous. Ahmad al-Sharaa, the leader of the Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that deposed al-Assad last Sunday, has ...

The U.S. Congress passed spending legislation early on Saturday in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a destabilizing government shutdown ahead of the busy holiday travel ...

The Israeli military said it failed to intercept a missile from Yemen early on Saturday that fell in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa area, and the ambulance service said 14 people received mild ...

German authorities are investigating a Saudi man with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg ...

British manufacturers have reported the sharpest loss of confidence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of higher costs including tax increases by the new government, according ...

An Italian court on Friday acquitted Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over allegations of kidnapping in a case involving a migrant rescue boat that he prevented from docking in Italy 2019. ...

The European Union’s “reflexes” on geopolitical issues in the eastern Mediterranean are “not what we would expect”, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday night. He was speaking to ...

A Russian general assassinated by Ukraine was buried with full military honours on Friday as Moscow launched an apparent revenge attack on what it said was a Ukrainian intelligence service ...

Spain’s minority government and the two largest trade unions agreed on Friday to implement a shorter work week with the same pay, although the change still needs to be ...

King Charles’ cancer treatment is progressing well and will continue into next year, a Buckingham Palace source said, as the British royals prepare for their annual Christmas get-together after a “...

With a month left in the White House, U.S. President Joe Biden has a long list of foreign and domestic policy actions he hopes to get done before president-elect ...

Turkey will do whatever necessary for the reconstruction of Syria following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, including improving ties in trade, energy and defence, President Tayyip Erdogan said. “We will ...

British retail sales rose by a weaker-than-expected 0.2 per cent in November, according to official data which suggested consumers had overcome their worries about the new government’s first budget but ...

The Biden administration will announce in the coming days its final Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative package, using up the remaining funds set aside to buy new weapons for Ukraine, according ...

Greece has recovered the bodies of eight migrants who fell into the sea after their speedboat collided with a coastguard boat that was pursuing it off the island of Rhodes ...

Hungary has granted political asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is under investigation in Poland over accusations of misuse of public funds, drawing an angry reaction ...

Top diplomats from the Biden administration are in Damascus today Friday to meet new Syrian authorities led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a State Department spokesperson said, the first in-person ...

A spending bill backed by Donald Trump failed in the U.S. House of Representatives as dozens of Republicans defied the president-elect, leaving Congress with no clear plan to avert ...

The world’s economic reckoning with the incoming Trump administration kicked off in earnest this week, with the US Federal Reserve flagging fewer rate cuts, a resignation in Canada over ...