Day: August 13, 2026

Former PM of Israel calls events ‘concerted and meticulous attempt at ethnic cleansing’ against Palestinians Israeli troops have forced two Palestinian families to leave their besieged West Bank homes, the day after a top Israeli commander personally promised he would end a violent settler campaign to drive them out. Israeli ...

Multiple fires burned across the West Midlands and destroyed homes there. ...

Liz’s view There’s always money in the sports team. Mark Walter controls a vast financial empire and is under federal investigation for undisclosed related-party transactions between its interlocking parts. Unwinding those transactions will require him to raise billions of dollars. Most people in that situation would look to sell their ...

The News A fresh cash injection from the World Bank’s private investment arm will help Africa’s largest ecommerce vendor absorb shocks spurred by ongoing geopolitical crises in the Middle East and meet profit targets over the next year, the company’s chief executive told Semafor. New York-listed Jumia raised $50 million ...

by Philip Hensher. In this historical telling of an art form that’s seen a slow decline in popularity, Hensher details the evolutionary scramble that motivated writers and publishers to do justice to the medium’s name: find something . Hensher rehashes centuries of publishing-house drama with an investigative eye, evaluating famous ...

The Scoop AstraZeneca’s planned $400 billion deal with Bristol Myers Squibb triggered worries at the UK government’s highest levels, prompting outreach that helped contribute to the collapse of the deal, according to people briefed on the deal. Varun Chandra, the UK’s top business envoy and an adviser to Prime Minister ...

Netflix co-founder and former CEO Reed Hastings says AI could unleash a new wave of “creative destruction” as companies use rapidly improving technology not just to cut costs, but to challenge competitors and build new businesses. In this episode of , Hastings notes that AI has been getting “roughly twice ...

It is not enough now for war to kill, it must eradicate a people’s cherished and precious heritage too Wars may not take summer holidays, but they do sometimes see exhaustion. As drones race back and forth across Ukraine and the strait of Hormuz, a grim stalemate seems to have ...

Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition The north may not remember, but 9 August this year marked the 12th anniversary of the police killing of Michael Brown Jr in Ferguson, Missouri. That day, the US representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reassured an ABC news ...

One of the most famous teams in the world is about to change hands for the second time in less than a year for more than $12bn. Will anyone push back? One of the most brutal lessons we must learn as fans is that the team we shed blood, sweat ...