Saudi Arabia inflation remains at 1.6 per cent in May
Saudi Arabia’s annual inflation rate remained at 1.6 per cent for the third month running in May, government data showed on Sunday, with higher housing rents still the main driver.
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Asking prices for UK houses stagnate in June, Rightmove says
Asking prices for British homes coming to the market were flat this month, adding to signs of a recent cooling off in the housing market upswing, a survey from property ...
Standard Chartered loses bid to cut US sanctions breach claims from UK lawsuit
Standard Chartered on Monday lost a bid to cut from a London lawsuit allegations that it broke US sanctions against Iran in a more widespread way than it has previously ...
Russia sets closed espionage trial for US reporter Gershkovich
Russia’s espionage trial of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who denies charges of collecting secrets for the U.S. CIA, will be held behind closed doors, the ...
US-UK forces launch strikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah and Kamaran Island, Houthi-run TV says
U.S. and British forces have carried out at least six airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah International Airport and four strikes on Kamaran Island near the port of Salif off ...
Campaigning takes off in France for snap election in two weeks
Campaigning kicked off on Monday for France’s snap parliamentary election, which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win ahead of a left-wing alliance, with President Emmanuel Macron’...
UK political parties continue to woo Brits abroad ahead of election
British political parties are continuing to attempt to win over British citizens abroad ahead of the country’s general election, which will take place on July 4.
Liberal Democrat leader Sir ...
EU countries approve landmark nature law after delays
European Union countries approved a flagship policy to restore damaged nature on Monday, after months of delay, making it the first green law to pass since European Parliament elections this ...
Farage promises tighter borders and tax cuts in election ‘contract’
Nigel Farage, whose entry into the election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s faint hopes of victory, set out his policy plans on Monday, describing them as the first ...
Another tourist dead in Greece, others missing as heat toll rises
A 55-year-old American has been found dead on the Greek island of Mathraki, the police said on Monday, the third tourist death in a week following a period of unusually ...
Polls point to ‘electoral extinction’ for Sunak’s Conservatives
Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced “electoral extinction” ...
Kremlin derides outcome of Ukraine talks held without Russia
Russia said on Monday that a Swiss-hosted conference on the Ukraine war had produced negligible results and showed the futility of holding talks without Moscow.
The Kremlin was commenting on ...
FRENCH ELECTIONS
Campaigning kicks off in France for snap election, Le Pen’s far right party holds comfortable lead
Campaigning kicked off in France on Monday for a snap parliamentary election which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win, with President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance coming ...
Netanyahu disbands his inner war cabinet, Israeli official says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said on Monday, in a widely expected move that came after the departure from government of ...
Railway collision in eastern India kills 15, injures several
A freight train smashed into the rear of a stationary passenger train in India’s West Bengal state on Monday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, police said, in ...
NATO in talks to put nuclear weapons on standby, Kremlin accuses alliance of escalation
The Kremlin said on Monday that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s remarks about talks on deploying more nuclear weapons were an escalation.
NATO is in talks to deploy more ...
Lies, damned lies and dodgy data: Voting in South Africa
From deepfake Donald Trumps endorsing key contenders, to claims the vote was rigged, South Africa is awash with online disinformation as political players thrash out a coalition deal after an ...
Ukraine summit sees hard road to peace as way forward uncertain
Western powers and their allies at a summit in Switzerland denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Sunday, but they failed to persuade major non-aligned states to join their final ...
The eurozone in Bulgaria: when and how?
By Michalis Sarris
The euro, a symbol of European unity and economic integration, will soon welcome Bulgaria into its fold. Bulgaria, a “partial” member since the introduction of the currency ...
European elections results: all eyes are on France and Germany
By Maria Demertzis
Last week’s European election results were a mixed bag. The European People’s Party and the Social Democrats, traditionally the biggest parties in Europe, held on ...
Swedish diplomat in ‘seventh heaven’ following release from Iran
Swedish citizen Johan Floderus said he was in seventh heaven following his release from an Iranian prison on Saturday, in a recording published on the Swedish government’s website on ...
Hamburg police fire shots at axe-wielding man ahead of Euro 2024 match
German police shot at a man who threatened officers with a pickaxe and an incendiary device on the sidelines of a Euro 2024 soccer fan parade in central Hamburg on Sunday, ...
Ukraine war must end, Christodoulides says
The war in Ukraine “must end”, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday.
Speaking at the Ukraine peace summit at the Burgenstock resort in Switzerland, he said “illegality stemming from invasion, ...
UKRAINE CRISIS SUMMIT
Ukraine summit strives for broad consensus to lean on Russia to end war
Western powers and countries from the rest of the world will use the second day of a major summit in Switzerland on Sunday to pursue a consensus on condemning Russia’...