14,000 people in England denied vote due to ID rule
About 14,000 people were denied a vote in English local elections last month after they were unable to provide identification required under a new law, the Electoral Commission said on Friday.
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Biden to sign executive order expanding access to contraception
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday will sign an executive order designed to protect and expand access to contraception, after a Supreme Court ruling last year overturning the constitutional ...
Greek bonds snapping at heels of southern Europe’s best in class
Greece is heading into an election weekend with its public debt trading near the levels enjoyed by first-class peripheral countries, a decade after a debt crisis forced a dramatic reshaping ...
Turkey’s lira hits fresh record lows after rate hike
The Turkish lira weakened as much as 2.8 per cent to a fresh record low early on Friday, extending losses as the central bank’s large rate hike a day earlier, ...
Titanic director Cameron wishes he’d sounded alarm over lost submersible
Movie director and submersible maker James Cameron said on Thursday he wishes he had sounded the alarm earlier about the submersible Titan that imploded on an expedition to the Titanic ...
Zelenskiy: Russia is hiding bodies of victims of dam breach
Russia has formed special groups to collect and hide bodies of people killed in the aftermath of the breach this month of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine, President Volodymyr ...
Greek conservatives appear set to win Sunday election tinged by tragedy
Former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservatives appear set to win a repeat election in Greece on Sunday after an inconclusive vote on May 21, putting him back in office.
Mitsotakis’s ...
Saudi sovereign wealth fund PIF sells McLaren stake to Bahrain
Bahrain’s state investment fund Mumtalakat is buying preference shares and warrants worth 400 million pounds ($510.48 million) in carmaker McLaren from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) and Ares Management (...
Biden addresses Xi ‘dictator’ remark, says US-China relations unharmed
President Joe Biden said on Thursday he did not think his comment referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a dictator had undermined or complicated the U.S. relationship with ...
Cluster munitions would be useful for Ukraine, Pentagon says
The United States military believes that cluster munitions would be useful for Ukraine in pushing back against Russian forces, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday, but they had not ...
No survivors after Titanic sub wreckage found on ocean floor (Update 2)
A deep-sea submersible carrying five people on a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic was found in pieces from a “catastrophic implosion” that killed everyone aboard, the U....
Biden, Modi hail new era for India, US relations amid flurry of deals
President Joe Biden hailed a new era in the U.S.-India relationship, after rolling out the White House red carpet for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, touting ...
Ukrainian PM says he’s sure Ukraine will get money needed to rebuild
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Thursday he was certain Ukraine would receive the $6.5 billion it needs this year for its rapid reconstruction programmes from pledges made at a ...
TC lawyers travel to Ankara for Isias Hotel case updates
Representatives of the Cyprus Turkish Bar Association travelled to Ankara on Thursday to receive updates on the case against the operators of the Isias Hotel.
The lawyers will meet with ...
British surrogate parents ‘stuck’ in north as baby cannot get passport
A British couple who used a surrogate in the north to give birth to their son have been stranded there for three months as they wait for him to be ...
Russian mercenary boss accuses top brass of Ukraine battlefield cover-up
Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin added fuel to his feud with the top brass on Thursday, accusing them of lying to President Vladimir Putin and the Russian people about the ...
Greece boat tragedy: At least 209 Pakistanis were on board
There were at least 209 Pakistani “victims” on an overloaded boat that capsized and sank in open seas off Greece last week, according to data shared by a Pakistani investigative agency ...
Bank of England hikes rates to 5 per cent in surprise move to tackle stubborn inflation
The Bank of England raised interest rates by a bigger-than-expected half a percentage point on Thursday after it said there had been “significant” news suggesting British inflation would take longer ...
Brexit an ‘economic disaster’ for UK and German trade
Brexit has been an “economic disaster” for trade and investment ties between the United Kingdom and Germany, leading to a fall in German direct investment and seeing the UK decline ...
Over 30 feared dead as dinghy bound for Canary Islands sinks
More than 30 migrants were feared dead after a dinghy headed for Spain’s Canary Islands sank on Wednesday, two migration-focused organisations said, as they criticised Spain and Morocco for not ...
UK banks to ramp up data sharing in dirty money crackdown
British banks are gearing up to share more data with their peers on suspected serious economic crime as part of wider efforts to stem dirty money flows into the country ...
Turkish central bank to hike rates sharply in post-election pivot
Turkey’s central bank is expected to raise its policy rate sharply on Thursday in a strong signal that re-elected President Tayyip Erdogan has accepted some steps toward economic orthodoxy ...
Blast at BBQ shop in northwest China kills 31
A gas explosion at a barbecue eatery on Wednesday night in China’s northwestern Ningxia region killed 31, according to state-run Xinhua news agency, in one of the country’s deadliest ...
Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to mainland in blow to Russian supply route
Ukrainian missiles struck one of the few bridges linking the Crimea Peninsula with the Ukrainian mainland early on Thursday, cutting one of the main supply routes for Russian occupation forces ...