Ukrainian heavy artillery inflicts ‘hell’ on Russian lines near Bakhmut
The use of heavy weapons supplied by the West in the fierce battle raging on the outskirts of Bakhmut, which was captured by Russia in May, is inflicting a significant ...
Pope Francis moved as Reuters photographer shows him child migrant picture
Pope Francis was moved as he was shown a picture of a migrant child by Reuters photographer Yara Nardi during his flight to a Church conference on Mediterranean issues in ...
Lebanese army says it exchanged tear gas, smoke bomb fire with Israel
Lebanon’s army said it fired tear gas at Israeli forces over the border on Saturday in response to smoke bombs fired at its troops, though Israel said Lebanon started ...
NASA’s first asteroid sample on track for Sunday parachute landing in Utah
A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge ...
Landslide causes large chunk of Swedish motorway to collapse
A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday.
The landslide damaged the ...
Russia says Karabakh Armenian fighters start giving up arms
Russia said that Armenian fighters in the breakaway region of Nagorno Karabakh had started to give up arms as some humanitarian aid reached the 120,000 Armenians there who say the world ...
Sunak may ban cigarettes in UK for future generations -The Guardian
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is considering introducing measures that would ban the next generation from ever being able to buy cigarettes, The Guardian reported on Friday, citing government sources.
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US Senator Menendez hit with bribery charges over Egypt ties (Updated)
U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged powerful Senator Robert Menendez and his wife with bribery over their relationship with New Jersey businessmen, which could complicate Democrats’ efforts to keep their ...
Erdogan says he doesn’t agree with others’ negative approach toward Putin
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he does not agree with the negative approach other leaders are showing towards his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Turkish broadcasters quoted him as saying on ...
UK recession risk deepens as companies falter
British companies endured a much tougher September than feared, marked by growing unemployment and recession risks, according to a survey on Friday that underlined why the Bank of England halted ...
Bank of England halts run of interest rate hikes as economy slows
The Bank of England halted its long run of interest rate increases on Thursday as the British economy slowed, but said it was not taking a recent fall in inflation ...
UN chief laments ‘naked greed’ of fossil fuel interests
Countries addressing a climate summit during the U.N. General Assembly criticised big polluters for not doing more to tackle global warming, and the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said ...
Poland says it isn’t sending new arms to Ukraine
Poland is only carrying out previously agreed arms deliveries to Ukraine, a government spokesman said on Thursday, amid souring bilateral relations due to a grain dispute just weeks before a ...
Thousands of Greeks rally as state workers strike over labour law plans
Thousands of Greek public sector workers, including teachers, doctors and transport staff, marched in Athens on Thursday during a strike against planned labour law changes by the conservative government, which ...
Sunak waters down Britain’s climate goals
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak watered down Britain’s commitments to tackle climate change on Wednesday, delaying targets for changing cars and domestic heating to maintain the consent of the British ...
Facing ‘torrent of theft’, UK retailers press for police action
A coalition of British retail industry groups and shopworkers union USDAW has written to police leaders in England and Wales calling on them to back a plan to counter a “...
Azerbaijan halts Karabakh offensive after ceasefire deal with Armenian separatists
Azerbaijan said on Wednesday it had halted military action in its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh after Armenian separatist forces there agreed to a ceasefire whose terms signalled the area would ...
Azerbaijani forces strike Armenian-controlled Karabakh, raising risk of new Caucasus war (Updated)
Azerbaijan sent troops backed by artillery strikes into Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday in an attempt to bring the breakaway region to heel by force, raising the threat of a new ...
UN chief assails Russia’s war in Ukraine for ‘unleashing nexus of horror’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday assailed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a violation of the U.N. Charter, telling the annual UNGA gathering of world leaders that ...
ECB done hiking rates but cut not expected until at least July
The European Central Bank is done hiking interest rates and will stay on hold until at least July next year, according to economists in a Reuters poll, who said there ...
US and Iran trade detainees after Qatar deal unfreezes $6 billion
Five U.S. detainees flew out of Iran on Monday in a swap for five Iranians held in the U.S. in a rare deal between the arch enemies that ...
Letter shows Pope Pius XII probably knew about Holocaust early on
Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts ...
Russia calls on World Court to throw out Ukraine genocide challenge
Russia called on the U.N.’s highest court in The Hague on Monday to throw out what it said was a “hopelessly flawed” case challenging Moscow’s argument that ...
Newborn found dead on migrant boat off Italy’s Lampedusa as islanders protest
The Italian Coast Guard found a newborn baby dead on a boat carrying migrants to Lampedusa, ANSA news agency reported on Saturday, as dozens of the island’s citizens protested ...