Uber to give UK drivers workers’ rights after court defeat
In a major victory for unions, Uber’s more than 70,000 British drivers will be paid the minimum wage while picking up and driving passengers as part of the ride-hailing company’...
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Man City stroll past Moenchengladbach into Champions League quarters
Manchester City marched into the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the fourth straight season after a 2-0 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach on Tuesday that completed a 4-0 aggregate victory.
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Real Madrid make light work of Atalanta to reach quarters
Real Madrid easily overcame Atalanta 3-1 at home in their Champions League last-16 second leg on Wednesday to stroll into the quarter-finals 4-1 on aggregate.
Karim Benzema scored a sixth ...
Undercover police at bars scorned as ‘laughable’ plan to keep UK women safe
Plans to send plainclothes police to British nightclubs and improve public lighting to increase women’s safety in the wake of a high-profile murder case were criticised as “laughable” by ...
Greece, Turkey hold talks on maritime dispute in Athens
Greece and Turkey held more exploratory talks in Athens on Tuesday, agreeing to talk again after more than 60 rounds as they seek common ground on a long-standing maritime boundaries dispute ...
Erdogan says Saudi Arabia wants to buy armed drones from Turkey
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia is seeking to buy armed unmanned aerial vehicles from Turkey, after years of tension between the two regional powers.
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IMF, late-comer on climate change, should embrace ambitious goals – report
By Andrea Shalal
The International Monetary Fund should adopt ambitious goals for assessing the physical and policy-related risks of climate change facing its members after years of paying minimal and ...
Athens tackles heat and pollution with pocket-sized parks
By Deborah Kyvrikosaios
Tucked between rows of apartment blocks on an Athens street, a strip of green with a few trees, some plants and a bench offers a breathing space ...
Ex-officer on trial for George Floyd’s death asks to show jury an earlier arrest
Almost exactly a year before George Floyd was killed in a deadly arrest by Minneapolis police officers in May 2020, he found himself in another encounter with police in which he ...
Footballers’ wives up the ante in ‘WAGatha Christie’ court battle
The stakes rose on Tuesday in a courtroom battle between the wives of former England football stars Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy as new vitriol emerged and a judge described ...
EToro lists on stock market with $10.4 billion deal
Multi-asset investment platform eToro, which has an important presence in Cyprus, said on Tuesday it will go public through a merger with a blank-check firm backed by banking entrepreneur Betsy ...
Wenger calls for World Cup every two years, radical calendar changes
Arsene Wenger says FIFA should consider holding the World Cup and Euros every two years and that a review of the international match calendar will consider compressed qualifiers and enforced ...
Europe seeks to restart travel with Covid ‘pass’ despite vaccine squeeze
The European Union will on Wednesday unveil a COVID-19 pass to allow free travel this summer and support the struggling tourism sector despite the bloc’s sluggish vaccination campaign and ...
Myanmar families hold funerals for crackdown victims as activists defy security crackdown
The families of dozens of people killed in demonstrations against military rule in Myanmar attended their funerals on Tuesday as more protesters defied the security forces and at least one ...
Russia will block Twitter in one month unless it deletes banned content
Russia will block Twitter in one month unless the U.S. social media giant complies with a demand to remove banned content, Russian news agencies cited a senior regulatory official ...
Thailand in green rush as government pushes cannabis as cash crop
Thais flocked to a cannabis exhibition as interest and demand in the plant surges after the government unlocked hemp use in food and cosmetics in the latest move to promote ...
Nuno and Klopp relieved after Patricio deemed ‘OK’
Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Nuno Espirito Santo was relieved after the club’s medical staff said goalkeeper Rui Patricio escaped what initially looked like a serious head injury during their 1-0 ...
Kremlin says pressure on countries to reject Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is unprecedented
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that pressure on some countries to refuse to buy Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 was at unprecedented levels but had no chance of ...
Greece, Turkey resume preliminary talks on maritime dispute
Greece and Turkey began another round of exploratory talks in Athens on Tuesday, seeking common ground on a long-standing maritime boundaries dispute before a European Union summit later this month.
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Prince Philip leaves hospital after treatment
Britain’s Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, has left the London hospital where he has been staying for treatment, a Reuters witness said on Tuesday.
Philip, the Duke ...
AstraZeneca boss is in the “hot seat” over vaccine delays
AstraZeneca’s chief executive is in the “hot seat” over delays to deliveries of its COVID-19 vaccine shot to European countries and must provide more details of his production plans, ...
Blinken warns China against ‘coercion and aggression’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned China against using “coercion and aggression” on Tuesday as he sought to use his first trip abroad to shore up Asian alliances ...
Nord Stream 2 moves ahead; Berlin seeks compromise with Washington
Germany is betting the US administration will take a pragmatic approach to the Nord Stream 2 project to ship Russian gas to Europe and is pushing for the pipeline’s completion ...
North Korea tells US, ‘if you want peace, don’t cause a stink’
The sister of North Korean leader, Kim Yo Jong, criticised ongoing military drills in South Korea and warned the new U.S. administration against “causing a stink” if it wants ...