Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin died on Wednesday at the age of 96 from leukaemia and multiple organ failure, Chinese state media reported. Jiang died at 12:13 local time (0413 GMT) in his hometown of Shanghai, according to the official…
Economic growth in the euro zone could be negative this quarter, but recession is not a given, as some economic data, especially in Germany, has surprised to the upside, Klaas Knot, president of the Dutch central bank and member of…
Japan’s national soccer team squandered an opportunity to seal its ticket to the knockout stages of the World Cup on Saturday after a goal by Keysher Fuller near the end gave Costa Rica a surprise 1-0 victory in a match…
France has shaken off the curse of the defending champions at the World Cup by qualifying for the knockout stages with one game to go before the group stage, and that’s largely because Antoine Griezmann has regained his best level.…
The United States and Iran, diplomatic rivals for more than 40 years, will clash on Tuesday in a vital World Cup match as the two sides play their way to the knockout stages in a fitting finish for the most…
Ecuador’s youth team is close to matching its best performance at a World Cup and needs to take at least one point in Tuesday’s Group A clash with Senegal to reach the knockout stages of the competition for the second…
Portuguese centre-back Danilo Pereira suffered a broken three ribs in training, the team said on Sunday, casting doubt on his participation in the remainder of the World Cup. The Portuguese press reported that the player is ruled out for the…
Robert Lewandowski’s tears after scoring the goal that sealed Poland’s victory over Saudi Arabia on Saturday showed the immense weight he had on his shoulders for never scoring in a World Cup, a streak he finally broke before the vital…
A draft resolution that diplomats say Poland and Canada have prepared ahead of next week’s meeting of the Board of Governors of the UN nuclear watchdog calls on Russia to cease all actions at Ukraine’s nuclear facilities, according to the…
The Russian invasion caused more than $97 billion in direct damage to Ukraine through June 1, but the country could cost nearly $350 billion to rebuild, according to a report released on Friday by the World Bank. , the Ukrainian…
A 41-year-old Spanish soccer fan, who set out to walk to Qatar for the World Cup in November, has disappeared in Iran, a country where strong protests have erupted in the weeks, confirmed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain.…
An art exhibition in Madrid aims to highlight breast cancer and the physical and psychological scars left behind by mastectomies. The Museo Nacional de Arte Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibition, titled “From Skin to Canvas: Another Look at Breast Cancer,” features digital copies…
Aston Villa manager Steven Gerrard has supported attacking midfielder Philippe Coutinho to get his rhythm back, saying the Brazil international needs “a bit of luck” just like his team. Coutinho has not scored or provided an assist in his 11…
Ukrainians cut power consumption and some were without running water on Thursday to ease pressure on the grid and allow repairs to infrastructure destroyed by Russian airstrikes, as kyiv forces advanced toward the city of Kherson. Although Ukraine is conducting…
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned today after her tax cut plan failed, an announcement that rocked financial markets, weakened sterling and sent down the price of UK bonds. UK or gilts. The news will be key in the performance…
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that there is “very narrow margin to avoid genocide” in his home region of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. . Tedros, who was previously Ethiopia’s Minister of Health and Foreign Affairs,…
The French Agriculture Ministry announced on Wednesday that it would strengthen prevention measures after new cases of bird flu were detected on farms in the western Brittany and Pays de la Loire regions. According to the ministry, 17 cases of…
Iran and Saudi Arabia must reopen their embassies to facilitate rapprochement, a top adviser to the Islamic republic’s supreme leader said on Wednesday, amid efforts by Tehran and Riyadh to revive ties. The main Shiite and Sunni Muslim powers in…
The eight most recent Ebola cases reported during the outbreak in Uganda have no known links to current patients, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, raising concern over the spread of the disease. In a briefing note, the WHO…
British Prime Minister Liz Truss is struggling to stay in power after the collapse of her economic program shattered her authority in just over six weeks in office. The image of Truss sitting expressionlessly in parliament on Monday, while her…
Coaches of World Cup qualified teams are required to submit a preliminary roster of players for the tournament by Friday, as they begin the process of finalizing their squads for the tournament in Qatar. Each of the 32 participating countries…
Israel reopened border crossings with Gaza on Monday, following an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with the Islamic Jihad militant group that ended the most serious outbreak of fighting around the volatile Palestinian enclave in more than a year. At least 44 people,…
The European Union has presented a “final” text to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, concluding four days of indirect negotiations between U.S. and Iranian representatives in Vienna, a senior U.S. official said. the European Union. The official said…
