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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, has said that Israel had definitively barred it from delivering aid to northern Gaza, where the threat of famine is highest. 

According to the beneficiary, Rolls-Royce, Aukus funding will help create more than 1,000 new jobs in Derby. The project will see the construction of new office space as well as manufacturing facilities.

Spirit Aerosystems holds a significant presence in Northern Ireland, particularly in the production of wings for the Airbus A220. It stands as one of Northern Ireland’s foremost manufacturing entities, boasting a workforce exceeding 3,000 employees.

Ukraine claims to have targeted two landing ships, a communications centre, and other infrastructure utilised by Russia’s Black Sea fleet near annexed Crimea. The Ukrainian general staff announced the destruction of the Yamal and Azov ships.

The UK government is set to link cyber-attacks – in which personal details of millions of voters were accessed – to China. The attacks on the Electoral Commission took place in August 2021 but were only revealed last year. 

Four men have been charged in Russia for the deadly Moscow concert attack, where 137 people were killed. Three men were marched into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a wheelchair. All were charged with committing an act of terrorism. 

Reddit said on Wednesday that it had priced its shares at $34 each, a figure near the top end of the marketed range. By the end of Thursday’s trading session, the stock had climbed to $50.44, thereby valuing the firm at over $9 billion (£7.1 billion).

Canada is planning to impose limits on the number of temporary residents it lets into the country for the first time. Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced on Thursday plans to gradually decrease the number of temporary residents admitted over the next three years, starting with an initial cap set for September. These limits will affect international students, foreign workers, and asylum seekers.

After eight years since formally applying to join the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Balkan nation, is set to commence negotiations for EU membership. Last week, the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, recommended initiating talks, a proposal that has now received approval from EU leaders.

According to Ukraine’s air force, 31 missiles launched by Russia were intercepted over Kyiv overnight. The attack resulted in at least 17 injuries, including one child, with four individuals currently hospitalised due to falling debris, as reported by authorities.

The United States has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of monopolising the smartphone market and stifling competition. The lawsuit, filed by the Justice Department, says that Apple exploited its dominance over the iPhone app store to lock in both customers and developers.

Robinho, a former Brazilian football star, has been arrested and will start his nine-year prison term for a rape conviction. This sentence stems from his involvement in the gang rape of an Albanian woman at a Milan nightclub in 2013, a crime for which he was found guilty in Italy two years prior.

A court in Brazil has ruled that former Manchester City and Real Madrid forward Robinho must serve a nine-year prison sentence for rape in his home country.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Middle East discussing post-war plans to govern and secure Gaza. His talks with Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia and then Egypt will focus on what the US calls “an architecture for lasting peace”.

Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, has announced his immediate resignation as party leader and plans to step down as taoiseach once his successor from Fine Gael is appointed.

Portugal set for centre-right minority government The President of Portugal has extended an invitation to centre-right politician Luís Montenegro to…

The Brazilian government has announced the recovery of numerous furniture pieces that were previously reported missing from the official presidential residence when President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva assumed office in January of the previous year.

Angela Chao, a prominent figure in the shipping industry, tragically lost her life last month during an incident at a Texas ranch, according to authorities.

In Haiti, police have fatally shot at least three individuals while stopping an assault on the nation’s central bank. An employee informed AFP that a “group of criminals” targeted the Bank of the Republic of Haiti (BRH) on Monday, resulting in up to four casualties and one guard being wounded.

In France’s largest cyberbullying case yet, 28 people have been sent to jail for up to 18 months for harassing an influencer. The judges found them guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, prompted by a campaign led by the French rapper Booba against “thieving influencers.”

A federal appeals court has frozen the enforcement of Texas’s contentious immigration law, which is among the strictest of its kind enacted by a US state in recent history.

A South Korean-flagged tanker, the Keoyoung Sun, has capsized off the west coast of Japan, leading to the rescue of at least eight sailors, while three remain missing.

Scientists say they have, using Crispr gene-editing technology, been able to eliminate HIV from infected cells. The Nobel Prize-winning technology works like scissors, but at the molecular level, cutting DNA so “bad” bits can be removed or inactivated. 

In a recent talk with the BBC, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Gaza’s two million people are experiencing “severe levels of acute food insecurity.” 

West condemns Russian election and have strongly criticized the outcome of Russia’s presidential election.