Saudi Arabia inflation remains at 1.6 per cent in May
Saudi Arabia’s annual inflation rate remained at 1.6 per cent for the third month running in May, government data showed on Sunday, with higher housing rents still the main driver.
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Asking prices for UK houses stagnate in June, Rightmove says
Asking prices for British homes coming to the market were flat this month, adding to signs of a recent cooling off in the housing market upswing, a survey from property ...
Standard Chartered loses bid to cut US sanctions breach claims from UK lawsuit
Standard Chartered on Monday lost a bid to cut from a London lawsuit allegations that it broke US sanctions against Iran in a more widespread way than it has previously ...
Global gasoline refining margins slump on slow summer driving season
Oil refiners are making less money selling their gasoline as demand during the peak summer driving season has fallen short of what they expected when many of them boosted production.
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EURO 2024
France battle past Austria but Mbappe suffers broken nose
France delivered a 100th victory for manager Didier Deschamps as they edged a tenacious Austria side 1-0 in their opening Group D match at Euro 2024 on Monday but it came ...
Russia sets closed espionage trial for US reporter Gershkovich
Russia’s espionage trial of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who denies charges of collecting secrets for the U.S. CIA, will be held behind closed doors, the ...
US-UK forces launch strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah and Kamaran Island, Houthi-run TV says
U.S. and British forces have carried out at least six airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah International Airport and four strikes on Kamaran Island near the port of Salif off ...
Campaigning takes off in France for snap election in two weeks
Campaigning kicked off on Monday for France’s snap parliamentary election, which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win ahead of a left-wing alliance, with President Emmanuel Macron’...
Slovakia stun wasteful Belgium as VAR twice denies Lukaku
Ivan Schranz scored Slovakia’s quickest goal at a major tournament to take his side to a gritty upset 1-0 victory over wasteful Belgium in European Championship Group E on ...
Romania stun Ukraine with first Euro win in 24 years
Romania turned in a high-octane performance to win their first European Championship match in 24 years with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Ukraine in their Euro 2024 Group E opener on Monday.
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UK political parties continue to woo Brits abroad ahead of election
British political parties are continuing to attempt to win over British citizens abroad ahead of the country’s general election, which will take place on July 4.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir ...
Farage promises tighter borders and tax cuts in election ‘contract’
Nigel Farage, whose entry into the election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s faint hopes of victory, set out his policy plans on Monday, describing them as the first ...
Another tourist dead in Greece, others missing as heat toll rises
A 55-year-old American has been found dead on the Greek island of Mathraki, the police said on Monday, the third tourist death in a week following a period of unusually ...
Polls point to ‘electoral extinction’ for Sunak’s Conservatives
Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced “electoral extinction” ...
Kremlin derides outcome of Ukraine talks held without Russia
Russia said on Monday that a Swiss-hosted conference on the Ukraine war had produced negligible results and showed the futility of holding talks without Moscow.
The Kremlin was commenting on ...
FRENCH ELECTIONS
Campaigning kicks off in France for snap election, Le Pen’s far right party holds comfortable lead
Campaigning kicked off in France on Monday for a snap parliamentary election which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win, with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance coming ...
Netanyahu disbands his inner war cabinet, Israeli official says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move that came after the departure from government of ...
Railway collision in eastern India kills 15, injures several
A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India’s West Bengal state on Monday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in ...
NATO in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby, Kremlin accuses alliance of escalation
The Kremlin said on Monday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s remarks about talks on deploying more nuclear weapons were an escalation.
NATO is in talks to deploy more ...
Soldiers tell players to ‘show the spirit of Ukraine’
Soldiers on the frontlines are asking the country’s soccer team to show ‘the spirit of Ukraine’ at Euro 2024, said manager Serhiy Rebrov, adding that players have felt an extra ...
DeChambeau wins US Open as McIlroy’s major misery continues
Bryson DeChambeau came out on top in a dramatic final round, back nine battle with Rory McIlroy to win the U.S. Open by one shot on Sunday as the ...
Lies, damned lies and dodgy data: Voting in South Africa
From deepfake Donald Trumps endorsing key contenders, to claims the vote was rigged, South Africa is awash with online disinformation as political players thrash out a coalition deal after an ...
Ukraine summit sees hard road to peace as way forward uncertain
Western powers and their allies at a summit in Switzerland denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Sunday, but they failed to persuade major non-aligned states to join their final ...
How Apple used Google’s help to train its AI models
Last week, CEO Tim Cook’s Apple (AAPL.O) announced a splashy deal with OpenAI to include its powerful artificial intelligence model as a part of its voice assistant, Siri.
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