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Turkey’s jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to lay down arms on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara ...

More than 1,000 Syrians died in detention at a military airport on the outskirts of Damascus, killed by execution, torture or maltreatment at a site that was widely feared, according to ...

President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will meet at the White House on Thursday for their first in-person visit since the Republican leader upended U.S. policy ...

Militant group Hamas said on Thursday it was ready to begin talks on the second phase of a ceasefire in Gaza after several hundred Palestinians were released from Israeli jails ...

Greece’s worst rail disaster in 2023 was caused by chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, investigators said on Thursday. On February 28, 2023, a passenger ...

Serhat Akpinar, the founding rector of Kyrenia’s Girne American University and current Turkish Cypriot ‘MP’ for ruling coalition party the DP, on Thursday defended the legality of the studies ...

Gene Hackman, the intense character actor who won two Oscars in a more than 60-year career, has died alongside his wife, pianist Betsy Arakawa, and their dog at home, the ...

Transgender service members will be separated from the US military unless they receive an exemption, according to a Pentagon memo filed in court on Wednesday, essentially banning them from joining ...

Washington’s push to swiftly end the conflict in Ukraine has sparked speculation that Western brands may want to return to Russia, but from fashion to cars, the markets they ...

US President Donald Trump raised hopes for another month-long pause on steep new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, saying they could take effect on April 2, and floated a 25% “...

Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages while it waited for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return, in an overnight exchange marking the ...

Up to 160,000 part-time retail jobs in Britain are at risk of being lost over the next three years as a result of higher employer taxes and regulatory changes, the British ...

Lebanon’s new government won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, following a speech by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam promising to push for economic and financial reforms and to ...

Pope Francis has shown a “further, slight improvement” in his medical condition, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in a sign of progress as the 88-year-old pontiff battles double pneumonia. The ...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a reversal of concessions given to Venezuela on an oil transaction agreement by his predecessor Joe Biden. Trump, in a post on Truth ...

US President Donald Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would be coming to Washington on Friday to sign an agreement on rare earth minerals and Zelenskiy said its success would ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday directed federal agencies to prepare for more large-scale layoffs that would further thin the ranks of the U.S. civil service. ...

Police are on high alert ahead of Germany’s traditional carnival celebrations this week after social media connected to the Islamic State militant group called for attacks targeting revellers in ...

Omer Faruk Karaguzel, the lawyer of Turkey’s ambassador in the north Yasin Ekrem Serim, on Wednesday threatened to “use our legal rights against baseless news and slander” after Turkish ...

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party will hold a press conference on Thursday to discuss talks with jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan and share an expected statement from ...

Israelis mourned the family that symbolised the trauma their country suffered in the Hamas-led attack of October 7, 2023, as the Palestinian militant group agreed to free the last hostage bodies included ...

The prospect of developing joint travel packages for markets such as China and the USA was a key topic of discussion when Deputy Tourism Minister Kostas Koumis met with Greece’...

Dozens of dignitaries walked out of Russia’s speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday in support of Ukraine. The delegates, including the ambassadors of ...

Britain’s Heathrow Airport forecast slower passenger growth in 2025, highlighting the need for a new runway weeks after the government threw its weight behind expansion at the hub as it ...