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Oil prices jumped Monday as the UAE came under missile and drone attacks after US warships crossed the Strait of Hormuz

Oil, stocks mixed as US-Iran deal awaits Trump approval

Three dates in Swift's record-breaking 'Eras' tour were cancelled in the summer of 2024

Austrian jihadist jailed for 15 years for Taylor Swift concert attack plan

Gasoline and diesel prices have surged in the United States in the wake of the Iran war

Below estimations

US revises first quarter growth down while inflation climbs

President Donald Trump could soon appear on a bank note -- breaking longheld tradition against putting living presidents on US money

Trump's face could appear on US $250 bill

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told financial leaders in New York that US-Canada economic integration remains crucial

Urging cooperation

Canada PM backs 'fortress North America' ahead of US trade talks

A SANA photograph showing flooding in Syria's Deir Ezzor province

Increased flows

Flooding in north and east Syria as Euphrates level rises

Three people were wounded in the incident at Winterthur's main railway station

'Terrorist' knife attack wounds 3 at Swiss train station: official

A public listing would open SpaceX to a broader and more diverse pool of investors, including individual buyers, while giving existing shareholders an easier path to cash out and realize substantial capital gains

'I will never give up'

Musk defends AI ambitions as IPO reveals trouble

Israel's ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, said his country's mission would no longer have contact with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

António Guterres

Israel freezes out UN chief over sexual violence blacklist

Near Echternach border

Residents warned of asbestos dust two weeks after Bollendorf fire

Outside Rome's Colosseum on Thursday, tourists were struggling to cope with temperatures at 32C

Italy on red alert as France, Portugal beat hottest May day record

US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum (L), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd L) and US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (R) listen to US President Donald Trump (C) weigh options on Iran in a cabinet meeting

US, Iran accuse each other of violating truce after attacks

Legend has it that grinding one's heel on the mosaic bull's testicles at the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II guarantees a return one day to the city

Milan restores bull mosaic's testicles to former glory

A man hangs an Ebola awareness banner in the Kigonze displaced persons camp in Bunia, in the eastern DRC

Boots on the ground

'You are not alone' in Ebola fight, vows DR Congo-bound WHO chief

Parliament voted in Andris Kulbergs (3rd L) as Latvia's new prime minister

'Broad consensus'

Latvia gets new centre-right govt after row over stray Ukraine drones

The number of 16- to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training, so-called 'NEETs', topped one million in the first quarter of the year for the first time since 2013

Growing concern

UK risks a 'lost generation' of jobless young people

Neflix and other streamers are being asked to reinvest part of their German earnings in local productions

Revenue reinvestment

Netflix criticises German plan to make streamers invest more locally

Conflict in Ukraine

Bettel throws Juncker's hat in the ring for EU negotiator role

The Norwegian royal family at a national day event last week

Troubled royals

Norway's Queen leaves hospital amidst mounting fears over princess

A fire broke out overnight in the dormitory of a girls' school in Kenya, killing 16 children

Overnight tragedy

Fire in Kenya girls' school dorm kills 16

French lawmakers Steevy Gustave (visible) and Max Mathiasin embrace after the vote in favour of repealing the slavery legislation

France inches towards symbolic repealing of slavery legislation

According to EU regulators, European consumers are 'very likely to encounter illegal items' on Temu

Popular online retailer

EU fines Temu 200 mn euros over illegal products

Matteo Messina Denaro, head of Sicily's Castelvetrano clan who had six life sentences to his name, died in prison a few months after his arrest at age 61

Italian police seize $232 mn in late mafia boss's assets

A silicon wafer seen magnified through the lens of a microscope

'Immense' leverage: why AI chip workers are demanding more

The West believes Iran is seeking an atomic bomb, but Tehran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful

'From worse to bad'

Iranians lukewarm over internet blackout end

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi hits one of 12 sixes against Sunrisers Hyderabad

'Phenomenal player'

'Six machine' Sooryavanshi, 15, stakes India claim with new stunning knock

'Made in Europe'

FEDIL urges 'intelligent' European preferences, warns against red tape

Infographic showing Scarborough Shoal and other islands and reefs in the disputed South China Sea.

Accused of illegal intrusion

China's military says drove away Dutch warship in South China Sea

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