Sunak ready to sign new Rwanda asylum deal after Supreme Court defeat
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would sign a new treaty with Rwanda to resurrect his plans to send asylum seekers to the East African country after ...
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Alcaraz eases to win as ranting Rublev self-destructs
Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz got back on track at the ATP Finals with victory over a tormented Andrey Rublev on Wednesday, easing to a 7-5 6-2 to revive his hopes ...
Israeli troops scour Gaza’s Al Shifa hospital for Hamas fighters, arms
Israeli troops entered Gaza’s biggest hospital on Wednesday and searched its rooms and basement, witnesses said, in pursuit of Palestinian Hamas militants, an operation that has stoked global alarm ...
Cocaine still Colombia drug gangs’ top export despite fentanyl’s ascendancy
Rising use, low production costs and logistical advantages could eventually lead drug producers to focus on fentanyl instead of cocaine, a high-ranking Colombian police official said, but for now cocaine ...
France issues arrest warrant for Syria’s President Assad
French judges have issued arrest warrants for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two other senior officials over the use of banned chemical weapons against civilians ...
Biden says Trump echoed Nazis with use of word ‘vermin’
US President Joe Biden has attacked former President Donald Trump for using the word “vermin” to refer to his political enemies, saying it echoed the language of Nazi Germany.
At ...
Russia concedes Ukrainian troops have crossed Dnipro River in Kherson region
Russia conceded for the first time on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had crossed the vast River Dnipro into occupied areas of Kherson region, but said it had sent in more ...
Turkey’s Erdogan calls Israel ‘terror state’, slams West
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Israel was a “terror state” committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza, sharpening his repeated criticism of Israeli leaders and their ...
Siemens Energy reviews wind unit set-up after $5 billion loss
Siemens Energy (ENR1n.DE) is reviewing the structure of Siemens Gamesa, it said on Wednesday, in a bid to return to profit the struggling wind division that caused a 4.6 ...
WHO loses contact with Gaza hospital staff after raid
The head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday it had lost touch with health personnel at Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza after Israeli forces began raiding the facility.
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Sinner digs deep to down Djokovic in ATP Finals cracker
Novak Djokovic’s winning streak was halted at 19 matches as home favourite Jannik Sinner was roared to a superb 7-5 6-7(5) 7-6(2) victory by a partisan ATP Finals crowd in ...
Liverpool’s Diaz meets father first time since kidnapping
Liverpool and Colombia winger Luis Diaz has reunited with his father for the first time since the latter’s kidnapping ordeal, the Colombian football federation said on Tuesday.
Luis Manuel ...
German drug regulator considering export ban on Ozempic
The head of Germany’s drug regulator BfArM is considering an export ban on Novo Nordisk’s (NOVOb.CO) diabetes drug Ozempic, which is in high demand for its weight-loss ...
UK inflation slows sharply, boosting BoE and PM Sunak
British inflation cooled by more than expected in October as household energy prices dropped from a year ago while stubbornly high services sector price growth also eased, offering some relief ...
UN Security Council calls for pauses in Gaza fighting for aid
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday called for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses in fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip for a “sufficient number ...
Biden, Xi meet hoping to ease friction between the two adversarial superpowers
U.S. President Joe Biden meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the first time in a year on Wednesday, for talks that may ease friction between the adversarial superpowers on ...
Global EV sales stay strong
Electric-vehicle sales are seeing continued strength globally with China reporting record monthly sales in October despite the end of subsidies, according to market research firm Rho Motion.
China ended an 11...
German cartel office opens probe into Coca-Cola over pricing practices
The German cartel office said on Tuesday it opened an investigation into Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Deutschland over pricing practices in the country.
“There are indications that Coca-Cola could competitively hinder ...
Cryptoverse: Bitcoin miners make money ahead of ‘halving’
Bitcoin miners are making hay while the sun shines.
The business has been yanked out of the doldrums by the cryptocurrency’s recent rally – and now mining companies are racing ...
White House says it has evidence Hamas using Al Shifa hospital to run military actions
The White House on Tuesday said it had its own intelligence that Hamas was using Gaza’s largest hospital Al Shifa to run its military operations, and probably to store ...
US set to take action to win China’s cooperation on fentanyl
U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is set to remove restrictions on China’s Institute of Forensic Science in a bid to convince Bejing to step up cooperation to ...
Demonstrators in Washington back Israel, denounce antisemitism
Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Washington on Tuesday for a “March for Israel” to show solidarity with Israel in its war with Hamas and condemn rising antisemitism.
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Dutch government scraps plan to cap flights at Schiphol next summer
Facing pressure from the U.S. government and the European Union, the Dutch government on Tuesday gave up on a plan to cap the maximum number of flights at Amsterdam’...
Sacked minister savages UK’s Sunak as failing and weak (Updated)
Sacked British minister Suella Braverman launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday, savaging his record and accusing him of betraying both her and the British people.
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