US disapproves of Dennis Rodman’s planned rescue mission for Griner
The White House has a dim view of former American pro basketball player Dennis Rodman’s reported plan to travel to Russia and gain the release of American basketball star ...
Bank of Israel makes strongest rate hike in 20 years to cool inflation
The Bank of Israel raised its benchmark interest rate on Monday (ILINR=ECI) by three-quarters of a percentage point, its biggest hike in two decades, and appeared on track for ...
Turkey tourist arrivals rise sharply
Turkey’s foreign visitors jumped 53 per cent in July from a year earlier, exceeding pre-pandemic levels and paving the way for $37 billion in tourism revenues sought by the government in ...
Ukraine’s turbulent history since independence
Ukraine marks six months on Wednesday since Russia invaded the country in what Russian President Vladimir Putin calls a “special military operation”.
Ukraine and its Western backers accuse Moscow of ...
Anti-government protesters gather outside New Zealand’s parliament
About 2,000 anti-government demonstrators gathered outside New Zealand’s parliament on Tuesday to vent their frustration on a range of issues nearly six months after protesters were forcibly removed from the ...
‘It’s like sitting on a powder keg’, say people near Ukraine nuclear plant
People living near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, which is in southern Ukraine, on Monday said they were worried about the potentially disastrous consequences if it were hit by ...
Palestinian tourists arrive in Larnaca for first time on direct flight
Palestinian tourists landed on Monday at Larnaca International Airport for the first time on a direct flight from Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, on a flight operated by Israeli ...
Australia embarks on crypto stock-taking ahead of sector regulation
Australia said on Monday it would do a virtual stocktake of the country’s cryptocurrency holdings, the first signal from the new centre-left government that it plans to regulate the $1 ...
Defense urges Florida jury to spare life of Parkland school shooter
A defense attorney on Monday implored a Florida jury to spare the life of Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people in a 2018 high school mass shooting in the city of Parkland, ...
UK inflation to top 18% in early 2023, Citi warns
British consumer price inflation is set to peak at 18.6% in January, more than nine times the Bank of England’s target, an economist at U.S. bank Citi said on ...
Bulgaria says talks to resume Russian gas supplies are ‘inevitable’
Bulgaria’s interim energy minister said it was “inevitable” that the Balkan country would discuss resuming gas deliveries with Russia’s Gazprom GAZP.MM that were halted in April, after ...
Finnish PM tests negative for drugs in wake of leaked party video
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has tested negative in a drug test she took following the publication of video footage last week that showed her partying with friends, the prime ...
Fauci to step down as NIAID head, Biden’s chief medical adviser
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the chief medical adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, will step down ...
Britain to pilot using smaller doses of monkeypox vaccine to boost supply
Britain is following the United States and Europe in making the most of limited supply of the monkeypox vaccine by administering smaller doses of the shot, health officials said on ...
Swedish police say they disarmed explosives found in Stockholm park
Stockholm police destroyed a bag containing explosives that was found in a park in the Swedish capital late on Sunday night and are investigating further, they said on Monday.
The ...
Forest fires south of Moscow flare up amid heatwave, officials say
Forest fires raging south of Moscow have intensified, Russian authorities said on Monday as residents of the capital complained of a sharp smell of smoke pervading the air.
Since early ...
Prince William and Kate’s children to start new school near Windsor
The three young children of Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate are to start at a new school next month, his office announced on Monday, as the family ...
No flights under new rules yet for West Bank Palestinians
A group of Palestinian passengers flew to Cyprus from an Israeli airport on Monday, but the flight was not organised under a promised arrangement easing travel restrictions for residents of ...
Ukraine bans Independence Day rallies for fear of Russian strikes
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv banned public celebrations this week to commemorate independence from Russian-dominated Soviet rule, citing a heightened threat of Russian attack in a war that the United Nations ...
Germany’s football body to hire Deutsche Bank for media rights sale
Germany’s football body has appointed Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) to lead the possible sale of a package of media rights, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar ...
Philippine children finally back in school as pandemic restrictions ease
Millions of Philippine students returned to classrooms for the first time in more than two years on Monday, after the country lifted most remaining COVID-19 curbs to try and reverse ...
Almost 9,000 Ukrainian military killed in war with Russia
Nearly 9,000 Ukrainian military personnel have been killed in the war with Russia, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces said on Monday.
The toll given by General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi appeared ...
Russia’s security service accuses Ukraine of murdering ultra-nationalist’s daughter
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday accused Ukraine’s secret services of carrying out the weekend murder of Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian ideologue, Russian ...
UK economy shrank record 11% in 2020, worst since 1709
Britain recorded its biggest fall in output in more than 300 years in 2020 when it faced the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a larger decline than any other ...