Dubai’s Emirates to resume Lagos flights after Nigeria releases funds
Emirates will resume some flights to Nigeria this month after the Central Bank of Nigeria released a portion of funds the Dubai airline had earned in the country but had ...
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Turkey raises electricity, gas prices by 50 per cent for industry, 20 per cent for homes
Turkish authorities raised electricity and natural gas prices for households by around 20 per cent and by around 50 per cent for industry on Thursday, putting further upward pressure on inflation, which ...
Two Palestinians dead in West Bank clashes with Israeli forces
Two Palestinians were killed in separate clashes with the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said.
A 25-year-old man from the al-Ein refugee ...
Cyprus based company behind Russian McDonald’s buyer snapping up another Western firm
The owner of McDonald’s former restaurants in Russia has offered up to 151 million euros ($151 million) to buy Finnish packaging firm Huhtamaki’s local business, adding to his burgeoning empire, ...
Last orders: UK pubs brace for mass closures as energy costs soar
Like thousands of pubs across Britain, the Red Lion and Sun fears financial ruin this winter as its energy costs surge, just as business was starting to recover from the ...
Under the eye of the Tiger, Williams aces second-round test
Serena Williams credited Tiger Woods on Wednesday as one of the main reasons she was still playing tennis and had the golf great on his feet during her stunning win ...
US Open day three wrapup
NEW YORK, Sept 1 (Reuters) –
Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova ousted last year’s finalist Leylah Fernandez 6-3 7-6(3), while 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu cruised into the third round with a 6-2 6-4 ...
UK’s Liz Truss vows “robust” energy bill support for households
Liz Truss, the frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister, said she would act immediately to help people cope with surging energy prices that threaten to leave ...
China may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, says UN
China‘s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing U.N. human rights chief said in a ...
High inflation, recession risk widen ECB dilemma
Euro zone inflation jumped to another record high and will soon hit double-digit territory, heralding a string of big interest rate hikes even as a painful recession appears increasingly certain.
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Cuba seeks more electricity supply from Turkish powerships
Cuba, mired in an energy crisis that has brought frequent blackouts, is negotiating with a Turkish company to have it double the megawatts it currently produces for the country from ...
Tencent, Sony to take stake in “Elden Ring” publisher FromSoftware
Units of Tencent and Sony will take minority stakes in FromSoftware Inc, which publishes hit action role-playing title “Elden Ring” in Japan, via a third-party allotment of new shares, parent ...
Qatar central bank issues first license for digital payments
Qatar’s central bank has issued its first license for digital payments services to iPay by Vodafone Qatar and Ooredoo Money, it said in a tweet on Tuesday.
Halland hits another hat-trick, Arsenal keep up 100% start
Erling Haaland continued the blistering start to his Manchester City career by scoring a hat-trick inside 38 minutes as the Premier League champions smashed promoted Nottingham Forest 6-0 on Wednesday.
Haaland ...
UN inspectors near Ukrainian nuclear plant on mission to avert an accident (Wrapup)
United Nations inspectors arrived on Wednesday in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on a mission to prevent a nuclear accident at a Russian-occupied power plant where nearby shelling has ...
U.S. will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, Biden tells Israel’s Lapid
President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday the United States will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, the White House said, as Tehran seeks ...
Greek star Sakkari crashes out of US Open after surprise defeat
Greek third seed Maria Sakkari became the biggest casualty in the women’s draw at the U.S. Open when she fell to a 3-6 7-5 7-5 defeat to unseeded ...
Gazprom head says ‘sanctions confusion’ means Siemens cannot service Nord Stream 1 -Interfax
Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller on Wednesday said Western sanctions mean Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE is unable to carry out regular maintenance on equipment for the Nord Stream 1 natural ...
Media outlets ask court to unseal more records tied to FBI search of Trump’s homes
News media outlets on Wednesday filed a new bid to unseal even more court records tied to the FBI’s unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, ...
FTSE 100 logs worst day in seven weeks as recession worries mount
UK’s FTSE 100 logged its worst daily performance in seven weeks on Wednesday as warnings of even higher inflation in the coming months raised fears of a deep recession in ...
Lebanon president, amid financial meltdown, returns amended bank secrecy law to parliament
Lebanon’s president on Wednesday returned to parliament an amended banking secrecy law that lawmakers passed around a month ago, saying it needed further tweaks to strengthen it.
Parliament’s ...
Germany says it will expand military presence in Indo-Pacific
Germany will expand its military presence in the Indo-Pacific by sending more warships and joining drills with allies as it keeps an eye on the “enormous” build-up of China’s ...
Hackers hit Italian oil company Eni’s computer networks
Italian oil company Eni’s computer networks were hacked in recent days but the consequences appear to be minor so far, the company said on Wednesday.
“The internal protection systems ...
Queen Elizabeth will appoint new prime minister at Balmoral
Queen Elizabeth will break with tradition and appoint Britain’s new prime minister at her Balmoral Castle residence in Scotland, rather than at Buckingham Palace in London, due to mobility ...