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Axel Springer
Axel Springer’s media assets to be split off in €13.5bn KKR deal
Axel Springer has struck a €13.5bn (£11.3bn) deal that will see its media assets, which include Politico, Business Insider and newspapers Bild and Die Welt, hived off into a...
UK news
Former Arsenal player charged after £600,000 of cannabis seized at Stansted
A former Arsenal and Queens Park Rangers footballer has been charged in connection with an attempt to smuggle...
Climate crisis
Thousands evacuated as Storm Boris causes havoc in northern Italy
About 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna overnight after...
Crime
Met investigates four officers over case of double domestic murderer
Four Metropolitan police officers are facing a misconduct investigation after two women were murdered by a man they...
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Global AI fund needed to help developing nations tap tech benefits, UN says
Governments and private companies should contribute to a global artificial intelligence fund that will allow developing nations to...
Netanyahu says attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon ‘not the end of the story’
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israeli air raids targeting Hezbollah rockets in southern Lebanon in the early hours of Sunday morning were “not the...
Telegram app founder Pavel Durov to appear in court after arrest in Paris
The Russian-born founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, is due to appear in a French court in the coming days after his arrest at a...
Two people missing and two injured in ice cave collapse in Iceland
Two people are missing and two others were seriously injured when an ice cave collapsed in south-east Iceland while a tour group was visiting...
Israel and Hezbollah have good reason to avoid war – but it remains possible
If Israel and Hezbollah wanted an all-out war it would have happened a long time ago. Each side would welcome the destruction of the...
EU top diplomat to call for sanctions against far-right Israeli ministers
Europe’s most senior diplomat will call for sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, as the EU battles to rescue its credibility on the Middle...
Africa to finally receive first batch of vaccines for deadly mpox virus
Africa’s first batch of mpox vaccines will this week finally reach the continent, weeks after they have been made available in other parts of...