Some 30,000 Ukrainian refugees reach France
Some 30,000 Ukrainian refugees have arrived in France, with half of them travelling through the country to other places such as Spain, French housing minister Emmanuelle Wargon said Sunday.
Wargon told ...
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UK may provide more help to households on energy bills -Sunday Times
The British government could provide another multi-billion pound package to help shield households from a further jump in energy bills later this year after its latest budget was criticised for ...
U.S. envoy not confident Iran nuclear deal is imminent (Update 2)
U.S. Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said on Sunday he was not confident that a nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran was imminent, dampening expectations after 11 months ...
War in Ukraine causes German business morale to collapse
German business morale plummeted in March as companies worried about rising energy prices, driver shortages and the stability of supply chainsin the wake of the war in Ukraine,pointing to ...
Quake of magnitude 5.8 strikes Ecuador coast, damaging buildings Source: Reuters
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck near the coastal region of Ecuador late on Saturday, damaging buildings and striking down light poles on highways.
The quake was at a depth of 40 ...
Hard landing: Lessors lose hope of getting Russian planes back
As the clock runs down to Monday’s sanctions deadline for Russian airlines to hand back more than 400 leased planes worth almost $10 billion, foreign lessors are fast losing hope that ...
Elon Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to build a new social media platform
Tesla Inc TSLA.O Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on Saturday.
Musk was ...
Could the US ship more LNG to Europe?
The United States, the world’s top natural gas producer, wants to send more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe to help its allies break their dependence on Russian gas ...
Russian forces are firing at Kharkiv’s nuclear research facility – Ukrainian parliament
Russian forces are firing at a nuclear research facility in the city of Kharkiv, the Ukrainian parliament said in a Twitter post on Saturday.
“It is currently impossible to estimate ...
Turkey’s current account deficit seen rising to 4 per cent of GDP this year
Turkey’s current account deficit is expected to rise to $32 billion or 4.0 per cent of GDP this year, more than the 2.5 per cent previously forecast, Goldman Sachs said, citing rising ...
Biden calls Putin a ‘butcher’, Russian forces take Chernobyl workers’ town (Update 6)
US President Joe Biden, visiting Nato ally Poland on Saturday, called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher”.
Biden said he was not sure Russia was changing its strategy in Ukraine ...
Turkey defuses mine after Russia warns of strays from Ukraine ports
Turkey’s military deactivated a mine on Saturday that had drifted in from the Black Sea, setting off a loud explosion north of Istanbul, days after Russia warned several of ...
Lviv mayor reports further strike after rockets hit outskirts of western Ukrainian city (Update 2)
The mayor of Lviv said another rocket had hit the city in western Ukraine on Saturday, not long after two rockets struck its outskirts in what appeared to be the ...
Tunisia says it has dismantled 150 militant cells in past 6 months
Tunisian police forces have dismantled about 150 militant cells in the past six months, a spokesman for the National Guard said on Saturday.
He added that some of the foreign militants ...
Xavi can stay in Barcelona as long as he wants, says Laporta
Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez can remain at the LaLiga side for as long as he wants following his superb start in the job, club president Joan Laporta said, adding that ...
Japan’s Kishida sees growing chance of Russia using nuclear weapons
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday the prospect of Russia using nuclear weapons was “increasingly real”, welcoming a visit by the U.S. ambassador to Hiroshima, the ...
Bologna coach Mihajlovic to undergo treatment for leukaemia
Bologna coach Sinisa Mihajlovic will return to hospital to undergo another round of treatment for leukaemia after scans showed a risk of a relapse, the Serbian said on Saturday.
The 53...
Iraq parliament fails to elect new state president over lack of quorum
Iraq’s parliament failed again on Saturday to vote for a president after Iran-backed groups boycotted the session, in a setback to an alliance led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr which ...
UK retail sales and consumer confidence fall as inflation mounts
Britons cut back on their shopping in February and consumer confidence levels tumbled this month as accelerating inflation cast a shadow over the world’s fifth-biggest economy, data released on ...
Biden meets top Ukrainian officials in Poland (Update 2)
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with top Ukrainian government officials in Warsaw on Saturday during his visit to Poland to show support for the NATO alliance’s eastern flank ...
Costs of going unvaccinated in America are mounting for workers and companies
Nearly a year after COVID vaccines became freely available in the US., one fourth of American adults remain unvaccinated, and a picture of the economic cost of vaccine hesitancy is ...
Saudi Grand Prix to go ahead despite Houthi attacks say organisers
Formula One’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will go ahead after teams received safety assurances and drivers met for more than four hours following attacks on an oil facility near ...
Western sanctions won’t sway Kremlin, says Russia’s former president Medvedev
It is “foolish” to believe that Western sanctions against Russian businesses could have any effect on the Moscow government, Russian ex-president and deputy head of security council Dmitry Medvedev was ...
Four weeks of war scar Russia’s economy
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 sparked sweeping sanctions that ripped the country out of the global financial fabric and sent its economy reeling.
A month on, Russia’s ...