With large crowds attending, Norway lays King Harald to rest
Norway’s King Harald V was laid to rest on Wednesday, in a series of ceremonies marking the culmination of 13 days of national mourning following his death at the age ...
EU proposes simpler public tender rules, ‘Buy European’ criteria to cut foreign dependence
The European Commission has proposed new rules for public tenders that would create an EU-wide platform to improve access and slash paperwork for companies, and give EU governments the option ...
Russia says it hopes US-mediated talks with Ukraine will resume soon
Russia hopes that U.S.-mediated peace talks on ending the war in Ukraine will resume soon, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.
No such talks between Russia and ...
Holocaust survivor ‘appalled’ by prospect of far-right in power in German state
Eva Umlauf was two years old when she and her mother were freed from the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in January 1945. She says she is horrified to see that more ...
Serbia’s President Vucic dissolves parliament, calls snap elections
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday dissolved parliament and announced snap elections for next month as he seeks to extend his hold on power by running for prime minister.
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Iran and US hit tankers in biggest wave of attacks on shipping since war began
Iran said on Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, in the biggest declared wave of tit-for-tat attacks ...
Israel tells Britain: You have 30 days to close your consulate in East Jerusalem
Israel has told the British consulate in East Jerusalem that it must close and that diplomats assigned there will lose their accreditation within 30 days, an Israeli official and two sources ...
Russian drones kill, injure people at Ukraine-Moldova border crossing
Russian drones hit a border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova in the southern region of Odesa, killing two people, and attacked the country’s capital Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian authorities said ...
US bans Canadian alcohol and motorcycles as trade war escalates
The United States banned a broad swath of Canadian alcoholic beverages, motorcycles and dairy products from import on Tuesday, sharply escalating an already acrimonious trade spat.
The import bans, which ...
Iran fires missiles at US-used base in Jordan as Gulf war escalates
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the U.S. military and attacked 10 ships on Wednesday, after the U.S. said ...
Iran threatens to attack US bases if tankers hit
Iran has threatened to attack US military bases in the region if Iranian oil tankers are targeted.
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Ali Abdollahi said any attack ...
Canada strikes back at US with retaliatory tariffs
Canada imposed new tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American imports on Tuesday, escalating a trade dispute with the United States that has strained relations between the two neighbouring countries.
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Maldives’ asks Burnham to reopen talks over Chagos Islands
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has written to British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, asking him to reopen talks over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a spokesperson said on Tuesday in ...
Israel to close British consulate in East Jerusalem
Israel said on Tuesday it was closing Britain’s consulate in East Jerusalem in response to plans by the UK, France and Canada to block imports from Israeli settlements in ...
Air traffic control issue disrupts departing flights at major UK airports
Some departing flights at major British airports were disrupted on Tuesday after air traffic control provider NATS experienced a technical issue, with Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Stansted among the airports ...
UK, France and Canada sanction Israeli West Bank settlements, in support for two-state solution
Britain on Tuesday announced a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in coordination with France and Canada, the latest sanctions to target Israel ...
Teen reading slumps to worst this century due to surge in screen time
Teenagers more accustomed to smartphones than Shakespeare are reading at the worst levels seen this century, driving a broader decline in education, a global student assessment found.
The Organisation for ...
Far-right triumph in eastern Germany leaves migrants questioning their future
Mamad Mohamad watched with mixed emotions as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) swept to a historic victory on Sunday evening in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.
A member of ...
Iran-backed Houthis attack four Saudi cities in expansion of Middle East war
Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthis attacked four cities in the south of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and setting oil installations ablaze in what appeared ...
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UK to sanction Israeli West Bank settlements in support for two-state solution
Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank later on Tuesday, a senior minister said, framed as a step up in ...
Mladic funeral draws thousands and opens old wounds, EC President von der Leyen shocked by turnout
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday that the images of the large turnout for the funeral of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic were “shocking”, and added ...
Iran threatens US with economic warfare, fires missile at warships
Iran threatened the United States with “economic warfare” on Tuesday and said it had fired an advanced missile at U.S. warships, underscoring the risks of further escalation in the ...
Burnham tells Christodoulides of ‘UK’s intention to get closer to EU’
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday told Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides that his country intends to “get closer” to the European Union, six and a half years after leaving ...
Far-right win leaves Germany’s Merz shaken as AfD plots path to power
Chancellor Friedrich Merz ruled out working with the Alternative for Germany on Monday after the far-right party surged into first place in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, but he conceded the ...