Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that in order for Europe to avoid conflicts and be safe it must increase its defence capabilities, and he repeated his call for the construction of a common European air defence system. In the face of the conflict in Ukraine, Poland is strengthening its defence capabilities, allocating over 4% of its Gross Domestic Product. Speaking at the European Economic Congress, a meeting of politicians and business figures in Katowice, Tusk said EU countries should take joint action to increase spending on defence by at least 100 billion euros ($107 billion).
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Families of hostages held in Gaza have urged the United States and other governments with citizens among the captives to pressure Israel to strike a deal with Hamas for their return.Hostage families have been among those pressing through repeated protests for Israel to reach a deal with Hamas to bring home the captives.
If you are cutting flowers from your garden, do so in the morning when stems are the most hydrated, then immediately place them into a container of water. Just as it does food, refrigeration keeps flowers fresher longer.
A Russian court confirmed Tuesday that U.S. soldier Gordon Black would be held in custody for at least two months after he was arrested on theft charges in Vladivostok.
The Australian government will boost the number of skilled workers in the housing sector in next week's national budget, spending A$90.6 million ($59.76 million) on free training and making it easier for skilled construction workers to migrate, officials said. Rising rents, interest rate hikes and surging living costs in the past few years have inflamed what was already among the world's least affordable housing rental markets, where record numbers of people can no longer afford to buy after a surge in house prices. "Our government knows that building more homes is the best way to address Australia’s housing challenges, which is why we have an ambitious national target to build 1.2 million homes," minister for housing, Julie Collins, said in a statement.
The upbeat forecast is the latest positive sign for the industry after earnings of chip firms including NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments showed that demand was picking up, aided by orders from the industrial sector. "Pockets of the semiconductor industry" have started to emerge from inventory corrections, GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield said in a statement. GlobalFoundries — the world's third-largest contract chipmaker — had won $1.5 billion in subsidies from the U.S. government earlier this year, which it plans to use for the construction of a new semiconductor production facility in Malta, New York and expand existing operations there and in Burlington, Vermont.
The Czech Constitutional Court has struck down a legal requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery before they are able to officially complete their transition, the court said on Tuesday. The move brings the central European country in line with most members of the EU and was welcomed by human rights activists. Under current law, Czech transgender people have to undergo sex organ surgery and sterilisation, leaving them unable to reproduce, before officially completing their transition.
The United States has repatriated 11 US citizens, including five minors, as well as the sibling of one of those minors, from northeast Syria in what Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the “largest single repatriation” of Americans from that region to date.
France on Tuesday accused Iran of employing a policy of state hostage-taking and blackmail, as it called for the release of a French couple held in jail for the last two years."France condemns this policy of state hostage-taking and this constant blackmail by the Iranian authorities," the French foreign ministry said in a statement.
At least six people have died and 48 so far unaccounted for after a multi-story building collapsed Monday afternoon in the South African city of George, officials said Tuesday.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma is facing an attempt to oust him from leadership positions in his new party, state broadcaster SABC reported on Tuesday, three weeks before an election in which he is expected to attract significant support. One of the most divisive figures in South Africa, Zuma was president from 2009 until 2018, when he was forced to quit following a string of corruption scandals involving his administration. Openly hostile to his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa, Zuma announced in December he would not vote for the ruling African National Congress, his longtime party, in the May 29 election, instead backing new party uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
Palestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, as Israel airstrikes hit Gaza’s southernmost city.
Grocery delivery company Instacart is partnering with Uber Eats to offer a new perk to its customers: restaurant delivery. San Francisco-based Instacart said Tuesday that its U.S. shoppers will see a “Restaurants” tab in the company’s app in the coming weeks. Restaurant orders will be delivered by Uber Eats drivers.
The American Cancer Society aims to enroll over 100,000 Black, cancer-free women between the ages of 25 and 55 and follow them for three decades.
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal Security Service, or FSB, a statement said. The colonels were recruited before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to the statement.
French President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping at one of his beloved childhood haunts in the Pyrenees mountains, pressing a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade.Xi, who is due to host Russian President Vladimir Putin in China later this month, warned against using the Ukraine crisis "to cast blame, smear a third country and incite a new Cold War".
Boeing scrubbed its Monday launch attempt of its new Starliner spacecraft, crewed by veteran NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
A Moscow court says a U.S. man has been jailed for drunkenly crashing through a kid's library window, as an American soldier is also detained.
"Puigdemont, president!"The president should be allowed to go where he needs to go, to Catalonia, which is why it's very important that we're here," explained Angels Lores, a 58-year-old teacher who refers to Puigdemont as if he were still regional leader.