Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024. GIL COHEN-MAGEN/Pool via REUTERS
War in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved the six-member war cabinet, an Israeli official said, in a widely expected move that came after the departure from government of the centrist former general Benny Gantz.
US President Joe Biden's campaign will target Republican challenger Donald Trump's felony convictions as part of a $50 million ad campaign ahead of the first presidential debate between both candidates on June 27.
Nigel Farage, whose entry into the British election has damaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's already faint hopes of victory, will set out his Reform UK party's policies, saying they should form the opposition to a Labour government.
Campaigning kicked off in France for a snap parliamentary election which opinion polls suggest the far-right National Rally will win, with President Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance coming third, behind a leftwing ticket.
The Kremlin said that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's remarks about talks on deploying more nuclear weapons were an escalation.
An Indian man suspected by the US of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil has been extradited to the United States from the Czech Republic, the Czech justice minister said.
Mining giant Brazil has big ambitions to build a rare earths industry as Western economies push to secure the metals needed for magnets used in green energy and defense and break China's dominance of the supply chain.
The US is as many as 15 years behind China on developing high-tech nuclear power as Beijing's state-backed technology approach and extensive financing give it the edge, a report said.
China's commerce ministry said it has opened an anti-dumping investigation into imported pork and its by-products from the European Union, escalating tensions after the bloc imposed anti-subsidy duties on Chinese-made electric cars.
The world's major central banks were primed for a move that anyone with a credit card or hoping to buy a home or run a business would cheer: A global shift to lower interest rates has fizzled out as inflation proved more persistent than expected.
GameStop's annual meeting is creating a growing buzz on social media among the company's host of avid retail investor fans.
UBS will set aside around $900 million to repay investors in Credit Suisse funds that were linked to collapsed supply chain financing firm Greensill Capital, accounting for 90% of what they are owed.
Weight-loss options for US youth are hard to come by
Jelainie Camacho and Ana Jaramillo at the Holyoke Health Center in Holyoke, Massachusetts. June 11, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
For many US parents seeking help for a child with obesity, the most widely-endorsed treatment is out of reach - and it's not the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy.
Leading medical groups recommend intensive behavioral counseling - 26 hours within one year - to teach children and their families practical ways to eat healthier and move more.
In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theater. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas/File photo
On a stifling summer evening, the actors took to the stage: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped with barbed wire and lit by a floodlight.
The performers were inmates at Greece's maximum-security jail, and so was the audience.
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Tsav 9: Washington says the group, which has ties to Israeli army reservists and Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, has blocked, harassed and damaged aid shipments to Gaza. Food supplies to southern Gaza are at risk because of Israeli military operations, a U.N. official said, and in the north, residents say acute shortages of vegetables, fruit and meat mean they are living only on bread. Traders there are demanding $70 for a kilo of onions and $90 for a kilo of green peppers.
Findings: Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the early stages of the war, and Israel's actions also constituted crimes against humanity because of the immense civilian losses, a U.N. inquiry found. Its reports found that both sides committed war crimes including torture, murder or willful killing, outrages upon personal dignity, and inhuman or cruel treatment.
Quite a shift: A generation of young Europeans that has grown up amid constant crises is seeking new answers and finding them in far-right parties and their populist leaders, as last weekend's European Parliament elections showed. One top issue among many young voters is foreigners in their midst, as some recent videos from Germany with a very unsubtle message demonstrate.
COP29: Five months remain before the latest edition of the U.N. climate summit, and countries cannot agree on the size of the global funding bill for the developing world, let alone how to split the tab. Representatives from recipient nations said it was hard watching wealthy countries pay their standing commitments late while quickly approving new military funding and subsidizing CO2-emitting energy sources.
Politics: Canada's parliamentarians grilled the heads of Canada's big banks over what steps they are taking to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and steer away from fossil-fuel funding. The executives said they are working on it, but they cannot expect results too soon. In the U.S., a congressional committee accused Wall Street firms of colluding with advocacy groups to force companies to shrink their emissions. And activists at the G7 meeting I mentioned above said the summit failed to produce concrete climate commitments.
Abortion opponents' efforts to restrict the use of the drug mifepristone may not be over despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that keeps it on the market with no new restrictions.
It's the roll you don't want: U.S. safety investigators want to know why a Southwest Boeing 737 MAX did a "Dutch Roll" during a flight at 34,000 feet from Phoenix to Oakland last month. The FAA is investigating a Southwest 737 MAX 8 passenger flight that came within about 400 feet of the ocean off the coast of Hawaii after the pilots bypassed a landing attempt in Kauai. Boeing discovered that hundreds of fasteners were incorrectly installed on the fuselages of some undelivered 787 Dreamliners.
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