Gaza violence shows few signs of slowing as global diplomacy ramps up
More than a week of fighting between Israel and Hamas showed few signs of abating on Tuesday despite intense U.S. and global diplomacy to stop the region’s fiercest ...
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Biden to send 20 mln doses of U.S.-authorized vaccines abroad for first time
President Joe Biden will send at least 20 million more Covid-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June, marking the first time the United States is sharing vaccines authorized for ...
U.S. Supreme Court takes up major challenge to abortion rights
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider gutting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide, taking up Mississippi’s bid to revive a Republican-backed state ...
Eurovision song contest prepares for slimmed down COVID version
The Dutch port city of Rotterdam is preparing for a slimmed down version of the Eurovision song contest this weekend with a limited live audience, amid falling but still significant ...
Former Minnesota police officer to make court appearance over shooting Daunte Wright
The white Minnesota police officer charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting the 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop near Minneapolis last month was due to attend a ...
Israel kills militant commander after Palestinian rocket fire, UN General Assembly to meet (updated)
Israel killed a senior Palestinian militant commander in heavy air strikes on Gaza on Monday and Islamist groups renewed rocket attacks on Israeli cities despite mounting international calls for a ...
AT&T to bow out of media through $43 billion deal with Discovery
AT&T, owner of HBO and Warner Bros studios, and Discovery, home to lifestyle TV networks such as HGTV and TLC, said on Monday they will combine their content ...
Can Israel blast Gaza and still make friends in the Gulf?
Scenes of devastation in Gaza are likely to make it harder for Israel to win its biggest diplomatic prize: recognition by Saudi Arabia. But so far, the other rich Gulf ...
Bitcoin hits 3-month low and then rallies on Musk tweets
Bitcoin rallied from a three-month low on Monday in a volatile session that saw investors initially selling and then buying cryptocurrencies in the wake of Tesla boss Elon Musk’s ...
EU agrees partial truce with US over Trump tariffs
The European Commission, which oversees EU trade policy, said on Monday it would suspend a planned hike of retaliatory tariffs for up to six months. These would have added US ...
Saudi Arabia and Dubai ease Covid restrictions to allow tourism to flourish
Saudi Arabia plans to soon reopen to foreign tourists, a senior tourism official said on Monday after the kingdom announced the lifting of quarantine restrictions for certain foreign arrivals.
The ...
Nadal overcomes blip to scythe down Djokovic in Rome final
Rafa Nadal warmed up for the French Open with a battling 7-5 1-6 6-3 win over world number one Novak Djokovic as the Spaniard claimed a record-extending 10th Italian Open ...
Ireland worried UK wants to rewrite Brexit deal
Ireland is increasingly concerned that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to completely rewrite the Northern Ireland section of the Brexit deal, RTE reported on Monday after London said the ...
Free at last to hug and party: UK reopens for business
Friends will hug, pints will be pulled and swathes of the British economy will reopen on Monday giving 65 million people a measure of freedom after the gloom of a four-month ...
Airlines, stop short haul flights, say Germany’s Greens
The German Green party’s candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, plans to cut jet fuel subsidies and abolish short-haul flights if she comes to power, she told weekly Bild am ...
Israel launches dozens of Gaza strikes as fighting enters second week
Israel launched dozens of air strikes on Gaza and Hamas militants in the Palestinian enclave fired rocket barrages at Israeli cities as fighting spilled into a second week on Monday ...
Covid-19 infections, deaths fall sharply after vaccinations – Study
Covid-19 infections in adults of all ages fell by 80 per cent five weeks after a first dose of Pfizer (PFE.N), Moderna (MRNA.O) or AstraZeneca (AZN.L) vaccine, according ...
Keeper Alisson heads Liverpool to last-gasp win
Goalkeeper Alisson Becker scored in the fifth minute of stoppage-time as Liverpool snatched a 2-1 victory at the death against relegated West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Sunday.
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UK PM Johnson: Britain’s Jews should not have to endure ‘shameful racism’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday there was no place for anti-Semitism in society and that British Jews should not have to endure “shameful racism”.
Johnson was responding in ...
Egypt opens Rafah crossing early for Palestinian travellers – sources
Egypt has opened the Rafah border crossing a day earlier than planned to allow the passage from Gaza of students, people needing medical treatment and other humanitarian cases, two sources ...
Police move revellers off streets as Barcelona parties after lockdown easing
By Nacho Doce
Spanish police said they cleared 9,000 revellers from Barcelona’s city centre streets and the nearby beach on Sunday to prevent dangerous overcrowding on the first full weekend ...
Israel air strikes kill 33 Palestinians, rockets fired from Gaza
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Stephen Farrell
Israeli air strikes killed 33 Palestinians, including 13 children, in Gaza early on Sunday, Gaza health officials said, and militants fired rockets into Israel as hostilities ...
Royal Caribbean cancels new cruise line from Israel over unrest
Cruise operator Royal Caribbean is cancelling a new line that had been scheduled to run from Israel to Greece and Cyprus from next month, citing regional security concerns.
The sailings ...
UK to make final lockdown easing decision on June 14 (Updated)
By William James
Ministers will make a decision on June 14 about whether or not to proceed with the final phase of lockdown easing in England, health minister Matt Hancock said ...