UK weighs benefit cuts to tackle youth unemployment
Faisa Omar applied for more than 500 jobs in the UK and got nowhere — a slog she likened to “shouting into the void”. It took a 10-week training course, tailored to ...
Iran says tanker carrying LNG hit mine, suffered explosion in Hormuz
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas struck a naval mine and suffered an explosion in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while using what ...
Dutch government faces collapse over wealth tax row
Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten will try to save his minority government from collapse in a meeting with coalition partners on Friday, after a heated debate over wealth taxes exposed ...
EU seeks to close AI gap with US and China
European Union leaders gather in Dublin on Friday for their first ever summit on artificial intelligence, to debate how the bloc can catch up with the United States and China ...
FBI: North Korean hackers steal more than $400 million using video images
North Korean state-backed hackers have stolen more than $400 million in cryptocurrency over the past 18 months using surreptitiously recorded images of people which are then used to target their contacts, the ...
US handled $12 billion of Venezuela’s oil revenues, report says
The United States handled more than $12 billion of Venezuela’s oil revenues in the first nine months of this year, according to a report made public by the State Department ...
Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for businesses and governments
Microsoft MSFT.O services such as Outlook and Teams were disrupted for about 10 hours on Thursday as the tech giant struggled to fix issues with some servers, hitting businesses and ...
Yemen’s Houthis say they attacked pumping station on Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Thursday they had attacked a pumping station on the Saudi East-West oil pipeline, an oil facility in the Saudi Red Sea city of Yanbu, ...
US starts 2027 fiscal year with record October budget deficit of $404 billion
The US government started the 2027 fiscal year with a $404 billion budget deficit for October, a record for the month and $120 billion, or 42%, higher than the year-earlier period, as receipts shrank ...
Trump says US does not need Iran deal, directs Vance to focus on domestic corruption
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the US does not need a deal with Iran and directed Vice President JD Vance, who has played a role in efforts to resolve ...
Crowds fill streets for Pope Leo’s emotional return to Peru
Crowds flooded Lima’s streets on Thursday as Pope Leo, the first Peruvian citizen to lead the Catholic Church, opened the second day of an emotional visit home that has ...
One person dead, multiple wounded in active shooting in Washington, DC
An active shooter was barricaded inside a Washington, DC, building on Thursday morning, police said, drawing large numbers of officers in tactical gear to the area. At least one person ...
World leaders set out clashing priorities as COP31 turns to negotiations
World leaders have set out competing positions and made clashing demands in two days of intense speech-making at the COP31 climate change talks in Turkey, leaving negotiators with a tough ...
Eight dead after Brooklyn apartment building collapses
Eight people were killed when an apartment building in Brooklyn collapsed into a neighboring construction site on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
At least 17 people, including 3 firefighters ...
Hungary eases abortion rules in women’s rights overhaul
Hungary’s government will ease access to emergency contraception and roll back a controversial abortion rule as part of a broader package of women’s rights reforms, Prime Minister Peter ...
Iranian men found guilty in UK of assisting Iranian intelligence
Two Iranian men were found guilty on Thursday of spying on dissident journalists in Britain on behalf of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, a case British police said reflected increasing activity ...
Wizz Air chief calls for Europe-wide coordination on bomb threats
Europe needs a more harmonised approach to security and a body to lead it against “hybrid warfare” following a recent series of bomb threats, the CEO of Hungarian budget airline ...
Car bomb kills Russian soldier near St Petersburg in latest targeted assassination
A Russian military serviceman was killed after the car he was driving was blown up in the Pushkinsky District of St Petersburg, investigators said in Thursday.
“Investigative authorities have opened ...
F1 legend Hamilton urges Israel to let Gaza aid in after Rafah visit
Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton said on Wednesday that Israel must allow aid trucks into Gaza, a day after he visited the Rafah border crossing in Egypt.
Hamilton, a seven-times ...
Bomb alert temporarily halts trains at Calais station, causing Eurostar delays
A bomb alert temporarily disrupted train services at Calais-Fréthun station in northern France on Thursday morning, affecting both domestic and international rail travel.
Train services resumed later on Thursday ...
Russian strikes kill woman in Kyiv, cause power outages across Ukraine
Russian overnight strikes killed a woman and injured five people in Kyiv and left nine Ukrainian regions without power on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said, while Moscow said it had targeted ...
US soldier rebukes Hegseth delegation over laughter at military tomb
A US Army sentinel guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier appeared to rebuke Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s delegation on Wednesday after laughter could be heard as they climbed ...
Democrat Colom ends 44-year drought, makes Black history in Mississippi
Democratic challenger Scott Colom defeated incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in the Mississippi election for the US Senate, media projected on Wednesday, making him the Southern state’s first Black senator ...
Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills six, including surgeon
An Israeli airstrike on a building at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza killed at least six people, including a surgeon, and wounded 20 others early on Thursday, a spokesman for Gaza’...
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