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Pope Leo puts focus on prisoners in first papal visit to a Spanish jail

The Brians 1 penitentiary, built in 1991 about 40 km (25 miles) outside Barcelona, currently houses around 1,000 inmates International News via Reuters: Pope Leo, who...

UK to consider easing steel tariff plan after industry warnings, Sky News says

The report said the Department for Business and Trade would be holding talks with industry groups this week on proposals that would exclude a...

Thames Water to pay $1 billion under creditor takeover deal, FT reports

The utility would avoid some new penalties over four years in return for £700 million investor funding to improve assets International News via Reuters: UK's Thames...

Sterling steady as investors weigh U.S.-Iran peace prospects

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had carried out missile and drone attacks on U.S. military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain on Wednesday in...

Oil prices fall to seven-week low as Iran and Israel halt attacks

Brent futures fell $4.30, or 4.6%, to $89.95 a barrel at 12:38 p.m. EDT (1638 GMT) International News via Reuters: Oil prices fell about 5% on...

Trump says Iran downed Apache helicopter, US must react

He said the two U.S. pilots involved in the incident were both safe and uninjured International News via Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday...

Meta ordered by EU to allow rival AI chatbots back on WhatsApp for free

The European Commission's decision to issue an interim measure against Meta followed complaints from The Interaction Company of California, developer of the Poke.com AI...

NASA taps US, Italian astronauts for Artemis mission with SpaceX, Blue Origin mooncraft

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman at a ceremony in Houston named U.S. astronauts Andre Douglas, Frank Rubio and Randy Bresnik and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano...

Northern Ireland police appeal for calm after ‘barbaric’ knife attack sparks anger

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the incident as "sickening" after video of the attack, which took place in north Belfast late on Monday...

Pope’s visit to Canary Islands puts focus on treatment of migrants

In a first trip by a pope to the archipelago, beginning on Thursday, Leo will visit the port of Arguineguin on Gran Canaria, which...

Candidates for UN’s top job urge its renewal and bolstering human rights

Four of the five candidates to succeed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who completes his second five-year term at the end of this year, laid out...

UK’s FTSE 100 hits over three-week low as banks, energy stocks sag

The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed 1.4% lower at 10,227.33 points, its weakest close since May 15 International News via Reuters: Britain's blue-chip FTSE 100 hit...
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