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France faces further political uncertainty as the prime minister, François Bayrou, prepares to ignore threats of a no-confidence motion and force the 2025 budget bill through without a vote.

With no majority in the Assemblée Nationale, the centrist politician has little choice but to use the constitutional measure, known as …

The economy minister for Northern Ireland is to step down from his role at Stormont after being elected to the Seanad in Dublin, the upper house of the Irish parliament.

Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy secured one of the 60 seats in the Seanad, with the support of Sinn Féin TDs …

Keir Starmer stopped using a personal email account when he was opposition leader after being warned about a suspected hack by a Russian group, it has been reported.

The suspected breach happened in 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a book about the Labour leader, reported …

Stock markets in the UK and Europe have suffered heavy falls after Donald Trump announced a number of tariffs, prompting fears of a global trade war.

The US president rattled investors by signing off on tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico over the weekend, triggering what was quickly described as …

A bomb exploded in the lobby of a luxury apartment block in Moscow, killing a pro-Russia paramilitary leader from eastern Ukraine alongside his bodyguard.

The bomb detonated just as a man with bodyguards entered the lobby of the Scarlet Sails residential complex on the banks of the Moscow River …

A group of MPs and charities will argue that Thames Water should be put into a government-handled administration at a court hearing to decide whether to approve £3bn in emergency funding.

A high court judge will hear from Britain’s biggest water supplier and groups of rival creditors on Monday before …

Europeans who witnessed democracy crumble before their eyes have some words of advice for Americans now entering the second Trump era and worrying about the durability of their rights and freedoms: stay united, safeguard your civic institutions and never, never give up.

Citizens of central and eastern Europe are long …

The Roman philosopher Seneca is credited with saying, “Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”

In sports, some teams prepare better than others. But some also get more opportunities than others.

Luck can take many forms. It can be a fortuitous bounce, particularly with an oblong-ish football that can go any …

The Yanomami villagers had trekked for days through some of Brazil’s most secluded jungles to reach the assembly, their traditional clothing announcing an existence deeply entwined with nature that stretched back thousands of years.

As they filed into a thatched communal hut to share stories of their lives, the forest …

In the sleepy Nigerian port town of Koko, the reminder of a forgotten invasion by the British more than a century ago has itself been forgotten.

A statue of Nanna Olomu, the Nigerian merchant prince forced into exile by the British in Accra in 1894, stands outside the bungalow where …