Biden, Putin to meet in Geneva on June 16 amid disputes
U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Geneva on June 16, the White House and the Kremlin said on Tuesday amid sharp disputes over election ...
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EU leaders tussle over emissions target in climate change talks
By Kate Abnett and Sabine Siebold
A meeting of European Union leaders on Tuesday could end without a declaration on how to meet the bloc’s new goal to cut ...
England play for time with 33-man provisional Euro squad
Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold earned a recall in a 33-man provisional England squad for Euro 2020 on Tuesday as manager Gareth Southgate played for time before whittling the numbers down.
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Russia ships remdesivir drug to India as part of humanitarian aid
Russia on Tuesday shipped a generic version of the remdesivir antiviral drug called Remdeform to India as part of its humanitarian aid contributions to the South Asian country which is ...
Court action seeks probe of Trump’s Scottish golf course buys
By Jason Szep and Tom Bergin
The Scottish government is facing a new legal challenge over its February rejection of a motion to investigate former US President Donald Trump’s ...
Pope ousts Vatican youth residence caught up in sex abuse trial
Pope Francis has ordered a residence for altar boys who serve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica to move out of the Vatican, after the home became the subject of ...
Tesla sets up China site to store data locally
US electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it had established a site in China to store car data locally, as automakers come under growing scrutiny over how they ...
EU to finalise huge farm policy overhaul; climate groups cry foul
EU negotiators begin two days of talks on Tuesday on a plan designed to make the bloc’s huge farming subsidies greener and fairer, although campaigners question its environmental impact.
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Private equity’s falling out of love with plastic packaging
A decade ago, private equity couldn’t get enough of plastic packaging. They snapped up companies making bags, films and trays to contain everything from food and fashion to drink ...
Iran official upbeat over nuclear talks, top delegate cautious
Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Tuesday he was optimistic over Tehran reaching an agreement soon at talks with world powers to revive a 2015 nuclear deal, although Iran’s ...
Sherpa says mountain goddess warned him from 26th Everest ascent
A Nepali Sherpa, who has climbed Mount Everest a record 25 times, said on Tuesday he had a dream in which a “mountain goddess” warned him from making another ascent this ...
US agencies examine reports of early Covid-19 infections in Wuhan lab
U.S. intelligence agencies are examining reports that researchers at a Chinese virology laboratory were seriously ill in 2019 a month before the first cases of COVID-19 were reported, according to ...
EU expects more than a billion Covid shots by end of September
The European Union expects to have received more than a billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of September from four drugmakers, a document presented to EU leaders on ...
UK spies violated human rights with bulk intercepts, European rights court rules
Britain’s GCHQ eavesdropping agency breached fundamental human rights by intercepting and harvesting vast amounts of communications, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday.
Revelations by former National ...
Blinken pledges U.S. support to rebuild Gaza, prevent return to war
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on a Middle East mission on Tuesday that Washington would rally support to rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to bolster a ...
Japan’s losses from Covid-19 curbs to dwarf Olympics no-go fallout
Japan stands to lose 1.8 trillion yen ($16 billion) if the Olympics were cancelled, but that would pale in comparison to the economic hit from emergency curbs if the Summer Games turned ...
Reducing human element is turning tennis into ‘esport’
As more tournaments around the world opt for electronic line calling systems instead of human line judges, seven-times Grand Slam champion Mats Wilander says tennis is losing its intrigue and ...
EU’s top court orders Poland to halt lignite mining at Turow
By Agnieszka Barteczko and Kate Abnett
Poland must immediately stop mining lignite coal at the Turow mine operated by state-run PGE , the European Union’s top court said last Friday, ...
Several reported killed in shooting near Columbus, Ohio
At least five people were found dead from a shooting on Monday in West Jefferson, Ohio, a suburb of the state’s capital and largest city, Columbus, according to local ...
Blinken arrives in Israel to try to bolster Gaza ceasefire (Updated)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a Middle East visit in Israel on Tuesday, hoping to bolster its ceasefire with Gaza’s ruling Hamas militants and help speed ...
Belarus faces new sanctions over jetliner ‘state piracy,’ arrest of journalist
Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links on Monday, furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a ...
Italy’s Eurovision rockstar winner did not take drugs – organisers
The lead singer of Italy’s glam rock band Maneskin, which won this year’s Eurovision song contest, has passed a drugs test proving he did not take drugs at ...
Ramos exclusion leaves Real with no players in Spain’s Euro squad
Spain coach Luis Enrique left captain Sergio Ramos out of his squad for Euro 2020 on Monday, meaning that there will be no Real Madrid players representing Spain at a major ...
US Supreme Court rebuffs inmate’s firing squad request
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to let a Missouri death row inmate with significant health problems pursue his effort to face execution by firing squad instead of ...