There was mixed reaction to Israel’s deadly attack on the Gaza Strip and Palestinian rocket fire in response, with Israel and its allies defending the air raids and those supporting the besieged territory denouncing the violence. Below is global reaction to Friday’s deadly air raids […]
Israel’s attack on Gaza on Friday was weeks in the making, a deliberate act to gain legitimacy with its public, say Palestinian observers, as Israel braces for new elections in November. On Friday, Israel launched missiles throughout the besieged Palestinian enclave, killing 10 people, including […]
Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud in a countersuit over his aborted $44bn deal for the social media company, which he claimed held back necessary information and misled his team about the true size of its user base. The countersuit by the billionaire and Tesla […]
Armenia and Azerbaijan are blaming each other for renewed fighting near the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The area is recognised as part of Azerbaijan, but is mostly controlled by ethnic Armenians. Two Karabakh troops and an Azerbaijani soldier were killed in a district under the […]
Israeli air raids on Friday killed at least 10 people, including a commander of the Islamic Jihad group, as fears of an all-out war on Gaza again gripped the besieged Palestinian territory. Multiple blasts could be heard and seen throughout Gaza. Israeli reconnaissance drones could […]
Red-hot US jobs data for July may have calmed concerns about a recession but it also raised the risk of another 75 basis point increase from the Federal Reserve in September. US employers added 528,000 jobs in July, blowing past all estimates, and the unemployment […]
Canada has experienced a sharp rise in hate crimes targeting religion, sexual orientation and race since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released this week by Statistic Canada. Canada, which prides itself as a diverse and welcoming country for immigrants and refugees, […]
Washington, DC, the US – In the basement of a church, a short walk from the US Capitol Building, Daniella rummages through a pile of donated clothing and picks out a pair of yellow pyjamas that appear to be her size. The 23-year-old Venezuelan and her […]
A lightning strike killed two people and critically injured two others near the White House in Washington, DC late on Thursday, local authorities have said. The Washington Metropolitan Police Department said James Mueller, 76, and Donna Mueller, 75, of Wisconsin, died of their injuries after […]
Canada’s economy unexpectedly lost jobs for the second month in a row in July after a year-long boom, but analysts predicted that this would not stop the Bank of Canada from raising interest rates to fight inflation. Statistics Canada on Friday reported that 30,600 positions […]
