Opinion polls give Labour around a 20-point lead. REUTERS/Maja Smiejkowska |
- Britons began voting in a parliamentary election that is expected to bring Keir Starmer's Labour Party to power, sweeping away Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives after 14 often turbulent years.
- US President Joe Biden vowed to stay in the 2024 presidential race during conversations with campaign staff and meetings with Democratic lawmakers and governors, amid calls for him to drop out after his shaky debate performance last week.
- Donald Trump's campaign and some of his allies have launched a pre-emptive political strike on Vice President Kamala Harris, moving swiftly to try to discredit her amid talk that she might replace Biden at the top of the ticket.
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- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene his security cabinet to discuss new Hamas positions on a ceasefire deal in Gaza, a source in Netanyahu's office said, as fighting in the enclave raged.
- Hurricane Beryl thrashed Jamaica with heavy winds and rain, killing at least one person after forging a destructive, water-soaked path across smaller Caribbean islands.
- Amid fears of a broader war, Congo's fight with Rwanda-backed rebels is being hampered by mismanagement and low morale according to officers.
- Chinese President Xi Jinping urged members of a regional security club to resist external meddling, while President Vladimir Putin was due to speak about creating a new Eurasian security system at the group's annual meeting.
- Ukraine's military said its troops had pulled back from part of Chasiv Yar in the eastern Donetsk region, a day after Russia said its forces had taken control of a district in the strategic town.
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- The European Union will impose tariffs of up to 37.6% on imports of electric vehicles made in China, EU officials said, ratcheting up trade tension with Beijing. What happens next in the EU investigation into Chinese EVs?
- Tesla's best-selling Model Y was included in a list of electric and plug-in hybrid models that a local government in China can purchase as a service car, according to the official Chinese media outlet the Paper.
- For more than four months, US envoys delivered increasingly shrill warnings to Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International to scrap a deal they said had links to one of Russia's most powerful oligarchs. In May, Washington's patience snapped.
- Bolivian state energy firm YPFB is looking to improve conditions for investment in the country's flagging oil and gas sector and seeking help from Russia to overcome recent fuel shortages, the head of the company told Reuters.
- Telecom equipment maker Ericsson has recorded another billion-dollar impairment charge for its acquisition of cloud communications firm Vonage in 2021, sending its shares down 2% in early trade.
- Switzerland's pricing supervisor has put UBS under observation following its takeover of Credit Suisse, the regulator said.
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Feeding Gaza: Traders run gauntlet of bullets, bombs and bribes |
Commercial food trucks are seen near a checkpoint near Hebron. May 28, 2024. REUTERS/Mussa Qawasma/File Photo |
Mohammed describes a delivery job from hell. "I get screwed on every shipment," the Gazan trader told Reuters. He said he has to fork out more than $14,000 for each truck of food he brings into the besieged enclave to pay sky-high transport costs, bribes to middlemen and protection from looters. That's up from $1,500-$4,000 before the war began in October. "It's barely worth my while. But I need food, my neighbors need food, the whole of Gaza needs food." |
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An undated artist's impression of members of the extinct archaic human species called the Denisovans. Xia Li/Handout via REUTERS |
Thousands of bone fragments discovered in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China are offering rare insight into the lives of Denisovans, the mysterious extinct cousins of Neanderthals and our own species, showing they hunted a wide range of animals from sheep to woolly rhinoceros in this high-altitude abode. |
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