Trump signs order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America
U.S. President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on Thursday, escalating a feud with Canada that has already spawned tariffs on tens of billions of dollars in cross-border ...
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Holders PSG to meet Barca, Man City as Champions League draw throws up marquee ties
Champions League holders Paris St Germain will take on Barcelona and Manchester City in this season’s league phase, while record 15-time champions Real Madrid will face Inter Milan and ...
Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino
UEFA has asked a U.S. federal court for permission to obtain testimony and documents from FIFA entities in Florida for use in a planned criminal complaint in Switzerland against ...
Ratko Mladic, former general convicted of Bosnia genocide, dies
Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, ...
Trial for accused mastermind of 9/11 attacks set for June 2028
A U.S. Air Force judge has ordered Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, and three co-defendants to go on trial before ...
Qatar PM visits Tehran to pursue mediation efforts
Qatar’s prime minister visited Tehran on Thursday in a bid to relaunch diplomacy after the U.S. and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure, ...
Russia says it could strike UK military targets
Russia warned on Thursday that it could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine in response to Ukrainian attacks on targets inside Russia using long-range British cruise missiles.
The ...
Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm
Meta’s move to restrict teenagers’ use of social media in the U.S. shows companies have tools to better protect young people online, Australian officials said on Thursday, as ...
Spurs win big and then draw Liverpool in League Cup
Tottenham Hotspur were rewarded with an away trip to Liverpool in the third round of the League Cup after thrashing Charlton Athletic 5-1 on Wednesday.
The clash was one of ...
Mbappe hat-trick powers Real Madrid past Sociedad on Mourinho’s Bernabeu return
Kylian Mbappe scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad 4-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday in their first home match of the LaLiga season.
Mbappe put Madrid ...
Wawrinka handed US Open wildcard after fan outcry
Swiss Stan Wawrinka has been handed a wildcard entry to the U.S. Open men’s singles draw, organisers said on Wednesday, after several days of outcry from fans over ...
Russia launches massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine
Russia launched missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight on Thursday, with the capital Kyiv and other cities coming under a massive attack, Ukrainian authorities said.
Ukraine’s air force said ...
Indonesia tightens security as students rally one year after deadly protests
Indonesia has boosted security around parliament in the capital Jakarta and in other major cities as demonstrators gathered for rallies on Thursday, a year after a wave of violent anti-government ...
Glacier collapse may have triggered deadly Nepal flash flood, experts say
A deadly flash flood near Nepal’s border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the ...
Qatar PM to visit Tehran to pursue mediation efforts
Qatar’s prime minister will visit Tehran on Thursday in a bid to relaunch diplomacy after the US and Iran traded recriminations over Washington’s promise to increase economic pressure ...
Burnham’s summer reprieve gives way to a reckoning over his spending plans
After enjoying a summer of well-received measures giving “people some breathing space now”, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces a much greater test when parliament resumes next week – how to ...
Pentagon’s Nato review preparing troop options for Hegseth by November 6
A Pentagon review of US troop deployments in Europe will create at least four sets of options for Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth by November 6, well ahead of a December deadline ...
Nearly 1,500 missing in Nepal and China after devastating Himalaya flood
Nearly 1,500 people including at least 800 foreigners are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet, authorities said on Thursday, after a wall of mud and rock collapsed into a Himalayan river, ...
Hundreds missing after devastating flood hits Nepal-Tibet border
A huge wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China’s Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side ...
Tim Curry, actor famed for ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ dead at 80
Tim Curry, the baritone-voiced British actor who pranced to movie fame as a singing, lingerie-clad “sweet transvestite” in the 1975 cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” has died at the ...
Prince Harry and family back in UK as they return from US
Prince Harry and his family arrived back in Britain on Wednesday, the BBC reported, days after it was revealed the couple were relocating six years after quitting royal duties and ...
Ukrainian commander sped through the ‘kill zone’ to save wounded troops
Seeing two wounded fighters stranded on the battlefield – one of them still strapped to a land drone immobilized by a Russian strike – Ukrainian commander Vladyslav Polskyi knew he had to ...
Meta agrees to pay up to $18bn to settle claims its platforms harm children
Meta Platforms agreed to pay a maximum $16.68 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to resolve claims by states across the U.S. that the company designed those ...
Iran and Oman still working on Strait of Hormuz accord
Iran and Oman are still working on the details of an agreement on the Strait of Hormuz, a senior Iranian source said on Wednesday, after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said ...