Palestinians look on at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem |
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- President Joe Biden threatened to condition support for Israel's offensive in Gaza on it taking concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to leverage US aid to influence Israeli military behavior.
- Israel said it approved the reopening of the Erez crossing into northern Gaza and the temporary use of Ashdod port in southern Israel, following the US demands.
- This week's strike on Iran's embassy in Damascus shows Israel's growing reach in the Middle East, but six months into the Gaza war it is facing deepening isolation.
- Dan Williams, Senior Correspondent for Israel and the Palestinian territories, joined the Reuters World News daily podcast to talk through the latest developments.
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- Ukraine attacked Russia's Morozovsk military air base in the Rostov region, destroying six Russian warplanes in a joint operation conducted by the SBU security service and military, a Kyiv intelligence source told Reuters.
- Donald Trump suffered a pair of legal setbacks as judges spurned his calls to dismiss criminal charges over the former US president's efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in Georgia and his keeping classified records after leaving office.
- Biden will visit Baltimore today to survey the site of a collapsed bridge and meet families of the six construction workers who died, amid growing tensions in Congress over using federal dollars to rebuild the bridge.
- Rescuers in Taiwan faced the threat of further landslides and rockfalls in their search for a dozen people still missing from this week's earthquake, as the death toll rose to 12 and some of the stranded were brought to safety.
- A senior member of Britain's governing Conservative Party has admitted supplying the personal details of fellow lawmakers to someone he met online, saying he had felt compromised after he sent them intimate photos of himself.
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Janet Yellen speaks during an event hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in China. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang |
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- US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that concerns are growing over the global economic fallout from China's excess manufacturing capacity, as she kicked off a four-day visit to the country.
- Google parent Alphabet has been talking to its advisers about the possibility of making an offer for HubSpot, an online marketing software company with a market value of $35 billion.
- Samsung Electronics estimated its first-quarter operating profit would rise more than 10-fold, topping market expectations, as chip prices have started to rebound from a severe downturn thanks to a boom in artificial intelligence.
- Artificial intelligence will lead to many companies employing fewer people in the next five years, staffing provider Adecco Group said, in a new survey highlighting the upheaval AI will bring to the workplace.
- Boeing and Airbus are edging towards a potentially coordinated deal to split operations of troubled supplier Spirit AeroSystems, taking on plants needed to support their top jet programs.
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See a selection of some of our top news photography from around the world this week. |
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Clara Pauchet, a pole dancing teacher, performs a trick at a dance studio in Brittany, France. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier |
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With breaking making its first Olympic appearance at the Paris Games later this year, pole dancers feel it could soon be their turn to be in the limelight. Pole dancing was recognised as a sport by the Global Association of International Sports Federation in 2017 after being essentially confined to cabarets and strip clubs. |
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