London police to “carefully consider” Prince Harry phone hacking ruling
London’s police said they will “carefully consider” the findings of a court ruling that found Prince Harry had been a victim of phone hacking and other unlawful acts by ...
Fighting rages in Gaza as US seeks protection of civilians
Israeli and Hamas forces battled throughout Gaza on Friday, witnesses said, suggesting Israel’s ground offensive was meeting stiffer resistance as the U.S. pushed its ally to alter a ...
Missing boy found in France expected to return to UK in next few days
– A teenager from Britain who resurfaced in southern France after disappearing six years ago is expected to return to northern England in the next few days, police said on Friday ...
Prince Harry wins damages over phone-hacking by British newspapers
Prince Harry scored the biggest win yet in his legal war against British tabloids on Friday when London’s High Court ruled he had been a victim of phone-hacking and ...
Putin says Russia’s war in Ukraine will go on unless Kyiv does a deal
Russia will press on with its war in Ukraine unless Kyiv does a deal that takes Moscow’s security concerns into account, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, adding that ...
Turkish MP dies after suffering heart attack in parliament
An opposition Turkish lawmaker died on Thursday, two days after suffering a heart attack and collapsing in front of parliament as he finished a speech criticising the government’s policy ...
Israeli strikes length of Gaza as US calls for more accurate targeting (Updated)
Israel pounded the length of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing families in their homes even as Washington sent an envoy to encourage its ally to guard better against civilian ...
Israel suffers worst combat losses since October, diplomatic isolation
Israel announced its worst combat losses for more than a month on Wednesday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City, and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths ...
Sunak’s favourability hits all-time low
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is the most unpopular he has been since moving into Downing Street with his net favourability rating slipping by 10 percentage points since late November, a ...
Nations strike deal at COP28 to transition away from fossil fuels
Representatives from nearly 200 countries agreed at the COP28 climate summit on Wednesday to begin reducing global consumption of fossil fuels to avert the worst of climate change, signalling the eventual ...
UK’s Sunak wins parliament vote on Rwanda migrant plan despite rebellion
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s emergency bill to revive his plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda avoided defeat in parliament on Tuesday, surviving a rebellion by dozens of ...
Israel pounds Gaza as hunger spreads, disease risk grows
Israeli tanks and warplanes carried out new strikes on southern Gaza on Tuesday, and the U.N. said aid flows to Palestinians facing growing hunger had largely dried up because ...
PM Rishi Sunak’s high-stakes battle over controversial Rwanda asylum plan
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces the biggest parliamentary test of his premiership on Tuesday when lawmakers vote on his divisive plan to send asylum seekers to live in Rwanda.
...
Gazans say hunger is causing social breakdown, fuelling fears of exodus into Egypt
Hamas said it was striking back against Israeli forces across Gaza on Monday and Palestinians and international relief agencies said public order was disintegrating as hunger spread, fuelling fears of ...
Ukraine says no green light for EU membership talks would be ‘devastating’
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday it would be “devastating” for Kyiv and the European Union if EU leaders do not give his country the green light for ...
Confectioners eye holiday boost as UK shoppers snub expensive gifts
Quality Street maker Nestle and Cadbury owner Mondelez (MDLZ.O) are seeing higher sales of confectionery in Britain this holiday season driven by cash-strapped shoppers seeking cheaper gifts.
Shoppers hit ...
Gaza ‘catastrophic’ health situation almost impossible to improve- WHO
The World Health Organization chief said on Sunday it will be all but impossible to improve the “catastrophic” health situation in Gaza even as the board passed an emergency WHO ...
Iran tries Swedish EU employee for ‘spying for Israel’ – judiciary
Iran said on Sunday that it had begun the trial of a Swedish national employed by the European Union who is charged with spying for Israel and “corruption on earth,” ...
COP28 clashes over fossil fuel phase-out after OPEC pushback
Countries clashed on Saturday over a proposed agreement to phase-out fossil fuels at the COP28 summit in Dubai, jeopardising attempts to deliver a first-ever commitment to eventually end the use ...
US lawmakers demand Harvard, MIT, Penn remove presidents after antisemitism hearing
More than 70 US lawmakers on Friday demanded the governing boards of three of the country’s top universities remove their presidents, citing dissatisfaction with their testimony at a hearing about ...
Israel orders more evacuations after US blocks Gaza ceasefire call
Israel ordered residents out of the centre of Gaza’s main southern city Khan Younis on Saturday and pounded the length of the enclave, after the United States wielded its ...
US embassy in Baghdad attacked with rockets, no casualties
Rockets were fired at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad on Friday in an attack believed to have been carried out by Iran-aligned militias which have targeted U.S. interests ...
Hundreds more Palestinians killed as Israel pursues Hamas in south Gaza (Update)
Israel battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip’s biggest cities on Thursday, leaving hundreds more Palestinians dead as almost 2 million displaced Gazans struggled to find safe refuge amid critical ...
Turning over a page, Greece and Turkey agree to mend ties (Updated)
Greece and Turkey on Thursday agreed to reboot their relations, establishing a roadmap designed to usher in a new era of closer ties between the two NATO allies but historical ...