Britain's former finance minister in Liz Truss's short-lived government said in an interview he had warned the ex-premier to "slow down" her tax cuts that triggered economic turmoil, leading to her d
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A longtime ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who later became an outspoken critic, has died at the age of 72. Viktor Cherkesov died in St Petersburg on Tuesday night, the New York Post said in
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Moscow announced that its forces had completed their withdrawal from the strategic Ukrainian city of Kherson, after Ukraine said it had reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements abandoned by
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China's national security agency in Hong Kong spent HK$508 million ($65 million) on a luxury villa in an exclusive neighbourhood perched on a hill above the city, registry data has revealed.The purch
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization's leader, is in the rare position of heading a UN agency's response to a humanitarian crisis in which his own family's survival is at stake.
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Plans are being made to rebuild the world's largest plane first destroyed by Russian forces in the early days of its invasion of Ukraine -- though its manufacturer says such a goal remains far off. D
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