US strains with Israel show as Blinken tours Middle East
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, launching a tour of the Middle East to try to secure a ceasefire in the Gaza war ...
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UN says Russia consolidates control of occupied Ukraine with ‘climate of fear’
Russia is illegally consolidating its control over occupied Ukrainian territory by creating a “climate of fear” with practices such as arbitrary detention, killings and torture, the head of a U....
Dani Alves to be freed on bail after rape conviction
Brazilian football player Dani Alves can be released from jail on a one million euro bail while he appeals his rape conviction, after serving about a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year ...
It’s a boy! Athens zoo welcomes birth of rare pygmy hippo
A rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus has been born in Athens’ Attica Zoological Park for the first time in 10 years, delighting conservationists.
A lack of male pygmy hippos in captivity ...
UK to introduce bill to phase out smoking among young people
The British government will introduce a bill in parliament on Wednesday to fulfill its promise to phase out smoking among young people by banning tobacco sales for future generations.
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Russia says EU frozen assets plan is theft
Russia on Wednesday said a proposal by European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to take 90% of revenues from Russian assets frozen in Europe and transfer them to buy weapons ...
Trump slammed for saying Jews who vote for Democrats hate their religion, Israel
–Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump drew outrage from the White House, Democrats and leaders of Jewish groups for saying Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats hate their religion ...
Oil retreats from multi-month highs ahead of Fed decision
Oil prices edged lower on Wednesday after hitting multi-month highs in the previous session, as investors braced for the US Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy announcement later in the ...
Fed’s rate-cut confidence likely shaken but not yet broken by inflation
Federal Reserve officials left their policy meeting in late January in search of “greater confidence” that inflation was on a sustainable downward path, a notably squishy standard they set for ...
Russia says Olympic parade ban destroys the ideal of the Games
Russia slammed a decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban its athletes from the opening parade of the Paris Olympics in July, calling it a violation of the ideal ...
Wozniacki not feeling the love as Halep returns from doping ban
Fans gave Simona Halep a warm welcome back to tennis at the Miami Open on Tuesday in her first match back from a doping suspension but the Romanian received a ...
Tanker capsizes off coast of Japan, seven deaths confirmed, media reports
A South Korean-flagged chemical tanker has capsized off the coast of Yamaguchi prefecture in western Japan, with seven deaths confirmed, public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday, citing the coastguard.
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Second British royal photograph involving Kate was digitally altered, Reuters says
A second royal photograph issued to the media by Kensington Palace, the office of Prince William and his wife Kate, was digitally altered in eight places, Reuters saidafter an analysis ...
Texas border enforcement law again blocked in legal whiplash
A Republican-backed Texas law that would allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border was blocked again by an appeals court ...
Doctors who visited Gaza speak of ‘atrocities,’ collapsing healthcare
The healthcare system in Gaza has essentially collapsed, Western doctors who visited the Palestinian enclave in recent months told an event at the United Nations on Monday, speaking of “appalling ...
Unilever to spin off ice cream unit, cut 7,500 jobs for cost savings
Unilever (ULVR.L) said on Tuesday it would spin off its ice cream unit, home to popular brands such as Magnum and Ben & Jerry’s, into a standalone business ...
NatWest seeks approval to buy more stock to speed privatisation
NatWest (NWG.L) will seek shareholder approval to buy back up to 15 per cent of its stock from the UK government, it said on Monday, as part of efforts to ...
US Supreme Court lets Texas border enforcement law take effect
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect allowing state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing the US-Mexico border illegally, rejecting a ...
British royals shrug off speculation about Kate and King Charles
A laughing Prince William was back at work on Tuesday, a day after the first footage emerged of his wife Kate since her surgery two months ago which showed the ...
‘Someone will die’: Perkins warns of Enhanced Games safety concerns
Australian Sports Commission boss Kieren Perkins said on Tuesday that athletes’ lives could be in danger if the Enhanced Games is allowed to go ahead.
The Enhanced Games will allow ...
Indonesia fishing village grapples with piles of trash brought in by tides
By Willy Kurniawan
Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn on a beach close to ...
Washington makes new push for Gaza ceasefire to head off famine, Rafah assault
The United States made a fresh push on Tuesday for a ceasefire in Gaza to avert a manmade famine, while pressing its ally Israel to back away from plans for ...
Musk defends his ketamine use as beneficial for investors
CEO Elon Musk said his ketamine prescription was beneficial for Tesla’s investors in a video interview with former CNN anchor Don Lemon posted online.
Musk said the drug helps ...
Navalnaya says Putin is not Russia’s legitimate president
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said on Tuesday that Vladimir Putin was not the legitimate president of Russia and that she would try to convince ...