Former Mexican President Echeverria dies at 100
Former Mexican President Luis Echeverria, who took office in 1970 promising a democratic opening for the country but oversaw six of the harshest years of a so-called “dirty war” against dissidents, ...
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Rybakina powers past Jabeur to Wimbledon title
Elena Rybakina produced a sensational display of power tennis to beat Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur 3-6 6-2 6-2 and become the first player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam ...
Rogers services restored for majority of customers after Canada-wide outage
Rogers Telecommunication RCIb.TO said on Saturday that it has restored services for the majority of its customers after a service outage at one of Canada’s biggest telecom operators ...
Sri Lanka protesters storm president’s house, set fire to prime minister’s residence (Updated)
Thousands of protesters stormed the Sri Lankan president’s official residence and set the prime minister’s private residence on fire in Colombo on Saturday as anger intensified over the ...
UK’s Conservative Party looking to speed up leadership contest
The Conservative Party committee overseeing the contest to select British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s replacement will look to whittle it down to two names by July 20, one of its ...
At CIA headquarters, Biden lauds US intelligence for Putin warnings
US President Joe Biden thanked staff at the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency for warning the world about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade Ukraine, and hailed ...
Verstappen on pole for Austria Sprint as Mercedes crash
Formula One leader Max Verstappen handed his Red Bull team a home pole position for Saturday’s sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix after Mercedes rivals Lewis Hamilton and ...
Another year, another new champion as Jabeur and Rybakina face off
When Ons Jabeur and Elena Rybakina meet in Saturday’s Wimbledon final it will be the fifth edition running that a first-time women’s champion will go through the wood-panelled ...
Japanese mourn ex-PM Shinzo Abe a day after his assassination
A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political ...
Blinken meets China’s Wang after leading pressure efforts on Russia
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bali on Saturday after a G20 ministerial meeting on the Indonesian island where the ...
Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla TSLA.O and the world’s richest person, said he was terminating his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter TWTR.N because the ...
Tesla sells record high China-made vehicles in June
Tesla (TSLA.O) in June achieved its highest monthly sales of China-made vehicles since opening its Shanghai plant in 2019, data showed on Friday, as the US carmaker ramped up output ...
Former UK finance minister Sunak bids to replace PM Johnson
British former finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson, three days after helping to launch the cascade of resignations that brought the prime ...
Djokovic hits back to beat Norrie and set up Kyrgios final
Top seed Novak Djokovic set up a blockbuster Wimbledon final against Nick Kyrgios after recovering from a torrid start to overwhelm Britain’s Cameron Norrie 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 on ...
Russia’s Lavrov walks out of G20 as West denounces Ukraine war
G20 foreign ministers called for an end to the war and grain blockade in Ukraine on Friday, as Russia’s top diplomat walked out of a meeting and denounced the ...
US Supreme Court ‘out of control’ on abortion ruling, Biden says
U.S. President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday ...
Sri Lanka police impose curfew, fire tear gas as unrest escalates
Police in Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo imposed a curfew after firing tear gas and using a water cannon on student protesters on Friday ahead of a planned weekend ...
‘UK has made little effort to free men sentenced to death’
Russia’s ambassador to Britain said he was surprised London has not made more of an effort to secure the release of two British citizens sentenced to death for fighting ...
Moscow city councillor gets seven years’ jail for anti-war comment
A Moscow district councillor was jailed for seven years on Friday for criticising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in what a Kremlin-critical lawyer said was the first case of anyone ...
Verstappen aims to hit back with home win for Red Bull
Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen will be chasing his fourth Austrian Grand Prix victory in five years on Sunday as Red Bull seek to return to the top of ...
Lawsuit accuses troubled crypto lender Celsius Network of fraud
A former investment manager at Celsius Network sued the crypto lender on Thursday, saying it used customer deposits to rig the price of its own crypto token and failed to ...
War dominates G20 meeting as Russia chides West’s ‘frenzied’ criticism
G20 host Indonesia urged the group’s foreign ministers on Friday to help end the war in Ukraine, as Russia’s top diplomat accused the West of scuppering a chance ...
Putin warns of long war in Ukraine
Western officials on Friday tried to coax Russia into allowing Ukraine to ship its grain out to the world as the four-month-old war threatened to bring hunger to countries far ...
‘Nobody’s perfect’: German economy, engine of Europe, splutters
Long one of the globe’s economic stars, Germany is on a brink of a reversal of fortune which some fear imperils the prosperity built by its post-war generation.
While ...