Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey is working on measures to ensure UK pensioners who just exceed the threshold for paying income tax won’t have to do so, Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s spokesman said.
Ukraine faces sweeping cuts to its war-ravaged budget unless lawmakers adopt unpopular measures needed to access billions in western aid ahead of winter, according to its new prime minister.
Thailand aims to finalize the substance of a US tariff agreement before Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul speaks with President Donald Trump later this week, potentially seeking a slightly lower rate.
The court weighs in as multiple states begin early voting.
Italy’s Senate backed Premier Giorgia Meloni’s electoral-reform bill proposal, handing her coalition a political victory and setting the stage for a final vote in the lower house.
Venezuelan activist Omar González spent 15 months holed up inside Argentina’s embassy in Caracas before escaping the country last year in a clandestine US-coordinated operation.
President Donald Trump’s opposition to guardrails on artificial intelligence puts him at odds with a growing number of lawmakers from both parties, with AI safety fears adding to voters’ misgivings about the technology heading into the midterm elections. Britain’s employers shed ...
Several thousand Romanian farmers and shepherds took to the streets of Bucharest to protest an export ban on the country’s livestock imposed by the European Union following outbreaks of sheep and goat pox.
New York Assemblyman Alex Bores and his former chief of staff are launching a $30 million effort to craft an artificial intelligence safety agenda for the 2028 presidential election.
Ukraine said it hit the Syzran refinery in Russia’s Volga region overnight as the two nations continued attacks on each other’s critical infrastructure despite US President Donald Trump’s claim of an energy truce.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit China on Wednesday, his second such trip since the US and Israel attacked his country in late February.
Hong Kong leader John Lee is taking the unprecedented step of outlining a five-year vision for the Asian financial hub. The question is whether he’ll be the chief executive to see it through.
El activista venezolano Omar González pasó 15 meses refugiado en la embajada de Argentina en Caracas antes de escapar del país el año pasado en una operación clandestina coordinada por Estados Unidos.
Beijing has concerns, too. Just not necessarily the same as those of the leading US tech players.
US President Donald Trump and Ukraine offered differing accounts of a supposed agreement with Russia to stop attacks on energy infrastructure. Trump blamed the strikes for the surge in diesel prices and posted on social media that Moscow and Kyiv both agreed to stop them. Ukraini...
Sweden’s final election result is now expected on Thursday, a day later than previously anticipated, in one of the tightest parliamentary votes in Swedish history.
A railway section failure at multiple locations in the Netherlands appears to have been caused by sabotage, according to ProRail, the Dutch government agency responsible for railway infrastructure.
Former Indonesian Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa offered his own explanation for his surprise dismissal this week: a sweeping personnel reshuffle that had stirred friction inside his ministry.