Nadal’s Grand Slam bid faces Djokovic challenge at Wimbledon
Rafa Nadal’s hopes of winning Wimbledon for the first time in over a decade and staying on track for the calendar year Grand Slam will meet a familiar adversary ...
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G7 nations announce Russia gold ban as summit starts under shadow of war
Members of the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Sunday announced a ban on imports of Russian gold as the G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps begins under the shadow ...
Johnson: cost of Russian victory in Ukraine is too high
World leaders must recognise the price of supporting Ukraine including the surge in energy and food costs but must also acknowledge that the price of allowing Russia to win would ...
Ukraine suffers major setback after fall of Sievierodonetsk
Ukraine special forces remained in Sievierodonetsk directing artillery fire against Russian-backed troops, said an adviser to Ukraine’s president, after the city fell in a major setback for Kyiv as ...
Nasa to launch first rocket from a commercial spaceport in Australia on Sunday
NASA will launch a rocket from the remote wilderness of northern Australia on Sunday evening, the first commercial space launch in Australia and the agency’s first from a commercial ...
US crypto firm Harmony hit by $100 million heist
US crypto firm Harmony said on Friday that thieves stole around $100 million worth of digital coins from one of its key products, the latest in a string of cyber heists ...
Germany to deploy temporary foreign workers to ease staff shortage at German airports
Germany will allow the entry of foreign workers to fill staff shortages at the German airports as a temporary solution, Bild am Sonntag reported on Sunday, citing the interior, transport ...
Samsung Australia fined $9.7m over false water-resistance claims
Australia’s competition regulator said on Thursday a court ordered the local unit of Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) to pay a A$14 million ($9.65 million) penalty for nine misleading advertisements about a ...
Saudi Arabia to invest $3.4 bln in vaccine, biomedical drugs sector
Saudi Arabia’s industry and Mineral Resources minister said on Friday the country would invest $3.4 billion in the vaccine and biomedical drugs sector, according to state news agency SPA.
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G7 summit kicks off under shadow of Ukraine war, stagflation risk
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz welcomes leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies on Sunday to a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps overshadowed by the war in Ukraine and ...
Lufthansa expects flight operations to return to normal in 2023
Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) does not expect its global airline operations to return to normal until 2023 after staff shortages and booming demand amid the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions forced it to ...
Biden signs gun safety bill into law, takes swipe at Supreme Court
US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first major federal gun reform in three decades, days after a decision he condemned by the Supreme Court expandingfirearm owners’ ...
Horror on Oslo Pride day as gunman goes on deadly rampage at gay bar
Terrified revellers at a gay bar in Oslo hid in a basement and desperately called loved ones as a gunman went on the rampage, killing two people and injuring 21 on ...
Turkey re-evaluating death penalty after Erdogan’s wildfires comment
Turkey will reconsider a 2004 decision to abolish capital punishment, the justice minister said on Saturday, after President Tayyip Erdogan raised the death penalty in connection with the cause of this ...
Johnson vows to lead Conservatives to next election
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed on Saturday to lead his Conservative party into the next national election, which could be more than two years away, despite two bruising by-election ...
Thousands unite in Polish, Ukrainian LGBT+ parades in Warsaw
Thousands of Poles and Ukrainians are walking for peace and demanding an end to discrimination against the LGBT+ community on Saturday, in a joint Pride march in Warsaw that organisers ...
Morocco says 18 migrants died during mass crossing into Spanish enclave
Morocco said 18 migrants died trying to cross into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla on Friday, after a violent two-hour skirmish between migrants and border officers that also led ...
When you buy diamonds, think of Bucha, Ukraine envoy says
Consumers should think twice when buying diamonds that could be funding Russia’s war, a Ukrainian diplomat said on Friday as a fraught international conflict diamond forum in Botswana came ...
Crises keep demand for cash high, banknote machine company says
There’s still a lot of life left in the traditional bank note, printing company Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions said, with coronavirus and the war in Ukraine driving up ...
Each sport must set transgender rules says IOC despite criticism
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has defended its position that it is up to each international sports body to set their own rules for transgender athletes’ inclusion, despite criticism from ...
Tears, bubbles, defiance outside US Supreme Court after abortion ruling
Some cried tears of joy, others looked downcast and chanted defiantly that the battle was not yet lost as hundreds of protesters outside the U.S. Supreme Court celebrated or ...
Can crypto holders recoup losses in court?
A downturn in cryptocurrency prices and crash of one stablecoin has led some investors to try to recover their losses in US court. Here is how cryptocurrency litigation has fared ...
Ukraine will need at least 10 years to demine its territory, official says
Ukraine will need at least a decade to clear all the mines and explosives from its land and territorial waters once its war with Russia is over, an emergency services ...
U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, ends constitutional right to abortion (Update 3)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion, a decision condemned by President Joe Biden that ...