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Bulgaria is urgently working to prevent the closure of its only oil refinery before U.S. sanctions on the Russian owner come into force later this month.

Authorities are contemplating whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who, they claim, shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she accidentally went to the wrong address.

Israel is detaining dozens of Palestinians from Gaza in an underground prison where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food, and are prohibited from receiving news of their families or the outside world.

Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least four people and damaging energy infrastructure in three separate regions, according to Ukrainian officials.

A former Metropolitan police officer allegedly used sex workers while on duty in the midst of a major investigation into behavioural standards, the Guardian can reveal.

Havering Council has agreed to pay more than £7,000 to a homeless mother after her family was left to live in unsafe housing.

Peace negotiations between Pakistan and Afghanistan collapsed, just one day after both parties accused each other of initiating border clashes that threatened to violate a ceasefire facilitated by Qatar.

The Government’s independent ethics adviser must investigate whether Sir Keir Starmer risked a conflict of interest when the new football watchdog’s chairman was chosen, the Conservatives have said.

An exclusive tally of Roche’s patent portfolio for its four monoclonal antibodies (“mAb”) treatments for breast cancer shows that, 27 years after the first product hit the market, about 100 patents still protect its products.

The police are searching for a young man on an electric scooter who is accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in broad daylight.

More than 5,000 fossil fuel lobbyists were granted access to the UN climate summits over the past four years, a period characterized by an increase in catastrophic extreme weather, insufficient climate action, and record oil and gas expansion, new research reveals.

Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan fell 20% in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), marking a continued decline since the Taliban’s 2022 nationwide ban on poppy farming.

Romanian prosecutors are investigating possible fraud involving CO₂ certificates at steel plant Liberty Galați.

Piracy off the Somali coast reached its highest point in 2011, when 237 attacks were reported. Somali piracy in the region in 2011 cost the world’s economy €6 billion, with €138 million paid out in ransoms.

The European Commission claims Moscow’s war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine has altered the risks linked to Russian visa applicants.

Bulgaria, a Balkan nation with a population of 6.5 million, is situated along a former key route for migrants traveling from the Middle East and Afghanistan to Europe, passing through Iran and Turkey.

China’s president Xi Jinping attended the official launch of a new state-of-the-art aircraft carrier on Wednesday as the country makes moves to rival the US navy.

Two men have been charged by Irish authorities with possession of explosives in connection with an alleged planned terrorist attack by a far-right extremist group.

Media continue to report on Pavel Durov’s mafia—his friends who profit from personal data, bot farms, hacking services, dirty Telegram Stars purchases, and outright scams.

The EU executive plans to create a Centre for Democratic Resilience to counter disinformation from Russia and other authoritarian regimes, according to a leaked paper.

A pensioner who killed his stepdaughter and her husband in their home before picking their children up from school was “driven by resentment,” a judge has ruled.

This is the shocking moment a pro-Palestine protester lights a flare at a classical music performance – and receives a brutal beating.

Police in Indonesia say explosions have ripped through a High School, with three victims left in a serious condition in hospital as a teenager is arrested.

A devastated mom says her daughter is terrified to return to school after being kicked and punched by a group of youths while walking home.