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The US ambassador to Doha has urged Qatar’s police and authorities to be patient, tolerant and transparent in managing more than a million soccer fans expected to visit during ...

The Russian rouble edged lower in a relatively narrow range in early trade on Wednesday after weeks of volatility, with domestic investors focused on two OFZ treasury bond auctions the ...

The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine made a rare acknowledgment of the pressures they were under from Ukrainian offensives to retake southern and eastern areas that Moscow claims ...

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he was back in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin and had recently exchanged “sweet letters” with him, according to an audio released ...

Russia has destroyed almost a third of Ukraine’s power stations in the past week, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as Moscow rained more missiles down on infrastructure in ...

Germany’s interior ministry fired the country’s cybersecurity chief on Tuesday and launched an investigation into his conduct after media allegations that he may have come into contact with ...

The new commander of Russian forces in Ukraine acknowledged on Tuesday that his troops were under broad pressure and faced hard choices, as the Russian-appointed governor of occupied Kherson province ...

Hamas leaders will visit Syria on Wednesday, in a move by the Palestinian Islamist group to rebuild ties after shunning President Bashar al-Assad for years over his violent crackdown on ...

The European Commission proposed a new raft of measures on Tuesday, aimed at pulling down high gas and power prices that are stoking inflation, hampering industrial activity and hiking citizens’ ...

Lebanon’s parliament passed another round of amendments to a banking secrecy law after the International Monetary Fund said a previous draft retained key deficiencies. The IMF has laid out ...

A United Nations commission found Russian forces were responsible for the “vast majority” of human rights violations in the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, including attacks on civilians ...

Britain summoned China’s Charge d’Affaires on Tuesday to explain an incident in which a Hong Kong pro-democracy protester was seen being pulled into the grounds of the Chinese ...

Damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Europe was caused by powerful explosions, Danish police said on Tuesday, echoing earlier findings into leaks that erupted in the ...

In recent years, there has been a growing appreciation of fine traditional Chinese culture among the people, especially the younger generations. From the increasing emphasis placed on the study of ...

Turkey’s main opposition party will apply to the Constitutional Court to request annulment of a media law that would jail people for spreading “disinformation” and which it has described ...

Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary on Tuesday described the economic situation in Britain as a “car crash” caused by the country’s vote to leave the European Union in 2016. “The ...

Russia said on Tuesday that four Ukrainian regions whose annexation it proclaimed last month are under the protection of its nuclear arsenal. The statement from the Kremlin came at a ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that the international investigation into blasts that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea was set up with the advance intention of ...

Sensing that Russia has been weakened by its war in Ukraine, some of its closest allies in Central Asia are displaying a newly assertive streak. The region’s five former ...

The Turkish Central Bank said on Tuesday it raised the securities maintenance ratio required for foreign exchange deposits to 5 per cent from 3 per cent and that further steps as part ...

French trade unions began a nationwide strike on Tuesday, asking for higher salaries amid decades-high inflation and posing President Emmanuel Macron one of his stiffest challenges since his reelection in ...

Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss apologised for “mistakes” in her programme that caused investor confidence to evaporate and her poll ratings to plunge before nearly all of it was ...

Russia attacked Ukraine with drones late on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after a day of strikes on cities in which at least four people were killed and a ...

Britain’s government bonds, currency and shares rallied on Monday as new finance minister Jeremy Hunt reversed swathes of Prime Minister Liz Truss’s economic growth plan, the latest twist ...