US to make another push to defuse conflicts in Middle East
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make another push for a ceasefire when he heads to the Middle East on Monday, the State Department said, seeking to kickstart ...
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US ELECTION
Hollywood stars hit the road to push vote for Harris
Actor Jennifer Garner had a warning for a crowd of “Moms for Harris” gathered at a tearoom in Tucson, Arizona: Be prepared to see more Hollywood stars visiting your state ...
Greece recovers two dead migrants off Samos island
Greece has recovered the bodies of two migrants – a man and a woman – who had been missing after a boat sank off the island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, ...
Pentagon chief visits Ukraine in show of support
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine on Monday, in a show of solidarity with Kyiv just two weeks ahead of a U.S. presidential election that is casting ...
US envoy to hold ceasefire talks in Lebanon; Israel targets Hezbollah’s finances
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein held talks with Lebanese officials in Beirut on Monday on conditions for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah after Israel struck branches across Lebanon of ...
Israel blows up schools and shelters for displaced people in Gaza’s Jabalia district
Israeli forces blew up homes and besieged schools and shelters for displaced people on Monday as they deepened their operations in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and medics ...
war in ukraine
South Korea summons Russian envoy to protest N. Korea’s troop dispatch to Ukraine, Kremlin avoids direct answer
South Korea’s foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Seoul to protest on Monday over what it has called the dispatch of North Korean troops to Russia for deployment ...
Six-time Olympic champion Hoy reveals he has terminal cancer
Britain’s six-time Olympic track cycling champion Chris Hoy has revealed he has “two to four years” to live after he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer which metastasised to ...
IMF, World Bank meet amid economic uncertainty and political turmoil
Global finance chiefs will gather in Washington this week amid intense uncertainty over wars in the Middle East and Europe, a flagging Chinese economy and worries that a coin-toss US ...
Oil prices rise slightly after last week’s 7 per cent decline
Oil prices edged up in Asian trading on Monday, following a more than 7 per cent drop last week on worries about demand in China, the world’s top oil importer, ...
Catches win matches – maybe
The matches played in the BAOFinancial Autumn 2024 T20 Cup presented by HurryCurry on Sunday put to the test the old adage that catches win matches. Whilst this appeared to be ...
Leclerc says F1 title is an ‘optimistic’ goal for Ferrari
Ferrari last won a Formula One title in 2008 but Sunday’s one-two win in the U.S. Grand Prix put the constructors’ championship firmly in their sights.
Race winner Charles ...
Blackout
Cuba grid collapses again raising doubts about a quick fix
Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, raising fresh doubts about a quick fix on an island already suffering from severe shortages of ...
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Gulen, the powerful cleric accused of orchestrating a Turkish coup, dies
The U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup ...
Russia pounds Kyiv with drones for a second night in a row
Russia launched several waves of drones targeting Kyiv for the second night in a row, damaging residential buildings and injuring at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said early on Monday.
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Moldova’s EU referendum goes to wire after Sandu decries vote meddling
A knife-edge margin of 50.09% voted “yes” in Moldova’s pivotal referendum on joining the European Union, partial results showed on Monday, after President Maia Sandu said Sunday’s twin votes ...
AUSTRALIA
King Charles greets happy crowds, a protesting MP and one alpaca on visit to Canberra
Among the thousand plus well-wishers gathered to greet King Charles and Queen Camilla at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Monday was Hephner, a nine-year old alpaca in a ...
Harris v Trump
Trump hands out french fries in Pennsylvania, Harris visits Georgia churches in swing-state appeals
With the U.S. presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump, visited another kind of American ...
Lebanese flee as blasts hit Beirut, Israel warns of strikes on Hezbollah finance arm
Hundreds of Beirut residents fled their homes late on Sunday with multiple explosions heard across the Lebanese capital, as Israel prepared to attack sites linked to the financial operations of ...
Israel gives the US its demands for ending war in Lebanon, Axios reports
Israel gave the United States a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon, Axios reported on Sunday, citing two U.S. ...
Stellantis CEO Tavares defends record in Paris over US crisis
Stellantis (STLAM.MI) CEO Carlos Tavares alternated between defiance and contrition about the company’s turnaround plans during a packed schedule of public events at the Paris auto show following ...
ECB prepares for swift rate cuts as inflation nears target
Euro zone inflation could ease more quickly than previously thought and economic growth is also likely to remain weak, according to ECB policymakers and fresh surveys, reinforcing the case for ...
P&G posts surprise sales drop on slowing demand for personal care products
Tide maker Procter & Gamble (PG.N) reported a surprise drop in quarterly sales for the second time in a row, as price-conscious consumers in its major markets, the United ...
Global EV sales up 30.5 per cent in September
Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose by an annual 30.5 per cent in September, as China surpassed its record numbers recorded in August and Europe resumed growth, ...