British sandwich chain Pret abandons plan to open in Israel
British sandwich and coffee chain Pret A Manger said it has given up on a plan to open stores in Israel, blaming travel restrictions on UK staff as a result ...
Russia’s two largest banks to open in annexed regions of Ukraine by July
Russia’s two largest banks expect to open branches and offices in July in the regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed to have annexed in 2022, the heads of Sberbank (SBER....
Lawmakers brawl in Turkish parliament over pro-Kurdish mayor’s detention
Lawmakers from Turkey’s ruling AK Party and the pro-Kurdish DEM Party brawled in parliament’s general assembly on Tuesday over the detention and replacement of a DEM Party mayor ...
Israel nears decision on Lebanon border offensive, army chief says
Israel is ready for an offensive along the northern border with Lebanon and is nearing a decision, the chief of staff said on Tuesday, as the Hezbollah movement said it ...
US, partners making progress on ways to use frozen Russian assets, Treasury official says
The United States and its G7 partners are making progress on finding ways to provide larger amounts of urgently needed funds to Ukraine by tapping the value of profits earned ...
ELECTIONS IN INDIA
India vote count shows Modi alliance winning surprisingly narrow majority
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alliance was headed for a narrow majority as vote-counting in the general election neared completion on Tuesday, with its tally well short of an ...
Hunter Biden criminal trial jury told ‘no one is above the law’
Hunter Biden’scriminal trial on gun charges kicked off on Tuesday witha government lawyer telling jurors that President Joe Biden’s son was being prosecuted for lying on a form ...
Biden says Netanyahu could be prolonging Gaza war for political aims
U.S. President Joe Biden said Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu may be stalling on ending the war in Gaza for political reasons, according to an interview with Time magazine released ...
UK D-Day veteran says on 80th anniversary: ‘We were making history’
Royal Navy veteran Fred Ayton was told he was “making history” when he set off across the English Channel 80 years ago on the eve of D-Day, a momentous point in ...
Baby girl found in London related to two other abandoned siblings
A baby girl found earlier this year in a shopping bag in east London is the third child to have been abandoned by the same parents in similar circumstances over ...
European Elections
EU struggles to counter Russian election disinformation
The story peddled recurring pro-Kremlin narratives of Warsaw holding aggressive militaristic intentions and of democratic failings in Poland and the wider EU, the team known as Stratcom said.
It was ...
80 years on, UK D-Day veterans set sail for Normandy once again
– Two dozen D-Day veterans were the star passengers of a flotilla which set sail from Portsmouth, England, on Tuesday, bound for the beaches of Normandy where 80 years ago this week ...
Kremlin: Swiss summit on Ukraine is waste of time without Russia
The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was understandable that some countries were declining to take part in a Swiss-hosted peace summit on Ukraine this month because the gathering lacked clear ...
UK Elections
UK’s Labour set for record general election win, poll says
Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is set for its biggest ever victory in next month’s general election, winning by a larger margin than in 1997 under former prime minister ...
Four more Israeli hostages died in Gaza captivity, Israel’s military says
The Israeli military said another four Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7 had died in captivity and that their bodies are being held by the Palestinian Islamist group.
The ...
Turkish manufacturing contracts further in May, PMI shows
Turkish factory activity contracted again in May as a slowdown in demand caused firms to scale back production and employment, a survey showed on Monday.
The Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) ...
Brexit champion Nigel Farage to stand in UK election
Nigel Farage, the colourful politician who helped champion Britain’s departure from the European Union, said on Monday he would stand as a candidate in next month’s election and ...
Lebanon’s Hezbollah launches drones squadron towards Israeli military targets
The armed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Monday it had launched a squadron of drones towards the headquarters of the Israeli military’s Galilee formation.
Such an attack would be ...
Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan acquitted in state secrets case, but to stay in jail
A high court in Pakistan overturned jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s conviction on charges of leaking state secrets, his lawyer and his party said on Monday, but Khan ...
Hunter Biden’s criminal trial begins in aftermath of Trump conviction (Updated)
The criminal trial of Hunter Biden kicked off on Monday in federal court in Delaware as President Joe Biden’s son faces gun charges in a historic case that begins ...
Heat wave kills 56 in India, nearly 25,000 heat stroke cases recorded from March-May
Nearly 25,000 people have suffered suspected heat stroke and 56 died after several heatwaves across India between March and May, local media reported, citing government data.
May has been a particularly bad ...
Founder of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn ordered back to jail, ANA reports
The convicted founder of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikos Mihaloliakos, has been ordered back to prison, the Athens News Agency said on Monday, after an appeals court overturned ...
Rafah border crossing can’t reopen unless Israeli forces quit Gaza side, Egypt says
The Rafah border crossing critical to aid deliveries into Gaza from Egypt cannot operate again unless Israel relinquishes control and hands it back to Palestinians on the Gaza side, Egyptian ...
Russia warns US against ‘fatal’ miscalculation in Ukraine
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Monday the United States could face “fatal consequences” if it ignored Moscow’s warnings not to let Ukraine use weapons provided by ...