Blinken meets Erdogan as forces backed by US, Turkey clash in Syria
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of establishing stability in Syria: clashes in the north of the ...
Genomes reveal timing of Homo sapiens interbreeding with Neanderthals
Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their legacy lives on in the genomes of most people on ...
US security adviser Sullivan says Israel is acting in Syria for its own defence
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan defended Israel’s operations in Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, saying on Thursday it had a right to defend itself ...
Chinese associate of Prince Andrew banned from UK as national security risk
A Chinese businessman, who had forged close links with Prince Andrew and was authorised to act on his behalf to seek investors in China, has been banned from Britain on ...
Israel kills 36 Palestinians in Gaza, targets volatile aid route
Israel killed 13 Palestinians in two airstrikes in Gaza on Thursday that Gaza medics and Hamas said were part of a force protecting humanitarian aid trucks. Israel’s military said they ...
Trump to discuss ending childhood vaccination programmes with RFK Jr.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview published on Thursday said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to run the Department of Health and ...
UK targets 1.5 million new homes in five years
Britain on Thursday outlined details of an overhaul to its planning system to help boost growth and hit a target of 1.5 million new homes in the next five years, including ...
Elon Musk’s net worth tops $400bn, Forbes list shows
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s net worth crossed $400 billion on Thursday, the Forbes real-time billionaires list showed, boosted by a nearly 71% surge in the automaker’s shares this year and ...
Steak or a sandwich for lunch? Britain’s PM, opposition leader at odds
Britain’s prime minister and leader of the main opposition party spar almost daily on everything from immigration, taxation to spending, but on Thursday, the two battled over a new ...
US sees Assad’s fall as chance to destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal ‘once and for all’
The United States sees the fall of Bashar al-Assad as an extraordinary chance to rid Syria “once and for all” of chemical weapons used by his regime to kill or ...
Time magazine names Trump ‘Person of the Year’
Time magazine on Thursday named U.S. President-elect Donald Trump its “Person of the Year,” citing his deep impact on American politics and the country’s role in the world.
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ECB cuts interest rates for fourth time this year
The ECB has cut interest rates by a quarter point.
It also kept the door open to further easing ahead as inflation closes in on its goal and the economy ...
Britain considers new courts to deal with record-high backlog, prison crisis
Britain will consider adding a new intermediate tier to its court system, the justice ministry said on Thursday, as the government scrambles to deal with a record-high backlog of cases ...
Tusk, Macron hold Ukraine talks with eye on troop security guarantee
The leaders of France and Poland will hold talks on Ukraine on Thursday, including the possibility of sending European troops there as a security guarantee in the event of a ...
Biden pardons 39 people, commutes sentences of 1,500 others
Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he was pardoning 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 others who were serving long prison terms.
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Folklore hero or stone cold killer? How America fell for a ‘CEO hunter’
In the days since Luigi Mangione was charged with murder for gunning down a top health insurance executive, more than a thousand donations have poured into an online fundraiser for ...
India, Russia seal $13 billion energy pact
Russia’s state oil firm Rosneft (ROSN.MM) has agreed to supply nearly 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude to Indian private refiner Reliance (RELI.NS) in the biggest ever ...
Gaza war: Ceasefire
Israel, Palestinians explore Gaza truce with US envoy, Egypt, Qatar involved
Israelis and Palestinians are signaling new efforts to forge a ceasefire deal, even a limited one, for the first time in a year that would pause the fighting in Gaza ...
SYRIA
After Assad’s ouster, Syrian rebel leader puts his stamp on the state
Rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa’s Islamist group is stamping its authority on Syria’s state with the same lightning speed that it seized the country, deploying police, installing an interim ...
Large UK insurers to report daily cash positions during crises under new proposals
Large British life insurers would need to report their liquidity positions daily during market crises under new rules proposed by the Prudential Regulation Authority, after it identified information gaps during ...
Trump’s Nasa pick says his future SpaceX missions “a question mark”
US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Nasa administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said on Wednesday that the private astronaut missions he has planned with Elon Musk’s SpaceX “may ...
No Iranian drone ‘mothership’ off the United States launching drones, Pentagon says
The Pentagon said on Wednesday that there was no evidence that drones that had been spotted over New Jersey were from a foreign entity or adversary and dismissed a claim ...
Brazil’s Lula to undergo new procedure to prevent further brain bleeding, local media says
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo a new medical procedure scheduled for Thursday in order to prevent further bleeding in his brain, newspaper Folha de S. ...
Malibu wildfire rages on, destroys several structures
Firefighters made some progress in containing a wildfire in the beach community of Malibu, California, on Wednesday, but it continued to threaten several structures, force residents to flee and close ...