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Jurors in the first two trials in the U.S. from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over harm to children have found Meta and Alphabet’s ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday he had authorised the military to board and detain Russian ships in British waters to disrupt a network of vessels that his government ...

President Donald Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in May during his first visit to China in eight years, a closely watched trip postponed due to the Iran war. ...

Southeast Asian economies are scrambling to contain the fallout from the escalating Iran war, as surging fuel costs and supply disruptions ripple through power markets and key industries. The Philippines ...

President ​Donald Trump said Iran was desperate to make a deal to end nearly four weeks of fighting, contradicting the Iranian foreign minister who said his country was reviewing a ...

British retail sales have tumbled this month by the most since April 2020 when most ​non-food shops were closed at the start of ‌the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey showed this week. ...

Hungary will gradually stop sending natural gas to Ukraine until crude oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline resume, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday, escalating a standoff with Kyiv ...

Britain will cap how much donors living overseas can give to political parties and ban cryptocurrency donations following an independent review into the influence of foreign finance, a move that ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Pyongyang on Wednesday with a white-horse cavalry and 21-gun salute, cementing ties between two close allies of Russia’...

Iran is still reviewing a U.S. proposal to end the war in the Gulf, despite an initial response that was negative, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, ...

Gulf Arab states told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday they face an existential threat from Iranian attacks on their infrastructure, which the U.N. rights chief said ...

Turkey’s dependence on Middle East oil is at a “manageable” 10% of total supplies and there are no supply problems despite the war involving Iran, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said ...

Sarah Mullally will be enthroned as the Church of England’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide in a ceremony mixing tradition with global ...

Russian attacks damaged two energy facilitiesin Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region, leaving close to 212,000 consumers without power, a regional electricity distribution company said on Wednesday. Chernihivoblenergo said nearly 150,000 consumers in ...

British business activity ​has grown at the slowest pace in six months and manufacturers’ input costs accelerated at the fastest rate since 1992, according to a ‌survey that underscores the risks ...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats were headed for their worst election outcome in over a century on Tuesday, as migration and welfare concerns obscured broad support for ...

Israel and Iran exchanged airstrikes on Wednesday, as Iran again rejected President Donald Trump’s claim the United States was in negotiations to end to the war which has roiled ...

Construction of new office space in ​Europe has slumped to its lowest in a decade, even as rents in prime locations hit ‌record highs, research shows, deepening a supply crunch ...

A proposal to exclude Turkey from participating in defence-related aspects of the European Union’s Horizon Europe 2028–2034 programme was approved on Tuesday by the European Parliament’s committee on defence ...

The United States is preparing to deploy thousands of troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East. According to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, a brigade of ...

Israeli and Lebanese sources reported on Tuesday that an Iranian missile intercepted over northern Lebanon may have been aimed at the British bases in Cyprus, according to US military assessments. ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said that Greece’s economic growth remains robust, supported by strong domestic demand and ongoing reforms under Next Generation EU, although risks from ...

When Sarah Mullally is enthroned as the Church of England’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, she will inherit a task that has eluded her predecessors: uniting a ...

Europe is dangerously unprepared to tackle a growing wildfire crisis, and must overhaul its fleets of firefighting aircraft and step up investment, according to a report. The paper – commissioned by ...