Russia invites Taliban to major economic forum
Russia has invited Afghanistan’s Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to remove a ban on the Islamist movement, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as ...
Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp draws global condemnation
An Israeli airstrike triggered a massive blaze killing 45 people in a tent camp in the Gaza city of Rafah, officials said on Monday, prompting an outcry from global leaders who ...
More than 2,000 could be buried in Papua New Guinea landslide
More than 2,000 people could be buried alive by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea last week, the government said on Monday, as treacherous terrain and the difficulty of getting ...
The new migration and asylum pact: smoke and mirrors?
By Luigi Scazzieri
In April this year, the European Parliament agreed to a reform of the Union’s rulebook on migration and asylum, approving the different legislative files that make ...
Buildings leap to the future with new logbooks
Digital records can help make European homes and offices greener and healthier.
By Anthony King
In the southern Italian town of Ruvo di Puglia, a school that opened in 1924 is ...
Billionaire urges Russian firms to build alternative to SAP software
Billionaire Alexey Mordashov has proposed creating a Russian consortium to invest billions in developing an alternative to the widely-used business software made by Germany’s SAP, which curtailed its operations ...
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Knife attacker injures three in metro in Lyon, France
Three people were injured in a knife attack in the metro in the French city of Lyon on Sunday, authorities said.
A suspect was arrested, the local prefecture and a ...
Twelve injured as Qatar Airways Dublin flight hits turbulence, airport says
Twelve people travelling on a Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Ireland were injured during a bout of turbulence, Dublin Airport said on Sunday, adding that the plane landed safely ...
Hamas fires missiles at Tel Aviv, prompting first sirens in months
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Emily Rose
Hamas said it launched missiles at Tel Aviv on Sunday, prompting sirens to sound in the Israeli city for the first time in four ...
Lagging in polls, UK Conservatives pitch national service at 18
By Andy Bruce
Britain’s Conservative Party will introduce mandatory national service for 18-year-olds if it wins the national election on July 4, comprising military or community participation, Prime Minister Rishi ...
Zelenskiy urges Biden, Xi to join peace summit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday to join an upcoming peace summit as his country struggles to stave ...
Aid trucks expected to start entering Gaza through Kerem Shalom crossing
About 200 aid trucks, including four fuel trucks, are expected to enter Gaza on Sunday through the Kerem Shalom border crossing, Khaled Zayed, the head of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society ...
Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv kills twelve, injures dozens
By Max Hunder and Vitalii Hnidyi
A Russian strike on a crowded DIY hardware store in Kharkiv killed 12 people and wounded dozens more, Ukrainian prosecutors said on Sunday morning, the ...
More than 670 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide
More than 670 people have died in Papua New Guinea’s massive landslide, the U.N. migration agency estimated on Sunday as rescue efforts continued.
Media in the South Pacific nation ...
South Korea, China agree to launch diplomatic and security dialogue
By Hyonhee Shin, Katya Golubkova and Eduardo Baptista
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Chinese Premier Li Qiang agreed on Sunday to launch a diplomatic and security dialogue and ...
More than 300 buried in Papua New Guinea landslide, local media says
More than 300 people and over 1,100 houses were buried by a massive landslide that levelled a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, local media reported on Saturday.
Hundreds are feared ...
Israel presses on with strikes in Gaza after World Court ruling
Israeli forces killed more than 30 people in new attacks in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said on Saturday, the day after judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel ...
G7 will try to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine
The G7 will explore ways of using the future income from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine, finance chiefs from the Group of Seven industrial democracies said on Saturday, according ...
Thai hospital says 43 people from Singapore Airlines flight still under treatment
Forty three people who were on board a Singapore Airlines SIAL.SI flight that hit severe turbulence remain hospitalised in Bangkok four days after the emergency, a hospital in the ...
EU data protection board says ChatGPT still not meeting data accuracy standards
OpenAI’s efforts to produce less factually false output from its ChatGPT chatbot are not enough to ensure full compliance with European Union data rules, a task force at the ...
Bird flu detected in tissue samples of US dairy cow sent to slaughter, USDA says
Bird flu virus particles were found in tissue samples taken from one dairy cow sent to slaughter at a U.S. meat processing plant, but none were detected in samples ...
World Court orders Israel to halt assault on Rafah
Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel on Friday to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling in ...
Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines, sources say
Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is ...
Food bound for Gaza rots in the sun
Some of the food supplies waiting to enter the Gaza Strip from Egypt have begun to rot as the Rafah border crossing remains shut to aid deliveries for a third ...