EV maker Lucid surges on report Saudi PIF to buy remaining stake
Lucid Group’s (LCID.O) shares surged 43 per cent on Friday, paring gains after doubling on market speculation that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) wanted to buy out ...
Eight shot dead at birthday party in South Africa
Eight people were shot dead and another three injured in a mass shooting at a birthday party in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province on Sunday, police said on Monday.
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Nigeria launches domestic card scheme in cashless bid
Nigeria’s central bank on Thursday launched a domestic card scheme to rival foreign cards like Mastercard and Visa, hoping to enhance its drive to make Africa’s biggest economy ...
Boeing’s 747, the original jumbo jet, prepares for final send-off
Boeing’s BA.N 747, the original and arguably most aesthetic “Jumbo Jet”, revolutionized air travel only to see its more than five-decade reign as “Queen of the Skies” ended by ...
Blinken begins Middle East trip amid spate of violence
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Middle East on Sunday, beginning a three-day visit as violence flares between Israelis and Palestinians, and with Iran and the ...
Strikes will disrupt public transport in France on Tuesday
Public transport in France will be heavily disrupted on Tuesday due to labour union strikes protesting the government’s planned changes to pension, Transport Minister Clement Beaune said on Sunday.
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Over 40 killed in Pakistan bus crash, 10 children drown when boat capsizes
More than 40 people were killed after a bus fell into a ravine and caught fire in the southern Pakistani province of Balochistan on Sunday, officials said.
On the same day ...
Kremlin: Putin open ‘to contacts’ with Germany’s Scholz
Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to contacts with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz though has no phone call scheduled with him, a Kremlin spokesman told the state RIA Novosti news ...
Sunak fires party chairman Zahawi after breach of ministerial code (Update 2)
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired the Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi from government on Sunday after an investigation found he had been insufficiently open about a tax probe which ...
Top U.S. Treasury official to warn Turkey, UAE over sanctions evasion
The U.S. Treasury Department’s top sanctions official on a trip to Turkey and the Middle East next week will warn countries and businesses that they could lose access ...
Strong quake in northwest Iran kills at least three people
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 struck northwest Iran near the border with Turkey on Saturday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 300, state media reported.
The official ...
Israel promises swift response to synagogue shooting
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Saturday a “strong, swift and precise” response to a deadly Palestinian shooting attack near a synagogue on Jerusalem’s outskirts, as its ...
Ukraine in talks with allies about getting long-range missiles
Expedited talks are under way among Kyiv and its allies about Ukraine’s requests for long-range missiles that it says are needed to prevent Russia from destroying Ukrainian cities, a ...
Zelenskiy decries neutrality in sports at time of war
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy condemned the idea of neutrality in sports at a time when his country’s athletes fight and die in war, while their Russian counterparts might ...
New Zealand roiled by flash floods, landslides for third day
New Zealand‘s death toll from heavy rain rose to four on Sunday as flash floods and landslides on the north island continued for a third day.
Battered since Friday, ...
Offshore wind farms move ahead full sail with underwater help
Europe is striving to cut the costs of operating wind turbines on water.
By Michael Allen
Off the coast of Portugal, a team of underwater robots is scanning the base ...
Gold subdued as US data backs Fed rate stance
Gold edged lower on Friday as robust US economic data was seen as fodder for the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates high for longer, but caution ahead of inflation ...
Italy’s Meloni in Libya to conclude $8 billion gas deal
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tripoli on Saturday to conclude an $8 billion gas deal aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and political chaos in the ...
UN refugee chief says Russia violating principles of child protection in Ukraine
Russia is violating the “fundamental principles of child protection” in wartime by giving Ukrainian children Russian passports and putting them up for adoption, the U.N.’s refugee agency (UNHCR) ...
Afghan female students not allowed to sit university entrance exam
The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to restrict women from ...
France extends mandatory Covid tests for Chinese travellers until February 15
France has extended mandatory COVID tests for travellers from China until Feb. 15, a government decree published on Saturday showed.
While Chinese officials have said infections have peaked, some global experts ...
India expects more clashes with Chinese troops in Himalayas
A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ...
UK’s Flybe enters administration, cancels all flights
British airline Flybe entered administration for the second time and has cancelled all scheduled flights to and from the UK, the regional carrier said on Saturday.
With Britain in lockdown ...
North Korea slams United States for pledging tanks to Ukraine
North Korea on Saturday denounced U.S. pledges of battle tanks to Ukraine, claiming Washington was “further crossing the red line” to win hegemony by proxy war, state media KCNA ...