Australia bank CEOs call for a fix to housing shortage
Australia’s housing shortage may be driving prices higher but is locking out first-time homeowners and migrants needed to fill skills shortages across the country, the CEOs of Australia’s ...
Turkish opposition secures historic victory at local elections (Update)
Turkish opposition party the CHP secured an unlikely and historic victory at the country’s local elections on Sunday.
The social democratic party became the first since the ruling AK ...
Israel central bank says ultra-Orthodox need to join military to help economy
The Bank of Israel on Sunday warned of economic damage if more ultra-Orthodox Jewish men do not join the country’s military, weighing in on a contentious issue that has ...
Pope Francis, in Easter address, calls for Gaza ceasefire
Pope Francis called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all Israeli hostages in an Easter Sunday address that marked the most important day on the Christian ...
Britain’s King Charles attends Easter Sunday service
Britain’s King Charles attended the annual Easter church service in Windsor on Sunday, his first appearance at a public royal event since his cancer diagnosis was announced in February.
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Passport checks for air travellers lifted as Bulgaria and Romania join EU’s Schengen
Airports in Sofia and Bucharest on Sunday removed passport check points for those departing to or arriving from most European Union member states as Bulgaria and Romania partially joined the ...
Erdogan battles key rival in Turkey’s local elections
Turks are voting on Sunday in municipal elections focused on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s bid to reclaim control of Istanbul from rival Ekrem Imamoglu, who aims to reassert the ...
UK fashion retailers ASOS, Boohoo to clarify green credentials claims, says regulator
Top fashion retailers ASOS (ASOS.L), Boohoo (BOOH.L) and George at Asda have signed undertakings to clarify the way they display, describe and promote their environmental credentials, Britain’s ...
British govt official attends Elam event
A serving member of the British government attended an event held by far-right party Elam on Saturday.
Martin Callanan, the country’s Under-secretary of state for energy efficiency and green ...
Three UN observers and a translator wounded in south Lebanon, peacekeeping mission says
Three United Nations observers and a translator were wounded on Saturday when a shell exploded near them as they were carrying out a foot patrol in south Lebanon, the U....
Palestinian teen shot dead during Israeli West Bank raid, Wafa news agency reports
Israeli forces shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday, an incident which the Israeli ...
Foreign diplomats lay flowers in memory of Russia’s concert hall attack victims
Ambassadors from a number of foreign countries took part in a ceremony on Saturday in memory of the victims of this month’s concert hall attack near Moscow which left ...
Dutch nightclub hostage drama ends peacefully with arrest of suspect (Updated)
A hostage drama at a nightclub in the eastern Netherlands ended peacefully after several hours on Saturday with the arrest of a suspect – a man wearing a balaclava mask who ...
Tajikistan says migrants fleeing Russia after concert hall attack
There has been a surge of migrant workers leaving Russia for Tajikistan after a March 22 concert hall attack near Moscow which left dozens dead, according to Tajikistan’s Ministry of ...
Ukraine says Russian drone, missile attacks damage power facilities
By Pavel Polityuk
Massive Russian missile and drone attacks hit thermal and hydro power plants in central and western Ukraine overnight, officials said on Friday, in the latest barrage targeting ...
UK businesses trim hiring and pay plans, Lloyds says
British businesses trimmed their plans for staffing and wage increases this month, according to a survey published on Wednesday that suggested April’s big increase in the minimum wage is ...
Meta oversight board urges company to end ban on Arabic word ‘shaheed’
Meta’s (META.O) oversight board this week called on the company to end its blanket ban on a common usage of the Arabic word “shaheed,” or “martyr” in English, ...
Haley voters, Trump doesn’t want you, new Biden ad says
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is appealing directly to supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who was the last major opponent to Donald Trump before she withdrew ...
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 ...
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 ...