Lech Walesa, a former Polish president and leader of the Solidarity union that played a leading role in the fall of communism, is hospitalized with an infection and will remain for at least a week, his spokesman said on Monday.…
Ukraine detained two people working for Russian intelligence services who were planning to assassinate the defense minister and the head of its military intelligence agency, the national security service SBU said on Monday. . The Ukrainian Security Service foiled a…
A U.S. judge sentenced Travis McMichael on Monday to life in prison for committing federal hate crimes in the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was shot jogging through a majority-white neighborhood in Georgia. . Magistrate Lisa…
Western countries pledged on Thursday to contribute more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.55 billion) in cash, equipment and training to bolster Ukraine’s military capabilities in its war against Russia, the minister said. of Danish Defense, Morten Bodskov. The money, pledged…
British households faced fresh restrictions on water use on Friday, with parts of England likely to formally declare drought as the government, environmental authorities and utility companies meet to discuss the impact of the prolonged period of warm temperatures and…
Health authorities have identified the virus that causes polio in New York City sewage, suggesting local transmission, officials said on Friday, urging unvaccinated New Yorkers to get immunized. “The New York City Department of Health and the New York State…
A confrontation at a prison between members of two rival cartels in northern Ciudad Juárez sparked a riot and shootings that killed 11 people, most of them civilians, Mexican authorities said on Friday. Los Chapos, members of the powerful Sinaloa…
Firefighters from across Europe came to the rescue of France on Friday to battle a massive bushfire and parts of England were facing severe drought as successive heatwaves in the continent renewed attention on the risks of climate change. Much…
Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez said on Friday that he will resign from his presidential candidacy and resign next week, after being accused by the United States of significant acts of corruption. “To take care of the movement (…) it…
Manchester City will sign Spanish defender Sergio Gomez from Belgian side Anderlecht, manager Pep Guardiola said on Friday, as the Premier League champions seek to address their lack of depth at the club. left back position. After Ukraine international Oleksander…
Real Madrid players Karim Benzema and Thibaut Courtois and Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne are in the running for the 2021-22 UEFA Player of the Year award after topping a 15-player shortlist. European soccer’s governing body said on Friday.…
The United States singled out Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velázquez on Friday for his involvement in significant acts of corruption, after which the official announced that he would resign his presidential candidacy and his position. The designation was made by…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that the United States cannot allow China to normalize the new level of pressure on Taiwan, which it affirmed with days of military exercises following her visit to the island. “What we saw…
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has reported sighting surveillance aircraft within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) on up to 3 separate occasions this week. NORAD has clarified however that “this activity is not seen as a…
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is in Seoul for meetings with South Korean leaders, said on Friday that he fully supports efforts to completely denuclearize North Korea. “I would like to take this opportunity to express our full support…
Iran said on Sunday that four inmates were killed and 61 injured in a fire that broke out a day earlier at Tehran’s Evin prison, and state television broadcast video apparently showing the calm had settled. returned to the premises.…
Karim Benzema, Federico Valverde and Rodrygo scored on Sunday as Real Madrid beat Barcelona 3-1 to move to the top of the Spanish league. The defeat was a further blow to Barca and their coach, Xavi Hernandez, after they were…
Brazilian striker Richarlison faces an agonizing wait to find out the extent of an injury that forced him out in Tottenham Hotspur’s Premier League victory against Everton on Saturday. Richarlison has established himself as Brazil’s “9” and is the favorite…
The Taiwan issue must be resolved by the Chinese people, President Xi Jinping said at the opening of a major party meeting on Sunday, stressing that Beijing will never give up the right to use the force but will strive…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday it would allocate $1.2 billion to support efforts to end all forms of polio worldwide. Polio is a highly infectious disease that is spread primarily through fecal contamination and kills thousands…
Gunmen shot dead 11 people at a Russian military training camp on Saturday, the Defense Ministry said, in a fresh blow to President Vladimir Putin’s forces since invading Ukraine. The RIA news agency quoted the ministry as saying that another…
Russia opened a criminal investigation after gunmen shot dead 11 people at a military training camp near the Ukrainian border, authorities said on Sunday, as fighting raged in the east. and southern Ukraine. Russia’s RIA news agency said two gunmen…
