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Kosovo goes to the polls on Sunday in an election that could mark a crossroads in the young country’s history and even determine its future territorial integrity in an increasingly hostile world.

With the election outcome very much in the balance, the prime minister, Albin Kurti, held a mass rally …

A small device in every home was supposed to be the key to solving Britain’s energy headaches: encouraging consumers not to waste power, preventing shockingly high bills and making the system greener. Instead, smart meters have become an emblem for the energy industry’s poor reputation as the costs of rolling …

Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, is now neck and neck with Labour largely because its stance on immigration is proving attractive to floating voters, according to the latest Opinium poll for the

Observer

The rise of the populist rightwing party is causing increasing concern in the Labour high …

Britain’s broken welfare system is fuelling the “greatest unemployment challenge of a generation”, ministers have concluded as they draw up a root-and-branch overhaul designed to counter the spiralling numbers deemed too unwell to work.

Rules that force benefit claimants into an “all or nothing” choice between working and being deemed …

Another Saturday night at the movies with a stunningly different conclusion. This was an absolute thriller which kept everyone guessing right up to the final breathless reel. The clincher, in the end, was a sensational 79th minute try from replacement Elliot Daly, bursting unstoppably on to a short ball from …

Andrew Gwynne, a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care, has been sacked from the government over comments posted on an internal WhatsApp group.

Gwynne, 50, the MP for Gorton and Denton, has also been suspended by the Labour party over the messages reported by the Mail on Sunday.

As a 2016 presidential candidate and White House occupant, Donald Trump lambasted NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem in protest at civil rights abuses. Now, set to become the first incumbent president to attend a Super Bowl, it appears that the US’s most popular sport is genuflecting before …

Large crowds gathered outside the proposed site of new Chinese “mega-embassy” in London on Saturday, as politicians and protesters expressed concerns it could be used to “control” dissidents.

More than 1,000 people congregated outside the Royal Mint Court, the former headquarters of the UK’s coin maker, near the Tower of …

On a foggy, frigid morning in Saxony, far-right MP René Bochmann could not believe his party’s luck in the final days of the German election campaign, with all eyes on

Alternative für Deutschland

Since conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz signalled a

taboo-breaking openness to …

A millionaire businessman charged with the 2017

murder of the Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

Yorgen Fenech, the heir to a casino and hotels group, was arrested and

charged with complicity …