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Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday, ending an often turbulent reign in which he sought to overhaul an ancient and divided ...

Russia launched missiles and drones targeting Ukraine early on Monday, waking up Kyiv and the eastern half of the country, hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President ...

Property values in London’s Canary Wharf financial district were roughly stable at about 6.8 billion pounds ($9 billion) last year, after declining by 15 per cent in 2023 after the pandemic drove down ...

By George M. Georgiou “By spending more on defence, we will deliver the stability that underpins economic growth, and will unlock prosperity through new jobs, skills and opportunity across the ...

A ship carrying wheat has arrived in Syria’s Latakia port, the first delivery of its kind since former President Bashar al-Assad was ousted by rebels in December, the government ...

Britain said on Sunday two of its fighter jets had intercepted Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea close to Nato alliance airspace in separate incidents on Tuesday and Thursday. The ...

Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla briefly greeted onlookers after an Easter service at St George’s Chapel in Windsor, an important fixture in the calendar of the monarch, ...

Pope Francis held a private meeting at the Vatican on Sunday morning with US Vice President JD Vance, the Vatican said in a statement. Vance, a Catholic who has clashed ...

Ozgur Ozel, the leader of Turkey’s largest opposition political party the CHP, on Saturday decried the “bankruptcy” of the country’s foreign policy in the wake of the signing ...

Pope Francis reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in an Easter Sunday message read aloud by an aide as the pontiff, still recovering from pneumonia, looked on ...

Turkey’s presidential communications directorate on Saturday night slammed “fictitious” and “unfounded” allegations levelled against the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, and others regarding reported ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that the Russian army is making a pretence of an Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, continuing overnight attempts to inflict front-line losses ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, ordering his forces to end hostilities at 6 p.m. Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday until the end of Sunday. ...

By Parisa Hafezi Iran and the United States agreed on Saturday to hold another round of talks next week over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, Iranian state TV reported, as they ...

Hamas’ armed wing said on Saturday the fate of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander was unknown after the group found the guard who was holding the hostage killed. On Tuesday, Hamas ...

By Nate Raymond A federal judge held on Friday that the Trump administration’s policy of refusing to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities ...

By Eduardo Baptista and Alessandro Diviggiano Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans ...

By Erin Banco Israel has not ruled out an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming months despite President Donald Trump telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that ...

By Andrew Chung, Luc Cohen, Kristina Cooke and Jack Queen The US Supreme Court early on Saturday paused the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan men in immigration custody after their ...

A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv killed one man inside his home and wounded at least 112 others, including nine children, on Friday, officials said. “This ...

A US judge on Friday denied Sean “Diddy” Combs’ bid to delay his upcoming sex-trafficking trial by two months. US District Judge Arun Subramanian said the hip-hop mogul made his ...

Russia and Ukraine will conduct a new prisoner swap on Saturday mediated by the United Arab Emirates, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters. Nearly 500 Russian and Ukrainian prisoners ...

US strikes on Yemen’s Ras Isa fuel port have killed at least 74 people in the deadliest attack since the US launched its large-scale campaign against the Houthis last month, ...

Russia’s defence ministry on Friday accused Ukraine of attacking Russian energy facilities four times during the past 24 hours despite a US-brokered moratorium on striking each other’s energy infrastructure. ...