Ukrainian security agencies issued a joint statement on Friday calling on the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to send representatives to places where Russia is holding Ukrainian prisoners of war. The petition comes after kyiv…
Former Russian state television reporter Marina Ovsyannikova, accused of spreading “fake news” about the war in Ukraine, has fled the country after escaping house arrest, her lawyer said on Monday. Ovsyannikova is currently “under the protection of a European state,”…
President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has set Russia on a shock path that could unseat the Kremlin chief, trigger a civil war or even divide the country, a Russian diplomat who has said resigned because of the war. Boris…
German intelligence chiefs warned on Monday that China could use critical infrastructure holdings as leverage to pursue political objectives, amid a debate in Berlin over whether to let the shipping company China Cosco invests in the port of Hamburg. The…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media on Friday that the “nuclear weapons issue is a hoax,” responding to a Washington Post report that FBI agents sought documents on nuclear matters in a search of his home in…
UN humanitarian projects face an unprecedented funding shortfall this year, with just a third of the required $48.7 billion secured so far, as global needs outstrip pledges. contributions, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…
A European Union proposal to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal “may be acceptable if it provides guarantees” on key Tehran demands, state news agency IRNA said on Friday, citing a high-ranking Iranian diplomat. The EU said on Monday it…
North Korea’s foreign ministry on Sunday criticized the United Nations secretary-general’s recent comment about his support for the complete denuclearization of the North, calling the remarks lacking in impartiality and fairness. North Korea’s state news agency KCNA released a statement…
The British government said on Friday that parts of southern, central and eastern England have officially gone into drought status, following a prolonged period of hot and dry weather. “All water companies have assured us that essential supplies remain safe,”…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX that could lead to the temporary use of its launchers after the Ukraine conflict blocked access. from the West to Russia’s Soyuz rockets. Private US competitor…
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss leads rival Rishi Sunak by 22 percentage points in the bid to become the country’s next prime minister, a poll showed on Saturday. by Opinium Research among members of the Conservative Party. In a sample…
A lawyer for former U.S. President Donald Trump signed a statement in June saying all classified material stored in boxes at the Mar-a-Lago residence had been returned to the government. The New York Times reported Saturday. The declaration was signed…
Ukraine is targeting Russian soldiers firing on or using it as a firing base at an occupied nuclear power plant in the south of the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. Ukraine and Russia have traded accusations over multiple…
The seizure of classified U.S. government documents at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property highlights the ongoing national security concerns raised by the former president, as well as the home he dubbed the Winter White House, according to security experts. Trump is…
Several regions of China, including the major southwestern city of Chongqing, endured temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius on Saturday as the country’s national observatory maintained a red alert for extreme heat. In Zhejiang, home to many factories and exporters, a…
– In an interview just weeks before he was stabbed and seriously injured by an attacker in New York state, writer Salman Rushdie said his life was now “relatively normal”, having lived in hiding for years due to death threats.…
An official with the Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said on Saturday that the group did not have any additional information about the stabbing attack on novelist Salman Rushdie. “We don’t know anything about this issue so we won’t comment,”…
Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran ordered his death in 1989 for his writing, was stabbed in the neck as he was about to give a lecture in New York state. , according to…
Ali Hasan Baqai and Syed Abid Baqai, brothers separated for 75 years by the partition of India and Pakistan, speak with their families by video call, with words and tears that unite them but without hope of reunion. Thousands of…
Real Madrid will have to rotate their squad more to keep players fresh with less than 100 days to go until the World Cup, manager Carlo Ancelotti said on Saturday. The Italian coach is concerned about what the state of…
Supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have demanded early elections, while his opponents, backed by Iran, have said last October’s vote should be respected. Thousands of Sadr supporters prayed outside parliament in a show of support for the populist leader,…
One person was killed and dozens were injured when strong winds caused part of the main stage of a dance music festival near the Spanish city of Valencia to collapse early on Saturday, services reported. regional emergencies. Other infrastructure was…
Los agentes del FBI que allanaron la casa del expresidente Donald Trump en Mar-a-Lago retiraron 11 conjuntos de documentos clasificados, incluidos algunos marcados como altamente secretos, dijo el viernes el Departamento de Justicia, que reveló que tiene causas para creer…
