Fragile UK economy set to dodge recession for now
Britain’s economy shrank by less than expected in May despite a bank holiday to mark King Charles’ coronation and strikes, suggesting a widely forecast recession caused by high inflation ...
NATO head eyes ‘strong message’ on Ukraine’s membership bid at summit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said it would be “absurd” if NATO leaders gathering for a summit on Tuesday did not offer his country a timeframe for membership, after the alliance ...
61,000 Europeans may have died in last summer’s heatwaves
As many as 61,000 people may have died in Europe’s sweltering heatwaves last summer, according to new research, suggesting countries’ heat preparedness efforts are falling fatally short.
The study by ...
US says to move forward with transfer of F-16 jets to Turkey
U.S. President Joe Biden will move forward with the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey in consultation with Congress, U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on ...
Turkey gives green light to Swedish NATO membership bid (Update 3)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday agreed to forward to parliament Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance, appearing to end months of drama over an issue that ...
Russian, Turkish ministers talk after Turkey sends Ukrainian commanders home
The foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey spoke by telephone on Sunday, a day after Ankara angered Moscow by sending five Ukrainian commanders home with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in what ...
BBC suspends presenter over alleged teenager photos scandal
Britain’s BBC suspended a male member of staff on Sunday following an allegation that one of its star presenters paid a teenager thousands of pounds to pose for sexually ...
US central command says it killed ISIS leader in Eastern Syria
The U.S. Central Command said on Sunday it conducted a drone strike on July 7 that killed an ISIS leader in Eastern Syria.
It used the same MQ-9 drones in ...
NATO makes membership pledge as Zelenskiy drums up support
The head of NATO said on Friday the military alliance would unite at a summit next week on how to bring Kyiv closer to joining, while Ukraine’s president drummed ...
June was world’s hottest on record, EU scientists say
Last month was the hottest June globally on record, with abnormally high temperatures recorded on both land and sea, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said.
Last month ...
UK house prices post biggest annual drop since 2011
British house prices fell last month in annual terms at the fastest rate in 12 years and soaring interest rates are likely to herald more weakness in the housing market, mortgage ...
Lukashenko says Prigozhin back in Russia, Wagner deployment unclear
The mutinous head of Russia’s Wagner group is no longer in Belarus and it is not clear if his fighters will move there, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on ...
Families of missing in Greece migrant boat disaster plead for recovery of bodies
Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother Adil has left the door of his Athens home open in the hope ...
Top EU court clarifies rules for stripping refugee status over serious crimes
The European Union’s top court ruled on Thursday that refugees can be stripped of the protective status in the bloc if they are convicted of a particularly serious crime ...
Germany’s Scholz watching France unrest with concern
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that Germany was watching the unrest in France “with concern”.
French President Emmanuel Macron postponed a state visit to Germany that was set to ...
Mix of calm and concern as cycling’s Tour heads into riot-hit France
By Julien Pretot
While the vast majority of the Tour de France peloton is not concerned by the riots that have been hitting the country following the fatal shooting of ...
Baltimore police say two dead, 28 injured after mass shooting at housing block
By Shivani Tanna and Jahnavi Nidumolu
Police in the U.S. city of Baltimore said that two people had died and 28 others were injured in a mass shooting early on ...
King apologises for Netherlands’ historic role in slavery
Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Saturday apologised for the Netherlands’ historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today.
The king was speaking at a ceremony marking the 160...
Zelenskiy says ‘serious threat’ remains at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Saturday that a “serious threat” remained at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and said Russia was “technically ready” to provoke a localized explosion ...
France’s Macron halts trip over riots, as family buries teenager
More than 1,300 people were arrested in France during a fourth night of rioting and President Emmanuel Macron cancelled a trip to Germany on Saturday as the funeral took place of ...
US actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’, London court told
Kevin Spacey is an aggressive “sexual bully” who assaults men and gets turned on when his unwanted advances provoke anger, a British prosecutor said on Friday at the start of ...
US Supreme Court rules against race-based college admissions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, effectively prohibiting affirmative action policies long used to raise ...
Greece’s Tsipras resigns as Syriza party leader after election defeat
Alexis Tsipras, the one-time leftist firebrand who stormed to power on an anti-austerity agenda in Greece in 2015, stepped down from the helm of the Syriza party after 15 years on Thursday, ...
Aspartame, possible carcinogen according to WHO’s cancer research agency
One of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with ...