Britain delays major rail project HS2 as costs soar again
Britain said on Thursday it would delay building parts of a new high-speed railway linking London and northern England after the cost of the massive project, known as HS2, soared ...
Turkish lira falls to record low near 19 to the dollar
Turkey’s lira weakened to a fresh record low of 18.9620 against the dollar on Thursday, as investors weigh the economic impact of massive earthquakes that hit the country last month.
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US six-year-old who shot teacher won’t be charged
A Virginia prosecutor said he would not seek charges against a six-year-old boy who police said shot his first-grade teacher at school earlier this year.
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Two Indonesian match officials jailed over deadly football stampede
An Indonesian court handed prison sentences to two soccer match officials on Thursday after finding them guilty of negligence over one of the world’s deadliest stadium stampedes.
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Top US Senate Republican Mitch McConnell hospitalised after fall
US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalised after tripping and falling at a hotel in Washington on Wednesday, his spokesperson said in a statement.
“This evening, Leader McConnell ...
Greek PM apologises for deadly train crash, promises to fix railways
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis apologised on Thursday for a train crash that killed 57 people, promising to fix long-standing deficiencies in the railway sector and support victims’ families as anti-government ...
US spy chiefs see China-Russia ‘love affair’ continuing
China will deepen its cooperation with Russia to try to challenge the United States despite international condemnationof the invasion of Ukraine, the leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies said on ...
Fiddler on the Roof star Chaim Topol dies aged 87
Israeli actor Chaim Topol, best known for his role as Tevye in the 1971 classic musical Fiddler on the Roof, has died at the age of 87 in Israel, a statement from ...
U.S. increasingly worried about West Bank situation as Austin visits Israel
The United States is concerned that escalating tensions in the West Bank could distract Israel and the United States’ attention from Iranian activities, a U.S. official said, a message ...
Latvia’s drunk drivers helping Ukraine’s war efforts
Latvia began seizing cars from heavily drunk drivers this year, and as hundreds of vehicles began overfilling impound lots, decided to send them to the Ukrainian military and hospitals.
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India’s oil deals with Russia dent decades-old dollar dominance
US-led international sanctions on Russia have begun to erode the dollar’s decades-old dominance of international oil trade as most deals with India – Russia’s top outlet for seaborne crude – ...
Three Los Angeles police officers shot, suspect dead (Update)
Three Los Angeles police officers were shot and wounded on Wednesday evening but were in stable condition, while the suspect was dead, according to the chief of police and media ...
Louisville police discriminate against Black people, US Justice Dept says
The Louisville, Kentucky, police force routinely discriminates against Black residents, uses excessive force and conducts illegal searches, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday, following a probe prompted by ...
Georgian protesters rally in Tbilisi after violent clashes with police
Thousands of people staged a second straight day of protests in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Wednesday, rallying outside parliament against a “foreign agents” law which critics say signals an ...
Twenty years later, US Senate may finally end authorization for war on Iraq
A U.S. Senate committee backed legislation on Wednesday to repeal two authorizations for past wars in Iraq, paving the way for a possible vote in the full Senate before ...
Israeli women form human chains to protest planned judicial overhaul
To mark International Women’s Day, thousands of Israeli women formed human chains on Wednesday to protest the right-wing Israeli government’s planned judicial overhaul that would drastically limit the ...
Trafficker suspect caught in Austria after Italy shipwreck disaster
A fourth suspected human trafficker has been arrested in connection with a shipwreck off southern Italy last month in which at least 72 people died, an Italian police official said on ...
Tens of thousands march in Greece in angry train crash protest
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday and workers went on strike in the biggest show of public anger yet over the country’s ...
UK government denies plan to expel asylum seekers breaks law
Britain’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman said on Wednesday the government’s proposals to stop almost all migrants ever claiming asylum were legal despite warnings that the legislation would break ...
Five women who say they were denied abortions sue Texas
Five women who said they were denied abortions despite grave risk to their lives have sued the state of Texas, in the first apparent case of pregnant women suing over ...
Russians claim control over Bakhmut’s east, Ukrainians defiant
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group said on Wednesday his forces had taken full control of the eastern part of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut as one of ...
Women’s Day rallies seek equality, focus on Iran, Afghanistan
Rallies marking International Women’s Day took place around the world on Wednesday after a year in which girls in Afghanistan were banned from education, mass women’s rights protests ...
ECB survey sees moderating inflation, rising wage expectations
Inflation expectations among eurozone consumers dropped in January but expectations for wage growth continued to rise, adding to fears wage growth will slow efforts to control prices, a European Central ...
Gourmet fish bladder races chicken, beef to profitability in Singapore’s lab meat push
By Chen Lin
Huber’s Butchery in Singapore’s lush Dempsey Hill is the lone restaurant in the world selling lab-grown meat, but the supply is so limited there are ...