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A Palestinian shop owner said Israeli troops used him as a human shield to protect themselves during a raid on the town of Dura in the occupied West Bank. Mobile ...

Japanese shipping operator Nippon Yusen suspended sailings through the Red Sea on Tuesday after Yemen’s Houthi movement vowed to step up attacks on vessels in the region. The Iran-allied ...

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, in an interview made public, said there had been times when he had felt the urge to “punch in the face” his Russian opposite number ...

Israeli tanks stormed back into parts of the northern Gaza Strip they had left last week, residents said on Tuesday, reigniting some of the most intense fighting since the New ...

Turkey said it had destroyed 23 targets in overnight air strikes on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria, a further escalation of conflict south of its border. The attacks were ...

British High Commissioner in Cyprus Irfan Siddiq on Tuesday encouraged British nationals living on the island to register to vote in their country’s elections. Following a decision announced in ...

The far-right opposition party Alternative for Germany said on Wednesday it had no plans to pursue deportation of “unassimilated” immigrants with passports if it wins power, after investigative portal Correctiv ...

Two men were jailed in a London court on Monday for helping the owner of an extreme body modification video website to have his penis and a leg removed. Marius ...

Fresh off a campaign victory in Iowa, Donald Trump sat in a New York courtroom on Tuesday to defend himself for a second time against charges that he defamed writer ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they attacked the “spy headquarters” of Israel in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, state media reported late on Monday, while the elite force said they ...

The mayor of the southern Russian city of Voronezh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after what officials said was a Ukraine-launched drone attack that damaged several buildings and ...

British citizens living outside their country, among whom over 40,000 are believed to live in Cyprus, are to be handed the vote in their country’s elections, following an announcement by ...

Yemen’s Houthi movement will expand its targets in the Red Sea region to include US ships, an official from the Iran-allied group said on Monday, as it vowed to ...

Hamas appeared to show the dead bodies of two Israeli hostages on Monday after warning Israel they might be killed if it did not stop its bombardment of Gaza. A ...

A former mayor of the Russian city of Vladivostok has enlisted to fight in Ukraine and departed for the front after he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption, ...

The Kremlin on Monday said that talks in Davos on Ukraine’s peace proposals would achieve nothing as Russia was not participating in the discussions. President Vladimir Putin sent thousands ...

Israeli footballer Sagiv Jehezkel left Turkey on Monday, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media platform X, after he was questioned by police over a message he displayed ...

Israeli forces bombarded targets in the south, north and centre of the Gaza Strip on Monday ahead of an expected announcement by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on the fate ...

A volcano that erupted in southwest Iceland for the second time in less than a month, setting fire to several houses in a fishing town, appeared to be less active ...

A full-scale launch of Ruwiki, a Russian version of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopaedia, will take place on Monday, according to Russian media reports. Beta testing – a limited audience testing ...

Sterling was little changed on Friday, not far off its highest level in five months, after data showed British growth beat expectations in November but remained subdued over the last ...

Finance Minister Makis Keravnos is in Brussels where he will participate on Monday and Tuesday in the meetings of the Eurogroup and the EU council of finance ministers (Ecofin). At ...

North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui is in Russia this week for talks with her counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, as the two countries deepen economic, political, and military ties. Choe ...

China called for a large-scale and authoritative peace conference on the war in Gaza, while the militant group Hamas aired video of three Israeli hostages and said their fate would ...