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Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of putting the profits of speculators before the interests of staff at one of Britain’s oldest engineering firms, which is the object of a hostile takeover deal that has been labelled...

New Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has said that she expects her country could become a republic within her lifetime. In a wide-ranging interview with the Guardian before she flies to London for the Commonwealth Heads of Government...

At least seven Palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded by Israeli forces in Gaza, Palestinian medics have said, as protesters kicked off a planned six-week demonstration demanding the right of return for refugees. Israel’s military said...

In an interview with BIRN, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci said Serbian leaders in the past had often tried to discuss dividing Kosovo – but he had always refused to countenance such talk. Kosovo President Hashim Thaci...

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci told BIRN that the authorities would investigate why the arrested head of Serbia’s Kosovo office was paraded in handcuffs through Pristina. In an interview with BIRN’s TV show Jeta ne Kosove, the President...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, there has been a glaring lack of leadership from Facebook. Almost five days of silence passed before its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, faced the public with a post to...

Distraught families are demanding information from the Venezuelan authorities about how at least 78 people died in a fire while they were locked in police cells. Police fired teargas as relatives clashed with police outside the...

Despite decades of life under atheistic Communism, a new sociological report suggests a high percentage of Bulgarians believe in magic, supernatural forces and extra-terrestrial life forms. Many Bulgarians still believe in magic, superstitions and conspiracy theories,...

Kosovo police arrested five Turkish nationals on Thursday, three in Gjakova/Djakovica and two others in Prizren, all of whom work for Mehmet Akif schools in Kosovo. The Gulistan Educational Institutions, which operate four Mehmet Akif elementary and...

H&M said price cuts and cold weather were to blame for a slump in profits at the start of the year, and warned more discounting would be needed to lift flagging sales at the fashion group. Pretax profit...