london – A “one-in, one-out” deal in which Britain can return some migrants who cross the Channel in small boats back to France came into force on Tuesday, the U.K. government announced. The interior ministry said that British authorities were “operationally ready” and that migrant detentions were expected to begin “within days” following ratification of…
RuPaul’s Drag Race global superstars Violet Chachki and Gottmik are hitting the road with The Knockout Tour, a three-month joint tour, starting on September 12 in Atlanta, GA and running through December 12 in Nashville, TN. To announce these dates and set expectations for the tour — which is reaching 50 cities across the U.S….
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — After decades of inaction and frozen negotiations, the issue of an independent Palestinian state living in peace with Israel returned to the spotlight at a high-level U.N. conference — and France and Saudi Arabia, which spearheaded the effort, are determined to keep up the momentum. But hurdles for a two-state solution…
BANGKOK (AP) — Global shares advanced Monday after Wall Street had its worst day since May following the release of weak U.S. jobs data. France’s CAC 40 added 0.8% in early trading to 7,609.44, while the German DAX rose nearly 1.0% to 23,702.42. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged up 0.4% to 9,108.28. U.S. shares were set…
When Zhang Dayong lay in a pool of blood on a pavement in Rome after being shot six times, few suspected a link to Italy’s storied textile hub of Prato. But a “hanger war” is raging in the city near Florence – turning Europe’s largest apparel manufacturing centre and a pillar of Made in Italy…
In the quest to harness the power of the stars, one of the greatest challenges lies not in mastering fusion, but in finding materials strong enough to contain it. At the heart of a nuclear fusion reactor is an ultra-powerful superconducting magnet, operating at temperatures near absolute zero and under immense magnetic stress. For decades,…
France Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Saturday denounced as “despicable” videos of Israeli hostages held in Gaza posted by Hamas’s armed wing and by another Palestinian Islamist group. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot looks on, during a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Nicosia, Cyprus July 31, 2025.(Reuters) “Despicable, unbearable images of the Israeli…
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United States President Donald Trump has said it will be difficult to make a trade deal with Canada after it announced that it would back Palestinian statehood, following the examples of the United Kingdom and France amid growing international condemnation of Israel’s war on Gaza. “Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood…
The Palestinian death toll in Gaza passed 60,000 on Tuesday. The world’s leading authority on food crises said the “ worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out” in the territory of over 2 million people as starvation deaths rise. And the United Nations said far too little food and other aid was entering the…