Alcaraz steamrolls Tsitsipas to book Sinner semi at French Open
Carlos Alcaraz halted a mid-match fightback by ninth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas to secure a 6-3 7-6(3) 6-4 win on Tuesday and set up a blockbuster French Open semi-final with incoming ...
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Lawmakers brawl in Turkish parliament over pro-Kurdish mayor’s detention
Lawmakers from Turkey’s ruling AK Party and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party brawled in parliament’s general assembly on Tuesday over the detention and replacement of a DEM Party mayor ...
Israel nears decision on Lebanon border offensive, army chief says
Israel is ready for an offensive along the northern border with Lebanon and is nearing a decision, the chief of staff said on Tuesday, as the Hezbollah movement said it ...
US, partners making progress on ways to use frozen Russian assets, Treasury official says
The United States and its G7 partners are making progress on finding ways to provide larger amounts of urgently needed funds to Ukraine by tapping the value of profits earned ...
Oil drops more than $1/bbl as OPEC+ decision spotlights shaky demand
Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel on Tuesday on scepticism about an OPEC+ decision at the weekend to boost supply later this year into a global market where demand ...
Djokovic pulls out of French Open with knee injury
Defending champion Novak Djokovic pulled out of the French Open ahead of his quarter-final due to a knee injury sustained in his marathon fourth-round win over Francisco Cerundolo, organisers said ...
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India vote count shows Modi alliance winning surprisingly narrow majority
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was headed for a narrow majority as vote-counting in the general election neared completion on Tuesday, with its tally well short of an ...
Hunter Biden criminal trial jury told ‘no one is above the law’
Hunter Biden’scriminal trial on gun charges kicked off on Tuesday witha government lawyer telling jurors that President Joe Biden’s son was being prosecuted for lying on a form ...
Biden says Netanyahu could be prolonging Gaza war for political aims
U.S. President Joe Biden said Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu may be stalling on ending the war in Gaza for political reasons, according to an interview with Time magazine released ...
Innovative Chileans use discarded hair to clean up coasts and waterways
By Rodrigo Gutierrez
Luisana Gil, a dog groomer in Santiago, Chile, has a lot of hair on her hands – she throws away bags and bags of her clients’ hair, which ...
UK D-Day veteran says on 80th anniversary: ‘We were making history’
Royal Navy veteran Fred Ayton was told he was “making history” when he set off across the English Channel 80 years ago on the eve of D-Day, a momentous point in ...
Baby girl found in London related to two other abandoned siblings
A baby girl found earlier this year in a shopping bag in east London is the third child to have been abandoned by the same parents in similar circumstances over ...
European Elections
EU struggles to counter Russian election disinformation
The story peddled recurring pro-Kremlin narratives of Warsaw holding aggressive militaristic intentions and of democratic failings in Poland and the wider EU, the team known as Stratcom said.
It was ...
Gauff overcomes Jabeur to reach French Open semis
American Coco Gauff beat Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 4-6 6-2 6-3 on Tuesday to become the first player to reach the French Open semi-finals.
Gauff will potentially meet top seed ...
80 years on, UK D-Day veterans set sail for Normandy once again
– Two dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth, England, on Tuesday, bound for the beaches of Normandy where 80 years ago this week ...
Kremlin: Swiss summit on Ukraine is waste of time without Russia
The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was understandable that some countries were declining to take part in a Swiss-hosted peace summit on Ukraine this month because the gathering lacked clear ...
Eze, Palmer make strong cases for inclusion in Southgate’s Euro squad
England manager Gareth Southgate was pleased with several new faces making a solid case for inclusion in his Euro 2024 squad in Monday’s 3-0 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina, though ...
UK Elections
UK’s Labour set for record general election win, poll says
Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is set for its biggest ever victory in next month’s general election, winning by a larger margin than in 1997 under former prime minister ...
Confident Alcaraz relishing rematch with Tsitsipas
Carlos Alcaraz’s hopes of a maiden French Open title will face a stern test when he faces Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarter-finals on Tuesday, but the Spaniard will be ...
Four more Israeli hostages died in Gaza captivity, Israel’s military says
The Israeli military said another four Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7 had died in captivity and that their bodies are being held by the Palestinian Islamist group.
The ...
Eurozone manufacturing sees potential signs of recovery in May
The long-running downturn in eurozone manufacturing may have turned a corner last month, according to a survey which showed new orders declined at their slowest pace in two years, leading ...
Turkish manufacturing contracts further in May, PMI shows
Turkish factory activity contracted again in May as a slowdown in demand caused firms to scale back production and employment, a survey showed on Monday.
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) ...
Djokovic shrugs off injury to beat Cerundolo in another French Open epic
Defending champion Novak Djokovic produced a superhuman effort to subdue Argentine Francisco Cerundolo 6-1 5-7 3-6 7-5 6-3 on Monday and reach the quarter-finals of the French Open, as the ...
Real Madrid sign Mbappe on free transfer
France forward Kylian Mbappe has joined Real Madrid as a free agent on a five-year contract, the LaLiga club said on Monday, ending a transfer saga that rumbled on for ...