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Amazon.com AMZN.O workers at seven U.S. facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush as workers protest what they say is the ...

The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Iran and Houthi-related entities, according to the Treasury Department website which listed a number of individuals, companies and vessels that had been ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the Ukraine war with his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis in a phone call on Wednesday, his ministry said on Thursday. Switzerland hosted a peace ...

A dovish message from the Bank of England on Thursday dented the outlook for sterling, one of the year’s best performing major currencies against the dollar, while bringing a ...

Ukraine launched six U.S.-made long-range ATACMs missiles and four British-made Storm Shadow missiles at Russia’s southern Rostov region on Wednesday, the Russian defence ministry said on Thursday. ...

A Paris court convicted a brother of French international footballer Paul Pogba and five others on Thursday of attempting to extort the World Cup winner, French media reported. Mathias Pogba ...

Israeli airstrikes on Syria are violations of the country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and “must stop,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday. Since a lightning rebel offensive ...

Banlue Choosin has been monitoring the seas around Thailand’s southern Phang Nga province for signs of abnormality for nearly two decades. The 59-year-old is a former fisherman, and his ...

There is no talk of a ceasefire deal between Turkey and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, contrary to a U.S. announcement, a Turkish ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on ending the war and had ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday suggested a missile ‘duel’ with the United States that would show how Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile could defeat any U.S. ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has evolved significantly since its founding in 1967. Now encompassing 10 member states, ASEAN represents a diverse cultural, political, and economic consortium that faces new challenges ...

The Bank of England looks set to hold interest rates at 4.75 per cent on Thursday, despite signs of a slowing economy, as persistent inflation pressures limit it to a “gradual” ...

A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty on Thursday of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body ...

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it will not seek an immediate recall of airbag inflators in about 50 million U.S. vehicles assembled by 13 automakers and instead will conduct ...

Ukraine struck Russian territory with at least 13 missiles and 84 drones, triggering a fire at an oil refinery in the southern Rostov region that burned for hours, Russian officials said on ...

President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday disrupted bipartisan efforts to avert a government shutdown as he pressured his fellow Republicans in Congress to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded ...

British inflation hit an eight-month high in November, but the rise in services prices – watched closely by the Bank of England as an underlying measure of inflationary pressures – held steady, ...

The U.S. reported its first severe human case of bird flu on Wednesday in a Louisiana resident who is hospitalized in critical condition after suspected contact with an infected ...

Tunisia’s coast guard has recovered the bodies of 20 migrants from Africa after the boat they were in sank off the coast, the national guard said on Wednesday, the second ...

France said on Wednesday it would host an international meeting on Syria in January and that the lifting of sanctions and reconstruction aid would be conditional on clear political and ...

Greece will back Albania in its decade-long bid to join the European Union on condition it respects the rights of its ethnic Greek minority, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on ...

The U.S Department of Defense on Wednesday announced the repatriation of two Guantanamo Bay detainees to Malaysia, where the government said it was planning a reintegration programme for the ...