Trump raises concerns about US ban on TikTok
Presidential candidate Donald Trump raised concerns about banning TikTok ahead of a vote next week by the U.S. House of Representatives that would give TikTok owner ByteDance about six ...
Ukraine to receive 6 bln euro from EU in next two months, PM says
Ukraine will receive 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) from the European Union via its four-year Ukraine facility in the next two months, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday.
The government expects ...
No Women’s Day in Gaza, say mothers of hungry children
–Women’s Day? At a tent in Rafah where Um Zaki said she was boiling porridge on an open flame to stave off the hunger of her six children, the ...
Britain’s top IRA spy probably cost more lives than he saved
The actions of a senior British informer in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) codenamed “Stakeknife” probably cost more lives than they saved in Northern Ireland’s sectarian conflict, an independent ...
Some Like It Bot: digital Marilyn Monroe to make debut at tech conference
Are you a fan of Marilyn Monroe and would like to talk to a very realistic digital version of her? That could now be possible.
More than 60 years after her ...
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch engaged for sixth time
Rupert Murdoch, 92, got engaged to his girlfriend, Elena Zhukova, a spokesman said, which would mark his fifth trip down the aisle.
The wedding will be held in California, at Murdoch‘...
Sexually transmitted infections surge in Europe
Sexually transmitted infections surged across Europe in 2022, with reported cases of gonorrhoea jumping by nearly a half, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said as it released its ...
Russia’s Medvedev says Biden is a ‘mad’ disgrace to America
Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, called Joe Biden a “mad” disgrace to the United States on Friday and said the U.S. president had no right ...
Israeli offensive in Rafah ‘must not be allowed to happen’, UN says
The United Nations human rights office said on Friday that an Israeli offensive in Gaza’s border town of Rafah could not be allowed to happen because it would cause ...
UN rights chief says transfer by Israel of its own population in occupied Palestinian territories is a war crime
Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories have expanded by a record amount and risk eliminating any practical possibly of a Palestinian state, the U.N. human rights chief said ...
Gunmen kidnap 227 pupils from school in Nigeria
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped more than 200 school pupils in the northern town of Kuriga, a teacher, local councillor and parents of the missing children said, in the biggest mass abduction ...
Gaza ceasefire talks show no sign of progress, US says onus on Hamas
Hamas on Thursday left Gaza ceasefire talks in Cairo where there was no sign of progress just days before the start of Ramadan, while the U.S. said the onus ...
State of the Union: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in feisty speech
President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday, accusing his election rival of threatening U.S. democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he ...
UK house prices rise for 5th consecutive month
British house prices rose for a fifth month in a row in February, climbing by 0.4 per cent from January, according to data from mortgage lender Halifax on Thursday that echoed ...
Russia oil fleet shifts away from Liberia, Marshall Island flags amid US sanctions crackdown
Dozens of oil tankers used by Russia have stopped sailing under the Liberian and Marshall Islands flags in recent weeks after the United States ramped up sanctions enforcement on ships ...
Russian aircraft strike fighters’ bases in Syria, military official says
Russian aircraft struck two bases operated by fighters in Syria’s Idlib province, a Russian official was quoted by news agencies as saying on Thursday, claiming to have killed 20 anti-government ...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to visit Turkey on Friday, Turkish presidency says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Turkey on Friday and meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish Presidency said.
In a post on social media platform X, the Turkish Presidency ...
US to build temporary port to deliver Gaza aid
President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to ...
Sweden joins NATO as war in Ukraine prompts security rethink
Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its national security policy and conclude that support for the alliance ...
Six Sri Lankans knifed to death in Canadian capital in rare case of mass murder
Six people from Sri Lanka, including a mother and four young children, were knifed to death in the Canadian capital Ottawa late on Wednesday, police said on Thursday, rocking a ...
Indians killed in Ukraine were forced to fight for Russia, families say
When Mohammed Asfan from India’s Hyderabad city travelled to Russia to work as a “helper” in the army, his family never imagined he would end up fighting in the ...
Netanyahu: Israel will push on with offensive against Hamas
Israel will push on with its offensive against Hamas, including into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite growing international pressure to stop, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
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Putin ally says Russia did not target Zelenskiy’s motorcade in Odesa
A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had not targeted the delegation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a missile attack on the port of ...
ECB takes small step towards rate cut as inflation falls
The European Central Bank kept borrowing costs at record highs on Thursday but took a first, small step towards lowering them, saying inflation was easing faster than it anticipated only ...