Browsing: World News

Euronews says Italy is set to hold a general election this autumn after President Sergio Mattarella formally dissolved parliament.

Arab News says Russia defended its veto of a UN resolution that would have extended humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million Syrians.

Aljazeera says The United States has reported its first case of polio in nearly a decade after health officials in the state of New York said a patient had tested positive for the disease.

TRT World says An irate Donald Trump demanded to be taken to the Capitol after the supporters he sent laid siege, well aware of the deadly attack and that some in the mob were armed but refusing to call it off.

France24 says Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi won a confidence motion in the upper house Senate on Wednesday, but three main coalition parties refused to take part in the vote, effectively torpedoing his administration.

Euronews says THE European Commission urged member states on Wednesday to reduce their gas use by 15% from August 1 of this year until 31 March 2023 to ensure they can cope in the event of a total gas cut-off from Russia.

Aljazeera says Ranil Wickremesinghe has been sworn in as Sri Lanka’s eighth president by the country’s chief justice.

Arab News says Iraqi authorities said at least nine civilians died in a Turkish artillery attack on Wednesday that hit a village in the Kurdistan autonomous region.

Euronews says HUNGARY has moved to curb the powers of the European Union (EU) Tuesday.

France24 says RECORD HIGH temperatures were registered in 64 different areas around France on Monday as a heatwave peaked in the country, the national weather service confirmed on Tuesday.

Aljazeera says AUSTRALIANS have been urged to work from home and wear masks indoors as the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 nears record levels.

Arab News says SAUDI ARABIA’S King Salman sent a cable of condolences and sympathy to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi for victims of a car crash that killed at least 25.

British man found dead in Florence hotel named as ex-rugby league player – it is reported he died in a sex game gone wrong.

TRT World says THIRTEEN INMATES have been killed and two others wounded in yet another bloody fight in a notorious Ecuadoran prison, law enforcement officials said.

Aljazeera says A MAINLY youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days.

Arab News says JAPAN’S PM Fumio Kishida, received a courtesy call from Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during his visit to Japan.

Euronews says Mario Draghi’s political future hangs in the balance this week, with a key speech and discussion in the Senate potentially deciding whether his government stands or falls.

France24 says France secured promises of new energy supplies from the UAE after talks between President Emmanuel Macron and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan in Paris.

Today’s top EU and European stories dominating the news.

Thousands of anti-racism protesters and political parties pushed back a march by a small group of extreme right-wing German neo-Nazis in the western city of Mainz. 

Aljazeera says the President has declared a state of emergency in the crisis-ridden island nation in an effort to head off unrest ahead of a vote in parliament later this week to elect a new president.

TRT World says FOUR PEOPLE, including a gunman, have been killed at a mall in Indiana state after a man with a rifle opened fire in a food court and an armed civilian shot him, US police said.

Euronews says FIREFIGHTERS continued to battle wildfires raging out of control in France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heatwave.

France24 says ALL EIGHT CREW members were killed when a Ukrainian-operated cargo plane crashed in Greece en route from Serbia to Bangladesh carrying military goods.

Aljazeera news says President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has submitted a letter of resignation to the speaker of Sri Lanka’s parliament, a spokesperson for the speaker said, hours after he fled to Singapore.