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Rachel Reeves has said she will amend the finance bill to soften planned changes to the tax regime for “the non-dom community” after intense lobbying from wealthy UK residents.

In the latest evidence of the government’s determination to roll out the red carpet for businesses and investors in a bid …

On Sunday, five names will feature on the ballot in Belarus’s presidential election, but the outcome is a foregone conclusion: Alexander Lukashenko’s 31-year reign is poised to continue in the carefully managed vote, granting the dictator his seventh term in power.

The elections, described by the opposition as a “farce”, …

Germany goes to the polls on 23 February for a snap federal election that, barring mishaps, will set the course of the EU’s largest and most influential member state, and the eurozone’s biggest – if faltering – economy, for the next four years.

Here is a guide to what is …

The Met has been judged to be turning around its extensive failings and has been removed from special measures after more than two years under extra scrutiny.

The decision was announced by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services on Thursday.

The Met, Britain’s largest police force, employs …

A board game based on the mafia wars that raged in Sicily in the 1980s has caused controversy in Italy, with the sister of the murdered anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone describing it as an offence to all those who had fought to free Italy of organised crime.

La Famiglia: The …

The head of the Nato military alliance has called for a “step up” in support for Ukraine, to put Kyiv in the strongest position to achieve a sustainable peace deal with Russia.

Speaking on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mark Rutte warned against scaling back support …

The EU’s new trade chief has said the bloc could consider including the UK in a pan-European trade agreement, but emphasised that “the ball is in the UK’s court”.

While the UK’s Labour government has ruled out returning to the single market and customs union after Brexit, the possibility of …

The government’s statistics agency is spending £8m to hire an army of low-paid temporary workers amid efforts to fix its “virtually unusable” data on unemployment and wages in Britain.

Under pressure over the quality of its data, the

Office for National Statistics

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A few days after a ceasefire brought at least temporary relief to Gaza, violence erupted in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday, the Israeli military launched what was described as

an extensive raid in the city of Jenin

Rachel Reeves’s bid to expand Heathrow airport could add £40 to the cost of an airline ticket, according to the Treasury’s own analysis.

The chancellor’s proposal to minimise the carbon emissions of a bigger Heathrow include the use of sustainable aviation fuels, which

experts say