Azerbaijan's "doors are still open", the COP29 presidency's lead negotiator said Thursday after France's ecology minister cancelled her trip to the UN climate summit over "unacceptable" remarks by ...

An outlandish contest daring participants to impersonate Japanese samurai writhing in pain after "seppuku" -- ritual suicide -- has been called off after criticism that it was in poor taste. Dubbed ...

A war monitor said an Israeli strike on an apartment killed four people in the upscale Mazzeh district of Damascus on Thursday, also reporting a similar attack on the capital's outskirts.

A Russian military court on Thursday sentenced a woman to eight years in jail for criticising the Ukraine offensive online and calling for the assassination of President Vladimir Putin, state media ...

The Netherlands is still dealing with the social and political fallout of violence a week ago in the streets of Amsterdam between supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv and men on scooters.

Turkish officials have seized nearly nine tonnes of methamphetamine, half of it at the Iranian border, in the last two weeks, the interior minister said on Thursday.

France's finance minister on Thursday said his government is doing everything it can to block the adoption of a trade pact between the European Union and four South American countries. French farmers ...

Visiting United Nations nuclear chief Rafael Grossi said in Tehran Thursday that achieving "results" in talks with Iran is vital to avoid a war.

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A decision to extend trials for the controversial 20-minute red card in rugby union has been deferred until after th Tests, the sport's governing body World Rugby said on Thursday.

UEFA has appointed an ethics and disciplinary inspector to investigate Premier League referee David Coote after a video emerged of him allegedly snorting a white powder during Euro 2024.

An international festival promoting peace that was due to take place in violence-racked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been called off for security reasons, organisers said on Thursday.