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Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday he would increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP every year by 2027, rising to 3% after 2029, a clear signal to U.S. President Donald Trump ...

The Church of England will seek to bring disciplinary proceedings against 10 clerics including former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, it said on Tuesday, implementing recommendations from an abuse report last ...

A British MP was sentenced to 10 weeks in prison on Monday for punching one of his constituents after a night out, raising the prospect he could be ousted from parliament ...

Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia and the onset of slight kidney failure, but he remains alert, the Vatican said on Monday. The 88-year-old pontiff ...

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called for a constructive dialogue but braced for criticism from some European countries as he arrived for talks on Monday in Brussels. The Israeli minister ...

Ukraine hosted European leaders on Monday to mark three years of all-out war with Russia, while top U.S. officials stayed away in a clear illustration of President Donald Trump’...

Several thousand supporters of Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist Revival party scuffled with police on Saturday while trying to storm the building of a European Union mission during a protest against the ...

Among the six hostages freed by Hamas on Saturday in return for Palestinian prisoners were an Israeli Bedouin and an Ethiopian-born man who had been in Gaza for years before ...

The three biggest centrist parties in Austria’s parliament on signalled on Saturday they were on the verge of agreeing a coalition government, almost five months after an election won ...

Hamas freed six hostages from Gaza on Saturday, the last living Israeli captives slated for release under the first phase of a fragile ceasefire accord, in exchange for hundreds of ...

Hamas said on Friday it was investigating a possible error in identifying human remains handed to Israel under a ceasefire deal as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened retaliation for failing ...

Carved onto slabs of black marble, the names of 11 young men from the Russian town of Semibratovo who died fighting in Ukraine are a stark reminder of a war that ...

British retail sales rose in January for the first time since August and by much more than expected, according to official data that suggested consumers were happy to spend despite ...

The United Nations rights chief said on Thursday the parading of the bodies of hostages in Gaza is abhorrent and flies in the face of international law. Hamas handed over ...

Europe should wake up and build its own defence policy following a dramatic shift by the United States over Ukraine and geopolitical developments in recent months, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos ...

Eurosceptic politician Nigel Farage has given up formal control of his right-wing Reform UK party, which is currently leading in opinion polls, as he seeks to democratise its structure in ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Washington next week, amid other meetings aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, U....

U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a “dictator” on Wednesday and warned he had to move quickly to secure peace or risk losing his country, ...

More than $50 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza after the 15-month Israel-Hamas conflict in the Palestinian enclave, according to an assessment released by the United Nations, the European Union ...

Britain will investigate the long-term effects of vaping on children as young as eight in a decade-long study of their health and behaviour, the government said on Wednesday. The government ...

By Emilie Madi KFAR KILA, Lebanon Feb 18 (Reuters) – Residents of south Lebanon returned to devastated villages on Tuesday, searching for the bodies of relatives killed in last year’s war ...

A higher proportion of foreigners in Germany does not lead to a higher crime rate, a research institute said on Tuesday, five days ahead of an election in which violent ...

The United States and Russia said on Tuesday they had agreed to press ahead with efforts to end the war in Ukraine after holding talks in the Saudi capital at ...

Britain said it was ready to send peacekeeping troops to back up any peace deal for Ukraine as European leaders gathered on Monday to agree a unified strategy, while Russian ...