Copper prices rallied Friday above $10,000 per tonne for the first time in two years, propelled by soaring global demand and tight supplies. In early morning trade on the London Metal Exchange, the price of copper breaching the key level for the...
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Pro-Palestinian protests spread to more college campuses in the United States on Thursday as authorities appeared to be running out of patience and police carried out large-scale arrests. Students at some of the country’s most prestigious...
The former head of the Bank of China (BOC) admitted he was guilty of corruption during a trial on Wednesday, state media reported, the latest development in a lengthy crackdown on graft in the country’s financial sector. Liu Liange, who served...
French singer Kendji Girac, who was seriously injured by a gunshot this week, wanted to “fake” his suicide to scare his partner, who was threatening to leave him, prosecutors said Thursday. The 27-year-old former winner of France’s...
Venice on Thursday began charging day-trippers for entry, a world first aimed at tackling mass tourism but opposed by protesters objecting to treating the historic Italian city as a museum. Under a trial scheme, visitors exploring Venice for the day...
A new poll reveals that more than half of Americans, including a significant 42% of Democrats, support mass deportations of illegal immigrants while President Biden’s border issues continue. According to the Axios Vibes survey by the Harris...
Internet users’ public expression of their sexual orientation does not authorise using this data “for the purposes of personalised advertising,” a legal adviser at the EU’s top court said Thursday. Austria’s Supreme...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he plans to visit China in May, in what would be his first trip abroad since re-election as the two forge closer ties. The West has viewed Russia and China with increased anxiety over the past two years...
Global warming caused by fossil fuel emissions “most likely” exacerbated the intense rains that lashed the UAE and Oman last week, causing deaths and widespread flooding, an expert group of scientists said Thursday. Extreme rainfall in...
Ukraine’s agriculture minister offered to resign Thursday after he was named a formal suspect in a multimillion-dollar corruption inquiry. Investigators earlier this week accused Mykola Solsky of illegally seizing land worth more than $7...
Between 80,000 and 100,000 Palestinians have crossed into Egypt from Gaza since the start of the war triggered by Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, the Palestinian ambassador to Cairo said Thursday. Ambassador Diab Allouh told AFP that they...
New security assistance from the United States and elsewhere will help Kyiv regain the initiative on the battlefield, but it will take time and a large-scale Ukrainian offensive is unlikely in the near-term, a US official said Thursday. The previous...
Toomaj Salehi, 33, one of the best-known figures arrested in a crackdown on protests that began in 2022, risks being hanged after the conviction on the sharia charge of “corruption on Earth” by a Revolutionary Court. The verdict, which...
A pair of bears picked the wrong person to mess with Thursday in Japan when they approached a 50-year-old karate practitioner only to be kicked away, police and media said. Masato Fukuda was lightly injured in his encounter with the bears on...
Marine biologists raced Thursday to save more than 100 pilot whales after a mass stranding on an Australian beach, with officials fearing many will have to be euthanised. Western Australia’s Parks and Wildlife Service said 26 of the beached...