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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has slammed the international community for turning a blind eye to widespread starvation in the Gaza Strip, calling it a "moral crisis that challenges the global conscience.""I cannot explain the level of indifference and inaction we see by too ma...
Business
Intel on Thursday posted quarterly revenue that topped market expectations, saying it has cut about 15 percent of its workforce to be "more agile."The US chip maker also said it "will no longer move forward" with projects in Germany and Poland as part of a push to save billions o...
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Fired by France's imminent recognition of Palestinian statehood, UN members meet next week to breathe life into the push for a two-state solution as Israel, expected to be absent, presses its war in Gaza.Days before the July 28-30 conference on fostering Israeli and Palestinian states living pea...
Colombian guerrilla fighters on Friday freed nine civilians they had kidnapped and held for a week accusing them of delivering weapons to the military in a conflict zone, the country's human rights ombudsman said.The seven women and two men, who the government said were part of a humanitarian mi...
Sports,Football
Newcastle manager Eddie Howe insisted Saturday that Alexander Isak is still a Newcastle player despite speculation around a move to either Premier League champions Liverpool or Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia.Isak has not travelled with Newcastle for their pre-season tour of Asia, apparently because of a m...
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli operations killed 11 people on Saturday in the Palestinian territory devastated by over 21 months of war.Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP the toll included four Palestinians killed in an air strike on the Al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City ...
More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, a medical charity has said.Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said northern Nigeria, which already is struggling with an insurgency, is "currently facing an ...
More than 100,000 people have fled the bloodiest border fighting between Thailand and Cambodia in a decade, Bangkok said Friday, as the death toll rose and international powers urged a halt to hostilities.A long-running border dispute erupted into intense fighting with jets, artillery, tanks and gro...
Saudi Arabia on Friday hailed as "historic" French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement that France would recognise the state of Palestine, and urged other countries to follow suit."The kingdom praises this historic decision, which reaffirms the international community's c...
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would formally recognize a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, the most powerful European nation to announce such a move.At least 142 countries now recognize or plan to recognize Palestinian statehood, according to an AFP tal...
A group of Australian women strip-searched after boarding a Qatar Airways flight in Doha won a court victory Thursday that paves the way for them to sue the airline.In an incident that sparked international outrage, Qatari authorities pulled women off 10 planes in Doha in 2020 and forced them to tak...
Turkey on Wednesday branded the Israeli parliament's vote calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank an "illegitimate and provocative gesture aimed at undermining peace efforts".More than 70 Israeli MPs voted on Wednesday to call on the government to formally annex the territ...
Myanmar's junta claimed on Thursday to have ousted anti-coup rebels from a gold mining hub after a year-long battle, its second declared recapture of a key town in a week.A civil war has consumed Myanmar since a 2021 coup deposed the civilian government, with the military battling a myriad of pr...
US President Donald Trump will visit the Federal Reserve on Thursday, according to the official White House schedule, amid mounting pressure on the independent central bank to lower interest rates.No further details on the nature of the visit were provided by the White House.Trump has openly and rep...
The Philippines shut down schools and cancelled flights Thursday as torrential rains driven by a typhoon and a separate tropical storm pounded the country's northern island of Luzon.Typhoon Co-May, upgraded from a tropical storm overnight, follows days of monsoon rains that have killed at least ...
Stock markets extended the week's gains Thursday on optimism other countries will follow up Japan's US trade deal with ones of their own, with speculation building that the European Union is on course.Investors have been on a roll in recent weeks on bets that governments will eventually hamm...
Europe's new car market saw a sharp seven-percent year-on-year drop in June, with top economies Germany, France and Italy posting especially steep declines, according to automobile manufacturers' figures published on Thursday.The continent's car industry has laboured under an u...
Marcus Rashford said his new club Barcelona already "feels like home" after the Spanish champions loaned the attacker from Manchester United on Wednesday with a future purchase option."Barcelona and Manchester United have reached a deal for the loan of the player Marcus Rashford until...
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami team-mate Jordi Alba could face a suspension after withdrawing from Major League Soccer's All-Star game, multiple US media reports said on Wednesday.Argentina superstar Messi and Alba had been due to start for a combined MLS team which will face a squad representing ...
Ukrainian and Russian officials could meet in Istanbul on Wednesday for a third round of peace talks, their first meeting in more than seven weeks amid US pressure to reach a ceasefire.Expectations of a breakthrough are low.The two sides previously met in May and June, but failed to agree an end to ...
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