UK sees record sickness and zero productivity growth in 2022
Britain saw a record number of working days lost due to short-term sickness last year and zero annual growth in economic output per hour worked in the final quarter of 2022, ...
COVID here to stay but moving out of emergency phase – WHO
The virus causing COVID-19 is here to stay but the world is beginning to transition out of the emergency phase of the pandemic, the World Health Organization’s chief said ...
Voters say neither Biden nor Trump should run in 2024
About half of U.S. Democrats say President Joe Biden should not seek re-election next year and that he is too old to run, a worrisome sign for the 80-year-old, ...
China’s Xi holds first call with Ukraine’s Zelenskiy since Russian invasion
Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by telephone on Wednesday Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, after months of pressure from ...
Navalny says he faces 30 more years in Russian jail
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that investigators had opened what he called an “absurd” terrorism case against him that could see him sentenced to an additional 30 ...
UK warns China secrecy over military expansion risks ‘tragic miscalculation’
British foreign minister James Cleverly urged China to be more open about what he called the biggest military build-up in peacetime history and said secrecy around its plans could lead ...
Turkey Central Bank gross reserves seen down $5 bln last week
Turkish central bank total gross reserves are expected to have fallen more than $5 billion to about $116 billion last week due to rising foreign currency demand as the May elections approach, ...
Shaky ceasefire in Sudan as warring parties not ready to negotiate – U.N.
A U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Sudan appears to be partially holding but there is no sign the warring parties are ready to seriously negotiate, the U.N. special envoy ...
British American Tobacco Plc to pay more than $635 mln in North Korea sanctions case
British American Tobacco Plc has agreed to pay more than $635 million to U.S. authorities after a subsidiary pleaded guilty to charges that it conspired to violate U.S. sanctions ...
Foreign minister welcomes evacuees from Sudan
The first flight that arrived from Sudan to Larnaca was welcomed on Tuesday evening by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Constantinos Kombos.
According to an announcement by the ministry, the minister ...
Kabul airport attack ‘mastermind’ killed by Taliban
The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the “mastermind” behind a suicide attack at Kabul’s international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of ...
London Q1 finance job vacancies plummet 31 per cent year-on-year
First-quarter job opportunities in London’s financial sector plunged by almost a third year-on-year, recruiter Morgan McKinley said on Tuesday, as firms struggle with economic and geopolitical headwinds.
The collapse ...
Harry Belafonte, who mixed music, acting, and activism, dies at 96
Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting “Day O” in his 1950s hit song “Banana Boat” before turning to political activism, has died ...
Central banks signal end of bank turmoil with cut in dollar funding line
The world’s top central banks are cutting the frequency of their dollar liquidity operations with the US Federal Reserve from May, sending the clearest signal yet that last month’...
Kenya hunger cult deaths reach 89, minister prays survivors will ‘tell the story’
The death toll among followers of a Kenyan cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves has risen to 89, Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki said on Tuesday, ...
Brazil’s Lula: Russian invasion of Ukraine unacceptable, but let’s talk peace
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday, but said no one is talking about peace in what he called an “insane war.”
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Judge in Donald Trump rape case warns against inciteful statements
The judge in former President Donald Trump’s rape case ordered lawyers at the start of a civil trial on Tuesday to keep their clients and witnesses from making public ...
Japan’s ispace assumes failure in bid to make first commercial moon landing
Japanese startup ispace 9348.T assumed failure in its attempt to make the first private moon landing on Tuesday as engineers struggled to regain contact with the company’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 (...
South Africa to try to withdraw from ICC again – Ramaphosa
South Africa’s governing African National Congress will aim to repeal the country’s membership of the International Criminal Court (ICC), President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday, the second time ...
Patriarch says Russians who don’t serve country are ‘internal enemies’
The head of Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church on Tuesday branded Russians who fail to serve their country as “internal enemies” and described patriotism as the “greatest virtue”, the RIA ...
Turkey arrests 110 over alleged Kurdish militant ties ahead of election
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 110 people over alleged militant ties, security sources said, with a pro-Kurdish lawmaker saying politicians, lawyers and journalists were among those held in raids that he ...
Israel marks 75th anniversary amid doubt and division
Israel celebrates its 75th anniversary this week in a fractious and uncertain mood, overshadowed by a battle over the judiciary that has opened up some of the deepest social divisions ...
Kremlin dismisses ‘lies’ that Putin has doubles and sits in a bunker
The Kremlin rejected what it said were lies that President Vladimir Putin had lookalike body doubles who stood in for the 70-year-old leader and that he spent much of his ...
Biden makes 2024 presidential run official: ‘Let’s finish this job’
President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he will seek a second White House term in 2024, a decision that will test whether Americans are ready to give the 80-year-old Democrat, already ...