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Spain, Ireland and other like-minded EU member states could recognise the State of Palestine on 21 May, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, has said. In an interview on Spanish national radio RNE on Thursday, Borrell was asked to confirm reports in Irish media that Spain, Ireland and a handful of other […]

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said a military investigation is under way into a “disaster” in which 21 soldiers were killed in an attack in central Gaza, the army’s highest death toll from a single incident since the invasion of the Palestinian territory. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments in the […]

– Mariupol – Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city’s Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms. Moscow’s flattening of Mariupol has drawn multiple accusations of war crimes, including over a deadly attack on a maternity ward, and Ukraine has begun a legal reckoning for captured Russian troops. […]

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Monday that the country will reopen its borders to tourists from Feb. 21 after remaining closed for almost two years, ending one of the world’s strictest and longest-running pandemic travel restrictions. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference in Canberra, Australia, Feb. 7, 2022. […]

Engineers and Scientists continued to find new ways to combat COVID-19 in 2021   –   Copyright  Canva  Two years into the pandemic, COVID-19 doesn’t appear to be letting up. Despite successful vaccines, the new Omicron variant is ripping through countries around the world, meaning scientists and engineers still have to find novel ways to combat the virus. Whether it’s […]

  Parents-to-be from Haiti stand at a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border wall after having traveled from South America to the United States, Dec. 10, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. (AFP Photo)  The death of dozens when a truck packed with migrants crashed in Mexico marked a grim toll: More than 4,470 migrants died globally in […]

Mared Foulkes was studying pharmacy at Cardiff University while working part-time at a chemist’s (Picture: Daily Post Wales) A student took her own life after wrongly being told she had failed an exam and could not move on to the third year of her degree, an inquest heard. Mared Foulkes, 21, was studying pharmacy at […]

Commission president Jean-Marc Sauvé attends the publishing of a report by an independent commission into sexual abuse by church officials (Ciase) on October 5, 2021, in Paris. © Thomas Coex, AFP/Pool An investigation into sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church has found that an estimated 216,000 children were victims of abuse by clergy since 1950, […]

Boris Johnson and Somali PM Roble Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Mohamed Roble, Prime Minister of Somalia, at the Global Education Summit in London today. The Prime Minister met with Mohamed Roble, Prime Minister of Somalia, at the Global Education Summit in London today. They discussed the security situation in Somalia and the UK’s […]