World

MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Alberto Nunez Feijoo, leader of the conservative People’s Party (PP), held a fractious live television debate yesterday, ahead of a national election on July 23.

(Reuters) – Torrential downpours unleashed flash floods on the U.S. Northeast yesterday that washed out roadways, overwhelmed rivers, prompted 50 swift boat rescues and killed a woman who was swept away in front of her fiancé, officials said.

(Reuters) – The last three known living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa massacre yesterday decried a judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit seeking reparations for the racist violence in Oklahoma.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The World Bank yesterday named 15 chief executive officers including financiers and asset managers to a group launched by the lender’s president, Ajay Banga, aiming to marshal more private capital to combat climate change and boost investment in developing countries.

(Reuters) – The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is investigating Novo Nordisk’s NOVOb.CO

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – It is a planet astronomers say probably should not even exist.

(Reuters) – Meta Platforms’  Twitter rival Threads crossed 100 million sign-ups within five days of launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday, dethroning ChatGPT as the fastest-growing online platform to hit the milestone.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the longest-serving leader of the Netherlands, shocked the nation today by saying he would quit, a political shake-up that was unthinkable just days ago.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has held Kremlin talks with Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin and his commanders to discuss the armed mutiny Wagner attempted to mount against the army’s top brass, Putin’s spokesman said today.

STANSTED England (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Britain on Sunday, starting a three-nation trip that will be dominated by a NATO summit in Lithuania aimed at showing solidarity with Ukraine in its fight against Russia while not yet accepting Kyiv as a member of the alliance.

(Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey spoke by telephone on Sunday, a day after Ankara angered Moscow by sending five Ukrainian commanders home with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in what Russia called a violation of a prisoner exchange agreement.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Sunday decided that Israel would work to prevent the collapse of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA), but did not offer any concrete steps to do so.

LONDON (Reuters) – A second eight-year-old girl has died after a car crashed into a building at a south London primary school on Thursday, police said on Sunday.

(Reuters) – Colombia’s government has reached an agreement to begin peace talks with a faction of dissident Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels who rejected a 2016 peace agreement, according to a statement.

ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden expressed a desire to see Sweden join NATO “as soon as possible” in a phone call with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in which they discussed Sweden’s bid to become a member of the Western alliance, the White House said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs, Molly Phee, will travel to Addis Ababa on Monday and Tuesday to meet with African leaders and Sudanese civilians on how to end the conflict in Sudan, the State Department said on Sunday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A UN mission of experts arrived in Honduras to examine the establishment of an international anti-corruption mission in the Central American nation, which is plagued by widespread corruption that exacerbates poverty and immigration, Honduran authorities announced Sunday.

(Reuters) – Pope Francis today announced that he would elevate 21 churchmen to the high rank of cardinal, again putting his mark on the group that will one day choose his successor after his death or resignation.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s BBC was questioned by the government today about its handling of an allegation that one of its star presenters paid a teenager thousands of pounds to pose for sexually explicit photos, beginning when they were 17 years old.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said 10 hours of bilateral meetings with senior Chinese officials in recent days were “direct” and “productive” and helped stabilise the often rocky relationship as her four-day Beijing trip ended.