Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak – Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Joe Biden called Rishi Sunak “Mr President” as they sat down for talks on the first visit by the Prime Minister to the White House. The US President greeted Mr Sunak with the words “well, Mr President…”, before catching himself and joking “I promoted you there”. Mr … Read more
Five people were killed in a shootout Thursday in an Arab town in northern Israel, police said, the latest in a wave of criminal violence tearing Palestinian communities across the country. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a gunman arrived at a car wash in the town of Yafa an-Naseriyye, near the city of Nazareth, … Read more
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2019. (Jorge Silva/Pool/File Photo/Reuters) Kim Yo Jong, 35, has increasingly become the face of North Korea’s secretive and combative regime. Dictator Kim Jong Un’s younger sister led the state delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. She met then-President … Read more
GENEVA (Reuters) – The Israeli government’s proposed judicial overhaul poses a threat to Palestinians, an independent body set up by the United Nations said on Thursday, adding to foreign scrutiny of the reforms now on hold. The proposals, which would limit some powers of the Supreme Court and increase the government’s grip on judicial appointments, … Read more
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A local official says at least 13 people have died and 21 have been injured in clashes at a United Nations site in South Sudan for the protection of displaced civilians. Fighting broke out on Thursday morning at the site of Malakal between members of the Shilluk and Nuer ethnic … Read more
(Views expressed here are those of the author, columnist for Reuters) By Peter Apps LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) – As Lithuania prepares to host the NATO summit next month, the government in Vilnius knows exactly what it wants – a tripling of NATO forces led by the Germany in the country to deter any Russian … Read more
Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit means for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest information Boris Johnson has told Jacob Rees-Mogg to be a ‘pain in the back’ for Rishi Sunak amid a Brexit row, Guto Harri has claimed. The … Read more
(Bloomberg) – Governor Ron DeSantis presided over an eye-catching period of growth for Florida’s $1.1 trillion economy. He’s betting the push can help him get into the White House, even if more Sunshine State workers are left behind. Bloomberg’s Most Read Hiring has boomed and real estate values have soared in Florida during the pandemic, … Read more
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Russia on Thursday denied Ukrainian accusations that it supported pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and discriminated against Tatars and Crimean Ukrainians, blaming Kiev instead of ” blatant lies” before the highest court of the United Nations. Ukraine has asked the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order Russia … Read more
Jacob Rees Mogg Boris Johnson has given Jacob Rees-Mogg ‘carte blanche’ to make life difficult for Rishi Sunak and the Treasury over Brexit, his former No 10 communications chief has claimed. Guto Harri says the former prime minister was warned Mr Sunak, his then-chancellor, had ‘gone native’ to the Treasury amid growing frustrations over the … Read more