Britain could build up to seven new nuclear power plants by 2050, as well as offshore wind to diversify energy sources, a senior minister said Sunday.

Mubadala of the UAE will invest $395 million into CityFibre, Britain’s biggest independent provider of full-fiber broadband infrastructure, according to media reports.

The International Energy Agency cut its world oil demand forecast for 2022 on Wednesday, warning that sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine could spark a global supply "shock". "Faced with what could turn into the biggest supply crisis in decades, global energy markets are at a crossroads," the...

Ten months of talks in Vienna have brought major powers close to renewing a landmark 2015 agreement on regulating Iran's nuclear program. But the negotiations were halted again after Russia demanded guarantees that Western sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine would not damage its trade with Iran.

Britain on Sunday defended lobbying Saudi Arabia to up its oil output as energy sanctions on Russia hit Western consumers, after the Gulf kingdom executed a record number of prisoners.

Negotiators meeting in Vienna to try and salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, which is meant to prevent Tehran from acquiring an atomic bomb, have made ‘significant progress,’ US State Department deputy spokeswoman Jalina Porter told reporters, echoing other nations in recent weeks.

On Friday, US President Joe Biden extended his country's measures against Russia to include sanctions on President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, including a travel ban for the two statesmen. Biden was the first world leader to announce sanctions, hours after Putin declared a "military operation" into...

The Vienna talks, which involve Iran as well as Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly, and the United States indirectly, resumed in late November.

The resumption of the waiver, ended by the Donald Trump administration in 2020, ‘would be essential to ensuring Iran's swift compliance’ if a new deal on controlling Tehran's nuclear program can be reached in talks in Vienna, a US State Department official has said.

Facebook has been mired in global controversies for its ad policies.

The authorities overseeing Libya's first presidential election said earlier this week holding it on Friday as scheduled would be "impossible". The vote was intended to mark a fresh start for North African country, a year after a landmark ceasefire and more than a decade after its 2011 revolt.

Officials have said the deal would become obsolete within weeks if Iran continued to step up its nuclear activities as it has been doing since 2019, a year after the United States left the landmark agreement and reimposed sanctions.

Beyond property woes and virus fears, all eyes this week are on the Fed, which must carefully calibrate its response between raising rates and pulling the rug from under a tenuous recovery or sticking to the status quo and letting inflation rise even further. Analysts expect the central bank to...

The landmark 2015 nuclear accord was initially agreed between Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. But it began unravelling in 2018 when then US president Donald Trump pulled out and reimposed sanctions, prompting Iran to start exceeding limits on its nuclear program the following year.

The Islamic republic shot down Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 shortly after take-off from its capital Tehran on January 8, 2020.

Group Captain Peter Hackett completed a short flight in an Ikarus C42 microlight aircraft at an airfield in Gloucestershire, western England, earlier this month.

Rich countries stand accused of failing at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to deliver much-needed finance to vulnerable states at risk of drought, rising seas, fire and storms. The deal, the European Commission says, has "kept the Paris targets alive". However, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stresses it was "not...

Tehran has said the world powers should not exceed the bounds of the 2015 deal they are seeking to revive. The deal was between Iran and five world powers other than Russia: Britain, China, France, Germany and the US.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE have joined the United States and Britain Wednesday in urging the leaders of last week's military coup in Sudan to restore the civilian government. The united front with the two Arab powers comes amid hopes that the military can be persuaded to accept a climbdown.

Amir Lazar, chief of Israeli air force operations, told reporters the drills "don't focus on Iran", but army officials have said the Islamic republic remains Israel's top strategic threat and at the centre of much of its military planning.

With the latest international climate conference just days away, the proposed ban will halt support to new coal power stations that don't have systems that trap the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

Iran and Britain, China, France and Russia besides the EU opened talks in Vienna in April.

The 15-member Council had been on track to extend the mission in mid-September for a year

Iran has been trying to enter the SCO for years, and was close last year, but Tajikisatn objected to it.

The US State Department warning is unusually specific, mentions several gates that should be vacated immediately.

About 5,000 Afghan nationals believed to be at risk due to the current crisis will be resettled in the UK.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani reportedly issued this warning in a meeting with Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.

Bennett said Israel had shared intelligence with the United States, Britain and others also tying Iran to the attack.

A British security guard and a Romanian crew member were killed in what analysts said bore all the hallmarks of the "shadow war" between enemies Iran and Israel

Britain third-largest investing country in Egypt after UAE, Saudi Arabia Egyptian food exports to UK surged by 76 percent despite the pandemic Trade between Egypt and Britain increased 8 percent year-on-year to £519 million ($722 million) in the first quarter of 2021, said Nasser Hamed, director of the EU Administration...

The ship will provide a global platform for trade negotiations and British businesses' products The ship's construction likely to begin in 2022 and be completed within 4 years Britain will build what it is calling a new "national flagship" vessel to host trade events and promote its post-Brexit interests around...