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema is among 30 nominees for the Ballon d’ Or , France Football magazine announced on Friday, in a list that does not include Lionel Messi. The French international has had an incredible season with Real Madrid, scoring…
Russian and Ukrainian forces are engaged in heavy fighting around two towns in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region, while kyiv came under attack by Russian drones early on Monday, authorities said. Fighting was heavy this weekend in Donetsk and Luhansk, which…
Eight inmates died in a fire at Tehran’s Evin prison over the weekend, Iran’s judiciary said on Monday, in an incident that has increased pressure on a Government already facing protests over the death of a woman in police custody.…
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest hit a record in the first seven months of the year, according to preliminary government data on Friday, just before the traditional peak of the annual burning season. Government satellite data shows that between January…
Atalanta defender Jose Palomino’s “B” sample has tested positive for a banned substance, the Italian anti-doping organization said on Friday. The 32-year-old Argentine was provisionally suspended by Italian authorities last month after testing positive for a metabolite of clostebol, a…
British MPs will try to oust Prime Minister Liz Truss this week despite a Downing Street warning that it could trigger a general election, the Daily Mail reported. More than 100 MPs from the ruling Conservative Party are prepared to…
European Union foreign ministers are expected to agree a mission to train 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers starting next month and additional funding of 500 million euros for arms supplies to kyiv when they meet on Monday in Luxembourg. The ministers are…
The Chinese military must move faster to become a world-class fighting force. It is one of the statements by Xi Jinping, Chinese president, at the party congress this past weekend. Xi urges speeding up building a world-class army. “We must strengthen our…
As monkeypox continues to affect gay and bisexual men in dozens of countries around the world, at-risk Mexicans travel abroad to receive vaccines they say their government doesn’t know about. has bothered to put at your disposal. Mexico ranks ninth…
Britain’s political and economic turmoil has been met with little-disguised satisfaction among pro-European and left-wing politicians abroad, with some commentators drawing parallels to chaotic Italy. Britain’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt unveiled a series of budget measures on…
British police are investigating an apparent assault on a protester who was recorded being beaten by several men after dragging him inside the Chinese consulate compound in Manchester during a demonstration against President Xi Jinping. In video footage released by…
The Shevchenko district in the center of the Ukrainian capital was rocked by explosions for the second time in a week during the city’s busiest hours on Monday, and Mayor Vitali Klitschko said several buildings residences were damaged. Several explosions…
French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé, who gained international recognition with a series of more than 100 drawings for the covers of The New Yorker magazine, has died at the age of 89, his biographer said. , quoted by the AFP news…
Argentine club Estudiantes de La Plata was eliminated from the Copa Libertadores quarterfinals on Thursday after suffering an agonizing 1-0 loss at home to Athletico Paranaense with a goal from Vitor Roque to the minute 96. Paranaense, which a week ago equalized…
A delegation of US lawmakers arrived in Taiwan on Sunday for a two-day trip during which they will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen, the second high-level group to visit the island in amid heightened military tensions with China. Beijing, which…
A man died in an apparent suicide early on Sunday after crashing his car into a barricade near the U.S. Capitol and firing shots into the air, police said. As the man got out of the wrecked vehicle, it was…
At least 41 people were killed and 45 injured in a fire inside a church in the Egyptian city of Giza on Sunday, two security sources told Reuters. An electrical fire broke out shortly before 9 a.m. (0700 GMT) during…
The defense of Brittney Griner, the American basketball star sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia on drug charges, appealed her conviction for drug possession and trafficking on Monday. Griner was sentenced on August 4 in a verdict that…
Scottish police said on Sunday they are investigating a report of an “online threat” made to writer JK Rowling after she tweeted her conviction for the Salman Rushdie stabbing. The Harry Potter creator said she felt “very bad” after hearing…
Pope Francis said on Sunday the war in Ukraine had diverted attention from the problem of world hunger and called for urgent food aid to avert a looming famine in Somalia. “The people of this region, already living in very…
Salman Rushdie, the acclaimed author who was hospitalized with serious injuries on Friday after being repeatedly stabbed at a public appearance in New York state, is no longer on a ventilator and his condition is improving, his agent said on…
Russia should agree to the implementation of a demilitarized zone around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine and allow international representatives to assess its security, the White House press secretary said on Thursday. Karine Jean-Pierre. The plant, the…