The French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has abandoned a visit to a holy site in Jerusalem under French control after armed Israeli police entered the site and briefly arrested two French gendarmes. France has summoned the Israeli ambassador over the incident, the latest of several controversies involving the Eleona sanctuary on the Mount of Olives,…
Packages ride on a conveyor belt during Cyber Monday, one of the company’s busiest days at an Amazon fulfillment center on December 2, 2024 in Orlando, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo | Getty Images Amazon is laying off roughly 200 employees in its North America stores division, the company confirmed. The core retail business, which…
A tip jar at a cafe in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where…
L.A. Wildfires Fighting Fire With Jet Engines Published January 24, 2025 3:00 AM PST Wildfires continue to rampage across L.A. County … but now, there’s a new one-of-a-kind piece of technology created to extinguish dangerous flames with opposing force. Steve Wolf, a former film special effects coordinator and founder of Team Wildfire, tells TMZ ……
Kevin Rudd, Australia’s ambassador in Washington DC, has hit back at “fake” claims an institute he once led received money from USAid, the US foreign aid agency being targeted by Donald Trump. The office of Rudd, a former Australian prime minister and current ambassador to the US, has issued a statement seeking to dispel claims…
Piles of coal at Rizhao port in China’s Shandong Province on Nov. 2, 2021. VCG | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s industrial profits extended declines to a fourth straight month, dropping 7.3% in November from a year earlier, signaling that Beijing’s stimulus measures have yet to meaningfully stem the slide in corporate earnings….
The Chainsmokers’ Drew Taggart Trespasser Falsely Claims ‘I’m Your Wife’!!! Published January 28, 2025 11:11 AM PST The lead singer of The Chainsmokers, Drew Taggart, and his fiancée, Mari Fonseca, got the surprise of their lives over the weekend when they spotted a woman brazenly climbing onto their property and walking right up to the…
Photographer | Collection | Getty Images Italy’s bailed-out Monte dei Paschi di Siena on Friday launched a 13.3 billion euro ($13.95 billion) all-share takeover offer for larger domestic peer Mediobanca. Shares of Monte dei Paschi (MPS) were down 5.74% at 09:43 a.m. London time, with Mediobanca up 6.28%. Offering 23 of its shares for 10…
A family from which women of three generations were killed in the Omagh bombing have spoken about the immeasurable pain caused by the atrocity and said they hope no other family suffers as they have. They were speaking at a public inquiry established to determine whether the attack, the worst in the Troubles in Northern…
A senior doctor in emergency medicine has said “almost every hospital is treating patients in corridors and car parks” after a hospital posted adverts calling for nurses to take on 12-hour “corridor care” shifts. Responding to “very significant pressure” in its A&E department, Whittington hospital in north London posted bank shifts available for A&E nurses,…
