Month: June 2026

Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since ...

US secretary of state seeks to reassure UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain over security and US-Iran ceasefire deal The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said no country, including Iran, would be allowed to charge tolls for shipping in the strait of Hormuz as he sought to reassure US allies ...

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⚽ World Cup kick-off time: 4pm EST/9pm BST/6am AEST⚽️ Match gallery | Player guide | Bracketology | Golden Boot Antoine Semenyo was only 10 years old when Ghana came within a Luis Suárez handball of becoming the first African team to reach the semi-finals of a World Cup. The Manchester ...

The temperature topped 34.6 C in Wisley, England, while Scotland and Northern Ireland saw their hottest days of the year. ...

Alan Greenspan died Monday at 100 years old, and the obituaries have been kind. The former Fed chair lived long enough for his reputation to rebound from the 2008 crash, which was partly blamed on deregulation he encouraged. He’s being remembered as the Maestro of monetary policy. His less flattering ...

Liz’s view AI is going to make a lot of things a lot cheaper. But not all goods want to be cheap. They’re called Veblen goods — products whose demand increases alongside their price. The canonical examples are handmade luxury items like Hermès bags. AI is likely to have limited ...

The tech stock rout stretched into a second day and spread globally following a dramatic dip on Wall Street on Monday. South Korean stocks took the biggest hit, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each plunging by more than an eye-popping 12%. Analysts are once again pointing a finger at ...

The News NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is ineligible to run for president, but he’s still picking a fight over the future of the Democratic Party. It starts with three deep-blue House Democratic primaries on Tuesday that Mamdani has thrown himself into. He’s backing state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, former ...

by Alan Greenspan. The former US Fed chair died this week, aged 100. He advised presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush. This 2007 book was “the most unexpectedly charming Washington insider memoir” in a decade, according to The New York Times, both the life story of “a saxophone-playing ...