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European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of ...

Foreign ministers and top diplomats from Western and Middle Eastern countries are meeting Syria’s new foreign minister in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday at the first such regional ...

By Miranda Xafa In an international environment of great turmoil and rapid change over the past year, Greece has stood out as a pole of political and economic stability in ...

British households’ expectations for inflation rose in December, according to a survey that may add to concerns among investors about the slow pace of future interest rate cuts by the ...

As Los Angeles construction worker Ivan De La Torre surveyed a landscape of smoking wreckage in fire-ravaged Altadena, a question nagged at him: how would insurance companies cover the cost ...

Gas flows from Azerbaijan to Serbia have been halted and it is unclear when they will resume, news agency Tanjug quoted Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic as saying. “I got information ...

Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, the first time Ukraine has announced the capture of North Korean soldiers ...

Fierce winds that have supercharged wildfires sweeping parts of Los Angeles finally eased on Friday night, bringing some relief to weary firefighters, but the largest blaze was reported to have ...

By Lisa Richwine and Rollo RossWhen wildfires destroyed parts of Los Angeles this week, real estate agent Jenna Cooper started asking friends for clothing and other items to help people ...

By Hyunjoo Jin and Jack Kim The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on Dec. 29 stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner ...

Two companies based in Cyprus were included on the latest list of entities sanctioned by the United States for aiding Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The list was published ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail, pay a fine or be put on probation for his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn ...

Britain’s gas storage levels are worryingly low, with less than a week’s worth of gas in storage after a cold snap, energy company Centrica CNA.L said on ...

Russia welcomes the stated willingness of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to resolve problems through dialogue, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, reaffirming Russian President Vladimir Putin’s readiness ...

The world just experienced the first full year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times, scientists said on Friday. The milestone was confirmed by the European Union’s ...

Sterling continued its slide on Friday, its fourth day of falls, as elevated global bond yields kept the currency under pressure. The pound was down 0.17 per cent against the dollar ...

Wildfires menacing Los Angeles have killed at least 10 people and devoured nearly 10,000 structures, with five fires burning into a third night on Thursday, as dry desert winds fanning the flames ...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to sanction the International Criminal Court to protest its issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former ...

Lebanon’s parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S. support and showing the weakened sway ...

Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was “violently intercepted” leaving a march, her first public appearance in months, the opposition said on social media on Thursday. The opposition are protesting ...

President Joe Biden is expected to unveil new sanctions targeting Russia’s economy this week, according to a U.S. official, as part of measures to bolster Kyiv’s war ...

Hundreds of mourners including all five living current and former U.S. presidents packed into Washington’s National Cathedral on Thursday to mourn, Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president ...

Rachel Reeves is facing her first major test as Britain’s finance minister after the government’s borrowing costs jumped sharply this week and the pound tumbled, potentially forcing her ...

More than 12,300 civilians have been killed in the Ukraine war since Russia invaded nearly three years ago, a U.N. official told a U.N. meeting on Wednesday, noting a ...