Saudi Arabia’s finance minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan has said the Kingdom is seeking to raise $55 billion from a privatization plan.
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The Belarusian journalist, who was arrested after his Ryanair plane was forced to land in Minsk, appeared on state TV.
Portugal is questioning the “logic” of the UK’s decision to move the country from the UK’s green list to the amber travel list from next Tuesday.
Minnesota prosecutors are seeking a 30-year sentence for Derek Chauvin whilst the defence is asking for probation and time served.
NASA’s new administrator, Bill Nelson, has announced two new robotic missions to Venus, during his first major address to employees.
Pot banging protests against Bolsonaro, Brazil’s new Covid deaths. On Wednesday there was almost 100,000 new cases and 2,507 deaths.
The WHO warned of “staggering health needs” across Gaza, after UN and Red Cross officials accessed the damage from Israel’s 11-day attack.
Israel’s opposition leaders have reached a deal to form a coalition government, making way to end Netanyahu 12-years as PM.
Amazon is to expand its Covid testing lab facilities in the UK. The move will benefit employees and UK public health, says Amazon.
Florida’s Republican governor signed a bill barring transgender girls and women from playing on girls teams in public schools.
The remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at an old Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada.
5.2 million people – 91 per cent of the population – in the war-hit Tigray region are in need of emergency food aid.
Activist Stsiapan Latypau stabbed himself in the neck with a pen during a court hearing in Minsk.
Pupils to be offered 100m hours of tuition in catch-up plan after months of school closures and disruption to education.
The UK has announced zero daily Covid deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the first time since the pandemic began.
Americans travel again, highest single day since March 2020 as travel by air and road resumes.
Macron and Merkel demand answers from the US over allegations of spying on European allies.
Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open following her decision to boycott the media.
On Monday Peru’s Covid-19 death toll almost tripled to 180,764, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for Covid-19 variants.
A separate terminal has opened at Heathrow Airport for passengers arriving in the UK from red list countries.
Two people have died and more than 20 injured after a gunman opened fire outside a billiards club in Hialeah, a town to the north of Miami, Florida, the US police said.
Egypt will lift its Covid-19 restrictions from June 1, including the easing of the early closure of shops and restaurants, from Tuesday, the cabinet said.
A Ryanair passenger plane on a flight from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in Berlin on Sunday after a reported bomb threat.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that a proposed new unity government would be “a danger for the security” of the country. He has urged right-wing politicians not to support a deal.