Zelenskiy calls on West to warn Russia not to blow up dam
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the West to warn Russia not to blow up a dam that would flood a large area of southern Ukraine, as his forces prepared to ...
Cases of Covid variants double in US, Europe warns of rise
US health regulators on Friday estimated that BQ.1 and closely related BQ.1.1 accounted for 16.6% of coronavirus variants in the country, nearly doubling from last week, while Europe expects them to ...
Boris Johnson arrives back in Britain to attempt rapid political comeback
Boris Johnson arrived back in Britain on Saturday as he considers an audacious attempt to win a second term as prime minister only weeks after he was forced to step ...
U.S. sees no evidence Russia is interested in ending Ukraine aggression – Blinken
The United States will consider every means to advance diplomacy with Russia if it sees an opening, but at the moment Moscow shows no sign of willingness to engage in ...
Protests rage in Iran’s southeast, amid crackdown call
Protests broke in restive southeastern Iran on Friday, with demonstrators attacking banks, state media reported, as a senior cleric called for tough measures against demonstrators across the country.
The Islamic ...
Venezuela’s opposition unwilling to back interim Guaido govt for 2023
Venezuela’s opposition parties have warned they are likely to withdraw backing for Juan Guaido’s Washington-endorsed interim government in 2023, four people familiar with the matter said, raising questions about ...
India secular character must be preserved, country’s top court says
India’s secular character must be preserved and protected, and states must take action to stop hate speeches, the country’s top court said on Friday, in response to a ...
Trump ex-adviser Bannon sentenced to four months for contempt of Congress
Steve Bannon, a one-time adviser to former President Donald Trump, was sentenced by a judge on Friday to four months in prison for refusing to cooperate with lawmakers investigating last ...
Race to be next UK PM begins as momentum grows behind Boris Johnson (Updated)
Four senior ministers on Friday threw their weight behind Boris Johnson to return as British prime minister, after Liz Truss’s resignation triggered a contest to quickly replace her as ...
Meloni takes charge as PM as Italy swings to the right (update)
Giorgia Meloni was on Friday named as Italy’s first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team, setting her seal on the country’s most right-wing government since World ...
Erdogan denies allegations of Turkish army using chemical weapons
President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey’s armed forces have never used chemical weapons and they abide by international law, saying legal action would be taken against those who have made ...
Egypt’s currency seen falling faster than previous projections
Egypt’s currency will weaken at a steeper pace than expected, although inflation is likely to decrease over the next few years, a Reuters poll showed.
The Egyptian pound, trading ...
EU leaders turn to foreign policy after agreeing to disagree on gas cap
European Union leaders will discuss cutting their economic dependency on China, aiding Kyiv and punishing Iran for its involvement in the war that Russia is waging on Ukraine when they ...
Kevin Spacey wins in civil sexual-abuse case brought by actor Rapp
Kevin Spacey on Thursday defeated a sexual abuse case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found his accuser didn’t prove his claim that the Oscar winner ...
Prescient or traitor? Rishi Sunak is the favourite to be next UK PM
To some Conservatives, Rishi Sunak is the minister who got Britain through the COVID pandemic, to others the traitor who knifed Boris Johnson or the rival to Liz Truss who ...
US judge ruling allows guns back in churches and places of worship
A federal judge barred the state of New York, at least for now, from enforcing the part of a closely watched gun law that bans firearms from churches or other ...
Iranian trainers on the ground help Russia with Ukraine drone attacks, U.S. says
The United States said on Thursday that Iranian military trainers were in Crimea helping Russian forces operate Iranian-made drones to attack targets in Ukraine, adding an alarming strand to a ...
A 1990s relic, floppy disks get second life at California warehouse
It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.
Tom ...
Tesla cars will not be approved as fully self driving this year, Musk says
Tesla Inc’s TSLA.O advanced driver assistant software will not gain regulatory approval in 2022, Chief Executive Elon Musk said, signaling that the company is not yet able to satisfy ...
Ukraine says Russia wants to provoke mass migration to EU by hitting power plants
Russia is attacking Ukrainian power plants because it wants to force people to leave their homes and move westward to European Union nations, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.
Zelenskiy ...
Massachusetts woman accused of assaulting officers with swarm of angry bees
A Massachusetts woman stands accused of using a swarm of bees as a dangerous weapon, according to a county sheriff, after she allegedly unleashed a hive of angry insects on ...
Russia says West’s Ukraine weapons are going into the black market
Russia said on Thursday that the West’s supplies of advanced weapons to Ukraine were finding their way into the black market and then into the hands of extremist and ...
Russia says outgoing PM Truss was a ‘catastrophically illiterate’ disgrace
Russia’s foreign ministry on Thursday welcomed the departure of British Prime Minister Liz Truss, saying she was a disgrace of a leader who would be remembered for her “catastrophic ...
Swiss prosecutors appeal against acquittals of Blatter and Platini
Swiss federal prosecutors have filed an appeal to overturn the acquittals of former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France footballing great Michel Platini on corruption charges, they said on Thursday.
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