Pound tumbles, gilts rally after BoE nods at rate cut ahead
The pound fell, while UK government bond prices rallied on Thursday after the Bank of England kept interest rates unchanged but sigalled the economy was moving in the right direction ...
Labour’s Starmer urges people to leave Princess of Wales alone
British opposition Labour party leader Keir Starmer urged people on Thursday to leave Kate, the Princess of Wales, alone after she has become the focus of speculation, rumour and bizarre ...
Fighting rages at Gaza’s Shifa hospital
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo on Thursday for talks with Arab officials to push for a ceasefire in Gaza, after Israel‘s prime minister told ...
Fed sees three rate cuts in 2024 but a more shallow easing path
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday recent high inflation readings had not changed the underlying “story” of slowly easing price pressures in the US as the central bank ...
EU leaders to discuss using profits from Russian assets to arm Ukraine
European Union leaders will on Thursday discuss a plan to use billions of euros in profits from frozen Russian financial assets to buy arms for Ukraine as they try to ...
Satellite images show 35% of Gaza’s building destroyed, UN says
Satellite images analysed by the United Nations Satellite Centre show that 35% of the Gaza Strip’s buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the Israel offensive in the Palestinian enclave.
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Israeli army: 50 Palestinian gunmen killed in fighting at Gaza’s Shifa hospital
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it killed more than 50 Palestinian gunmen over the past day in fighting around the Gaza Strip’s Shifa hospital.
The military said it ...
Russia launches largest missile attack on Kyiv in weeks (Update)
Russia staged its largest missile attack in weeks on Kyiv and the surrounding region on Thursday, injuring at least 17 people and damaging schools, residential buildings and industrial facilities, officials said.
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Saudi Arabia plans $40 bln push into artificial intelligence
Saudi Arabia’s government plans to create a fund of about $40 billion to invest in artificial intelligence, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing three people briefed on the ...
Easing UK inflation keeps BoE on track for rate cuts later in 2024
British inflation slowed in February, keeping the Bank of England on track to start cutting interest rates in the months ahead and offering some better economic news to Prime Minister ...
Washington pressures Austria’s Raiffeisen to drop Russian tycoon deal
The United States is pressing Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, to drop plans to buy a 1.5 billion euro ($1.6 billion) industrial stake of a Russian ...
Dutch providing Ukraine with F-16 ammunition, drones, minister says
The Netherlands is providing Ukraine with 350 million euros for F-16 fighter jet ammunition and advanced reconnaissance drones, Dutch Defence Minister Kajsa Ollongren announced in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Speaking to Reuters ...
Netanyahu tells Republicans Gaza war will continue, days after Schumer speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S. Republican senators on Wednesday that Israel will continue its efforts to defeat Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, senators told ...
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar unexpectedly quits
Leo Varadkar said on Wednesday he would step down as Ireland’s prime minister in a surprise move, saying the country’s coalition government would stand a better chance of ...
UK plan to deport refugees to Rwanda to be delayed
The passage of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s contentious bill to deport refugees to Rwanda may be delayed until at least next month after the upper house of parliament ...
US strains with Israel show as Blinken tours Middle East
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, launching a tour of the Middle East to try to secure a ceasefire in the Gaza war ...
UN says Russia consolidates control of occupied Ukraine with ‘climate of fear’
Russia is illegally consolidating its control over occupied Ukrainian territory by creating a “climate of fear” with practices such as arbitrary detention, killings and torture, the head of a U....
Dani Alves to be freed on bail after rape conviction
Brazilian football player Dani Alves can be released from jail on a one million euro bail while he appeals his rape conviction, after serving about a quarter of his four-and-a-half-year ...
It’s a boy! Athens zoo welcomes birth of rare pygmy hippo
A rare and endangered pygmy hippopotamus has been born in Athens’ Attica Zoological Park for the first time in 10 years, delighting conservationists.
A lack of male pygmy hippos in captivity ...
UK to introduce bill to phase out smoking among young people
The British government will introduce a bill in parliament on Wednesday to fulfill its promise to phase out smoking among young people by banning tobacco sales for future generations.
The ...
Russia says EU frozen assets plan is theft
Russia on Wednesday said a proposal by European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell to take 90% of revenues from Russian assets frozen in Europe and transfer them to buy weapons ...
Trump slammed for saying Jews who vote for Democrats hate their religion, Israel
–Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump drew outrage from the White House, Democrats and leaders of Jewish groups for saying Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats hate their religion ...
Biden credits Christodoulides for ‘Amalthea’ initiative
The leadership of President Nikos Christodoulides towards implementation of the humanitarian sea corridor to Gaza was highlighted in a letter by the US president.
The letter from President Joe Biden ...
Tanker capsizes off coast of Japan, seven deaths confirmed, media reports
A South Korean-flagged chemical tanker has capsized off the coast of Yamaguchi prefecture in western Japan, with seven deaths confirmed, public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday, citing the coastguard.
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