Biden to host Turkey’s Erdogan at White House on May 9
U.S. President Joe Biden is set to host Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on May 9 in the Turkish leader’s first bilateral visit to Washington since Donald Trump ...
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Ultra-Orthodox Israelis resist push for military service
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties are resisting pressure to lift exemptions of religious students from military duty, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s struggles to preserve his coalition and spread the wartime ...
Queen of Soviet pop Pugacheva likely to be labelled a ‘foreign agent’ in Russia
Russian prosecutors have asked the justice ministry to consider labelling Alla Pugacheva, the queen of Soviet pop music, as a “foreign agent”, a move that would officially designate Russia’s ...
Illness, scandal and discord leave UK royal family looking depleted
King Charles is due to make his first public appearance at a royal event since his cancer diagnosis on Sunday, but the likely absence of son Prince William and the ...
Philippines’ Catholic devotees nailed to crosses to re-enact crucifixion
Catholic devotees were nailed to crosses in sweltering heat north of the Philippines capital Manila on Good Friday in a re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.
Around 20,000 Filipino and foreign ...
Israel strikes Syria hard
Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province early on Friday, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel with its war ...
Kyiv’s top general says Ukraine needs fewer troops than expected
Ukraine’s military will need to mobilise fewer people than initially expected to fend off Russia’s two-year-old invasion, Kyiv’s top general said on Friday.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said ...
Age won’t determine when I retire, says Messi
Lionel Messi will not consider his age as a deciding factor in his retirement plans, the Argentine forward said, adding that he has no clear idea of what he will ...
Alcaraz says Dimitrov made him feel like a 13-year-old in Miami masterclass
World number two Carlos Alcaraz said he felt like a frustrated 13-year-old searching for answers after his crushing defeat by Bulgarian veteran Grigor Dimitrov in the Miami Open quarter-finals on ...
Companies sell their businesses in Russia
Some Western companies have sold their Russian assets or handed them over to local managers to comply with sanctions over the war in Ukraine and respond to threats from the ...
UBS flags commercial real estate downturn as a top risk
UBS (UBSG.S) flagged on Thursday the downturn in commercial real estate markets as one of the “top and emerging risks” facing the Swiss bank, as higher borrowing costs and ...
Baltimore bridge collapse likely to result in multibillion-dollar insurance claims
The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is likely to lead to a multi-billion dollar insurance loss, the chairperson of commercial insurance market Lloyd’s of London (SOLYD....
Nigeria to free 313 suspected Boko Haram insurgents for lack of evidence
Nigeria’s military will free more than 300 people suspected of being part of the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency after a court ruled there was no evidence they committed any crimes, ...
World Court orders Israel to halt Gaza famine; Hamas says ceasefire needed
The World Court on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel, accused by South Africa of genocide in Gaza, to take all necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies to the ...
Zelenskiy tells U.S. House speaker: quick passage of military aid is vital
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during a phone call on Thursday that it was vital that Congress passes a new military aid ...
‘Oppenheimer’ director Christopher Nolan to be given knighthood
British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, fresh from his Oscar victory for historical drama “Oppenheimer”, will receive a knighthood from Britain for services to film.
His wife and film producer Emma Thomas ...
US, Mexico to partner on semiconductor supply chain development
The United States will partner with Mexico to explore semiconductor supply chain opportunities, the State Department said on Thursday, as the Biden administration pushes to reduce reliance on China and ...
Israel has not received everything it has asked for, top US general says
The United States’ top general said on Thursday that Israel had not received every weapon that it has asked for, in part because President Joe Biden’s administration was not ...
Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud
Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in ...
Russia says evidence links concert hall attackers to ‘Ukrainian nationalists’
Russian investigators said on Thursday they had uncovered evidence that the gunmen who killed more than 140 people in an attack on a concert hall near Moscow last week were linked ...
Boat Race rowers told to avoid the water as UK sewage dumping surges
Victorious rowers in Britain’s University Boat Race have been warned not to jump into the River Thames this weekend due to alarming levels of E. coli bacteria, as official ...
Kremlin says Russia working with partners after report on payment delays for oil
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia was working with partners amid unprecedented pressure from the US and European Union after Reuters reported Moscow was experiencing some delays ...
Scotland’s parliament considers assisted dying as poll shows support
Legislation that would that would allow people living in Scotland with a terminal illness to take their own lives was laid before the country’s parliament on Thursday as a ...
Greek PM faces no-confidence vote over 2023 train crash
The government of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces a no-confidence vote on Thursday over the handling of a train crash last year that killed 57 people, after media reports emerged ...