A European Union court has annulled a ruling by the European Commission that a tax deal between the Luxembourg government and Amazon amounted to illegal state support. The European Commission ordered the US online retailer in 2017 to pay around 250 million euros (£214 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg ... #EUGeneralCourt ... #EUGeneralCourt ... .
Israel has pressed ahead with a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, killing as many as 10 senior Hamas military figures. The country’s defence force also toppled a pair of high-rise towers housing Hamas facilities in air strikes ...Air strikes continued throughout the day, filling the sky with pillars of smoke ... Targets struck..
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Former First Lady Michelle Obama has opened up about her fears over her two daughters facing racism ...Maybe somebody sees the back of their head and makes an assumption,” Obama said. “Like so many parents of Black kids… the innocent act of getting a license puts fear in our hearts,” she added ... SIGN UP ... SIGN UP. From ... .
A group of 57 leading scientists, doctors, and policy experts (including Dr Peter McCullough, seen above) has released a report calling in to question the safety and efficacy of the current Covid-19 vaccines and are now calling for an immediate end to all vaccine programs ... You can read an advanced copy of this manuscript in preprint below ... Abstract.
Israel's president warned of a civil war between the country's Arabs and Jews on Wednesday as fury and fear over shelling exchanges with Palestinian militants in Gaza ignited violence in Israel's... .
The Israeli military is set to approve on Thursday plans for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, as overnight it intensified its strikes on the blockaded strip where militants fired back dozens of rockets ... Lt ... .
By David Shepardson. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing Co on Wednesday won approval from U.S. regulators for a fix of an electrical grounding issue that had affected about 100737 MAX airplanes, clearing the way for their quick return to service after flights were halted in early April, the planemaker said ... The announcement is a relief for U.S ... .
Joe Biden says he spoke to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently battling corruption charges, about the hemorrhaging of violence against Palestinians... "I had a conversation with Bibi Netanyahu not too long ago," Biden told reporters ... Dozens of Israelis have also been wounded ... "I expressed condolences for the loss of life ... 'Harrowing' ... ....
KATHMANDU. A Swiss and an American climber have died on Mount Everest, hiking company officials said on Thursday, the first fatalities on the world’s highest peak this season ... More details were not immediately available ... At least 311 people have died on its slopes ... .
Bitcoin popped back above $50,000 in Asian trade on Thursday, clawing back some of the 17% plunge that followed Elon Musk's tweet that Tesla Inc would stop accepting the digital tokens as payment for its cars ... It recovered about half of that drop early in the Asian session, and last traded about $51,099. MORE FROM THIS SECTIONSee All ... 2 min read ... .
Extraterritorial coercion against exiles and diasporas from authoritarian states is now a global phenomenon ... The toolkit these rulers employ ranges from murder and forced renditions to Interpol listings and passport cancellations, as well as digital surveillance and online harassment ... An Austrian court has since invalidated his extradition ... Sign up ... .
Mali, Maldives. Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, who was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt, was flown to Germany Thursday for treatment, officials said. The 53-year-old democracy pioneer and climate activist was the target of a remote-controlled bomb rigged to a motorbike one week ago in the capital, Male... .
KABUL, May 13 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan's PresidentMohammadAshraf Ghani said Thursday that there is no military solution to the lingering crisis in his country, calling upon the Taliban leadership to give up fighting and support the peace process to find a political settlement. "The people of Afghanistan want peace, we all want peace ... .