Iran founded a new defence council after attacks in June by Israel and the US, Iranian state media has reported. Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the country’s highest security body, made the ...

Lloyds Banking Group and Close Brothers saw big share gains after the industry won a reprieve in the motor finance case before the UK’s ...

Vanessa Frake warned the current justice system is ‘warehousing prisoners’ and ‘turning out better criminals into society’.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, a liberal who took office in June after winning an early election to replace ousted conservative Yoon Suk Yeol, has vowed to improve relations with Pyongyang, ...

Hong Kong authorities strengthened a crackdown on 16 overseas-based activists who were previously targeted by bounties on suspicion of endangering national security, implementing measures that include ...

Desperation has gripped the Palestinian territory of more than two million, which experts warn faces ‘a worst-case scenario ...

Pope Leo has told more than a million Catholic youths at a closing Mass for a week-long encounter with the next generation of ...

Israeli forces killed at least 23 Palestinians seeking food on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, according to hospital officials.

Pope Leo has urged more than a million Catholic youths to “spread your enthusiasm and the witness of your faith” when they ...

A report from KPMG has warned that traditional banks will need to overhaul and embrace AI as they face a squeeze on profits over the years ahead.

The Home Office is giving £100 million of extra funding to support the pilot of the new “one in, one out” returns agreement between the UK and France and other efforts to crack down on small boat ...

Jess Phillips, the Home Office minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, condemned the Reform leader.