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Edinburgh Fringe listing for Amanda Knox show draws renewed scrutiny over Kercher case
Amanda Knox is set to perform a one-woman comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that draws on her experience of being accus...
Sicily issues red heat alerts for Palermo and Catania as wildfire risk rises
Sicily remained under intense heat and heightened wildfire risk on Tuesday as regional authorities issued a new civil protection a...
Malta joins 22 EU leaders opposing Spain’s Sánchez over migration policy
Twenty-two EU leaders — including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — on Saturday took ai...
Liechtenstein says hackers access information on 31,000 legal entities
Hackers have illegally accessed and copied data from Liechtenstein's register of beneficial owners, compromising information rela...
Unidentified object crashes in Poland as Russia strikes Ukraine
An unidentified airborne object crashed in eastern Poland early Thursday during Russia's latest attack on Ukraine, leaving behind ...
Finland closes southern airspace near Russia over drone risk
Finland’s Defence Forces on Tuesday restricted part of the airspace off the country’s southern coast near the Russian border due t...
Iceland opposition leader urges EU to stay out of referendum on membership talks
Iceland’s opposition leader has called on European politicians to avoid influencing the country’s upcoming referendum on whether t...
Migrant smuggling network using rental cars dismantled across the Balkans
Authorities in Bulgaria, Greece, the Netherlands, and Romania have taken coordinated action against an organised crime group suspe...
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US State Department to close consulates in Canada, Japan and Indonesia
The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions in a rare downsizing of America's g...
US begins review of its military presence in Europe
The United States has launched a review of its military presence in Europe, a move aimed at shifting greater responsibility for co...
Argentine leader calls Brazilian president a ‘thief’ and a ‘convict’
Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Argentina following comments by Argentine President Javier Milei targeting Brazilian Preside...
US House rebukes Trump again over Iran war
The US House of Representatives has approved a Democratic-led war powers resolution criticising President Donald Trump's handling ...
From Threats to Turnarounds: Seven Trump Reversals on Iran
President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he had called off planned U.S. strikes on Iran, saying renewed negotiations ha...
Widening war engulfs more countries
The U.S. carried out fresh strikes in Iran on Wednesday, the U.S. military said, further intensifying a five-month-old war that wa...
US and Saudi Arabia Launch Strikes on Iran-Backed Militias in Iraq
The United States and Saudi Arabia have carried out joint air strikes against Iran-backed militia targets in eastern Iraq after a ...
Gulf states back plan to let Iran collect voluntary fees to use Hormuz
Gulf states have backed a proposal aimed at reducing disruption to global oil trade by allowing Iran to collect voluntary fees fro...
Trump says deal reached to disarm Hamas, Israeli support for plan remains uncertain
U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Cairo between mediators and Hamas leaders on Thursday have led to a phased disarmament a...
Trump says Israel ‘would not survive’ without US
US President Donald Trump sought to shape expectations ahead of his first meeting in months with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin N...
Typhoon Noul makes landfall in China, with hundreds of thousands evacuated
Typhoon Noul has struck southern China, bringing powerful winds and heavy rainfall to Guangdong province and Hong Kong, forcing mo...
Qantas Tests Ultra-Long-Range Airbus on 17,000km Nonstop Flight to Melbourne
Qantas has completed a major test flight of its new ultra-long-range Airbus A350-1000ULR, with the aircraft landing in Melbourne a...
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Greek PM Mitsotakis urges EU to use all available tools against ‘weaponized’ migration
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the European Union to make full use of existing legal and operational tools to coun...
EU Socialists accuse governments of politicising Ceuta and undermining Schengen
The Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament called on European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to inte...
EU agrees rescue centre in eastern Libya as migrant departures rise
The European Union has agreed plans to establish a Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in the eastern Libyan city of Bengh...
Spain and Italy in diplomatic dispute on Schengen rules
Italy and Spain have become embroiled in a diplomatic dispute after thousands of migrants reportedly entered the Spanish enclave o...
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From Threats to Turnarounds: Seven Trump Reversals on Iran
President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he had called off planned U.S. strikes on Iran, saying renewed negotiations ha...
How can Trump ‘cut off all trade’ with Spain?
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an order for a trade embargo on Spain on Wednesday, asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to ...
What is the ‘Omega Block’ causing Europe’s intense heatwave?
The intense heatwave engulfing Western Europe, resulting in more than 40 deaths in France alone, is being sustained by a weather p...
What happens next? How the UK will choose Starmer’s successor
Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would resign, with a new leader to be in place by the time parliament returns in S...
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Edinburgh Fringe listing for Amanda Knox show draws renewed scrutiny over Kercher case
Amanda Knox is set to perform a one-woman comedy show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe that draws on her experience of being accus...
Ariana Grande to take a break from public life
Ariana Grande is to withdraw from public appearances and will no longer star in an upcoming musical production in London when she ...
Franco Baresi, Milan icon and Italy great, dies aged 66
Franco Baresi, the legendary AC Milan captain who spent his entire professional career with the club and became one of the most ce...
What does Infantino’s proposal to sell stakes in FIFA subsidiary entail?
FIFA plans to create a $20 billion subsidiary to run the World Cup and its other events, offering stakes of up to 20% in FIFA Forw...
