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The European Union, the U.S. and other wealthy countries raised their offer of climate funding for developing nations to $300 billion a year at COP29 on Saturday, in a bid ...

European Union governments cannot pick and choose whether to execute arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against two Israeli leaders and a Hamas commander, the EU’s foreign ...

Tens of thousands of homes, farms and businesses in Ireland suffered power outages due to Storm Bert on Saturday, while some rail lines and roads were closed in Britain due ...

Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it rapidly seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counter-assaults, ...

Climate summits are notorious for running into overtime and into the weekend and COP29 is no exception. We have a deal of sorts, but more iterations are expected during the ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would keep testing its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile in combat and had a stock ready for use, while Ukraine said it was ...

A powerful airstrike killed 11 people in central Beirut on Saturday, the Lebanese civil defence said, shaking the capital as Israel pressed its offensive against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. The attack ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has revived EU enlargement. European leaders often talk about enlargement as a ‘geopolitical necessity’. However, the rhetoric on enlargement never extends ...

By Sam Poyser When bombs tore through two crowded pubs in central Birmingham on the evening of November 21 1974, they claimed the lives of 21 people and injured 220 more. They also led ...

Turkish opposition party CHP MP and former ambassador to the United States Namik Tan on Friday said a federal solution to the Cyprus problem cannot be “thrown in the bin”. ...

London’s Gatwick Airport, the second busiest airport in Britain, reopened a terminal on Friday after a security alert earlier in the day forced its evacuation and caused travel disruption ...

A group representing major automakers including General Motors (GM.N), Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), and Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) urged President-elect Donald Trump to retain key tax credits for electric ...

Millions of British households will see energy bills tick up in January after regulator Ofgem said it would increase its domestic price cap by 1.2 per cent from January as volatile ...

British police carried out a controlled explosion near the U.S. embassy in south London after discovering a suspect package, authorities said on Friday. “We can confirm that the ‘loud ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he would invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Hungary, saying he would guarantee that an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of ramping up tension and provocations, saying the Korean peninsula has never faced a greater risk of nuclear war, ...

Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in response to the U.S. and UK’s allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced ...

Britain borrowed more than expected in October, according to official data that showed the challenge facing finance minister Rachel Reeves who says she will fix the public finances as well ...

Berkay Ucar has almost given up hope of finding work after his eight-month search only generated a few unsuccessful interviews. Living with his parents in the capital Ankara, 24-year-old software ...

The Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp’s trip to Israel has been postponed, the ministry said on Thursday, confirming an earlier report by Dutch News Agency ANP. “Under the current ...

Heavy gunfire erupted in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Thursday evening after security forces moved to arrest the former head of the intelligence service, according to Reuters reporters and ...

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads toward its demise in a huge explosion called ...

President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday he would nominate former Florida Attorney General and loyalist Pam Bondi to be U.S. Attorney General, moving swiftly to replace his former nominee ...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence chief, as well as a Hamas leader, Ibrahim Al-Masri, for alleged ...