Business & Commerce
The European Central Bank is set to hold interest rates for the first time in almost a year when policymakers meet this week, despite concerns over the potential impact of higher US tariffs on the eurozone economy.The 26 members of the ECB's governing council will meet just over a week before an...
World
China confirmed that top leaders from the European Union will visit on Thursday for a summit, as the two major trading partners seek to smooth over a series of trade disputes."As agreed between China and the EU, President of the European Council Antonio Costa and President of the European Commi...
The Ecuadoran government on Sunday extradited notorious drug trafficker Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito," to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a 2024 escape from a maximum security penitentiary, the country's prison authority said.The flight transporting Macias la...
Three people died and more than 500 others were rescued after a ferry caught fire off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, emergency officials said Monday.Passengers jumped overboard with lifejackets after the fire broke out on Sunday at the stern of the KM Barcelona 5, as it sailed to Manado, accordi...
An Israeli military order for residents and displaced people in Gaza's Deir el-Balah area to move south dealt "another devastating blow" to humanitarian efforts in the war-ravaged territory, the UN's OCHA aid agency said on Sunday.The United Nations Office for the Coordination of H...
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Japan is heavily investing in a new kind of ultra-thin, flexible solar panel that it hopes will help it meet renewable energy goals while challenging China's dominance of the sector.Pliable perovskite panels are perfect for mountainous Japan, with its shortage of flat plots for traditional solar...
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of Palestinians waiting to collect humanitarian aid in the territory's north on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding dozens more.Further to the south, the Israeli military ordered Palestinians to leave Deir el-Balah, in...
From his monitoring station on a remote hill in the occupied West Bank, water operator Subhil Olayan keeps watch over a lifeline for Palestinians, the Ein Samiyah spring.So when Israeli settlers recently attacked the system of wells, pumps and pipelines he oversees, he knew the stakes."There is...
Rescuers were desperately searching for five people still missing on Sunday after 37 were killed when a boat capsized in one of Vietnam's most popular tourist destinations.The tourist boat ferrying families around Vietnam's famed Ha Long Bay was lashed by a storm on Saturday in one of the UN...
Scientists present at the latest effort to hash out international rules for deep-sea mining say it's unclear if it's possible to restore damaged sea floor ecosystems -- or how long it would take.One of the last wild zones on the planet, the sea floor is a coveted frontier for companies and c...
UK police arrested over 100 people in London and other cities for supporting Palestine Action in a third consecutive weekend of protests over the government's decision to ban the activist group using anti-terror laws.Some 55 people were held at a demonstration in London's Parliament Square u...
Sports,Football
Iran has booked the final ticket to the women's Asian Cup, beating Jordan 2-1 with the cast now set for the 2026 tournament in Australia.Marziyeh Jafari's side defied the odds with victory in Amman on Saturday to ensure they will be at the event in Perth, Gold Coast and Sydney from March 1-2...
Gritty Germany reached the Women's Euro 2025 semi-finals on Saturday after prevailing 6-5 in a penalty shootout against France after playing with 10 women for almost all of a gruelling match which finished 1-1 after extra time.Ann-Katrin Berger was the hero by saving Amel Majri and Alice Sombath...
The digital travel permit for foreigners to enter the European Union should cost 20 euros ($23), almost triple the original planned fee, under a proposal published Friday.The adjustment to the yet-to-be implemented ETIAS scheme for visa-exempt nationals comes as the European Commission seeks to boos...
European and Asian stocks markets closed out the week broadly higher Friday following Wall Street's latest record highs sparked by healthy US retail data and upbeat earnings.The readings helped divert attention away from Donald Trump's tariffs saga, with dozens of countries yet to cut deals ...
Three people died Friday in an explosion at a police training facility in Los Angeles, in what one local official called an accident."Tragically, they were three sworn members who were fatally killed," Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said."No other department members were injur...
Canada's wildfires have burned more than 13.6 million acres (5.5 million hectares) this year, an area roughly the size of Croatia, officials said Friday as the country endures one of its most destructive fire seasons.In 2023, Canada's worst-ever fire season, 42.9 million acres of land were s...
Singapore announced it was battling a "serious" cyberattack against its critical infrastructure, attributing the hack to an espionage group that experts have linked to China.The attack, a kind of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), poses a serious danger to the city-state, Coordinating Minis...
Cuba scrapped the maximum age limit of 60 for its presidential candidates as part of a constitutional reform approved Friday by parliament.The communist-ruled island's restriction of two five-year presidential terms and minimum age of 35 for candidates were left unchanged.The measure, approved b...
Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday to the Japanese prime minister's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse.Soon after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of con...
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