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Larry Ellison is now worth $393 billion, Bloomberg says, several billion more than Elon Musk, who had been the world’s richest for four years running.

The UAE has barred Israeli defence firms from participating in a defence conference set to be held in Dubai next month, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday pushed for a common air defence system with Kiev’s European allies as he accused Russia of “deliberately targeting” neighbouring Poland by flying drones.

US job growth was significantly weaker than previously reported in the year through March, the government estimated on Tuesday, ahead of a central bank policy meeting next week.

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Israel’s strikes as a “flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Qatar.”

Israeli PM says demolitions are a “prelude” to a major ground operation in Gaza City; Hamas condemns remarks as “criminal sadism”.

Kazem now serves scoops of ice cream and his signature “barrad”—a traditional Palestinian citrus-flavoured slushy—in Ajman, a small emirate about 45 kilometres north of Dubai.

A tribute to the 26-year-old activist, writer, and friend whose life and death reveal both the brutality of Israeli military violence and the failures of US officials to seek accountability.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has faulted US President Donald Trump’s Alaska summit last month with President Vladimir Putin, saying that it handed the Russian leader “what he wanted.”

Pope Leo XIV called for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine, and other conflict-affected regions during Sunday prayers at Saint Peter’s Square in the Vatican.