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CNN  —  Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has posted a Father’s Day video showing her husband, Prince Harry, playing with the couple’s two children. The footage, posted on Instagram on Sunday, features a mixture of photos and videos, including one in which the duke is seen dancing with son Archie in his arms. Another clip shows Harry teaching Archie to ride a bike while daughter Lilibet runs behind them. The duchess captioned the post: “The best. Happy Father’s Day to our favorite guy 💕” The couple have been known to guard their children’s privacy closely, but, while the children are only…

PARIS (AP) — Israel’s Ministry of Defense has condemned the erection of black partition walls around its defense industry pavilions at the Paris Air Show, calling the move “outrageous and unprecedented” and demanding an immediate reversal by French authorities and event organizers.The walls appeared overnight ahead of the air show’s opening Monday, visually isolating Israeli booths from dozens of other international exhibitors. Israeli officials say the move followed a last-minute demand from organizers to remove offensive weapons systems from display — a request they rejected.“The French are hiding behind supposedly political considerations to exclude Israeli offensive weapons from an international…

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — Navin Chaudhary had just begun eating his meal when a loud bang startled him. He turned back to see a massive fire taking over the dining area where he and other trainee doctors had assembled for lunch.The blaze approaching him, he rushed toward a window and jumped.From the ground, looking upwards, the sight of the Air India plane’s tail cone hanging from the burning building propelled Chaudhary and fellow medical students into action. “There was fire and many were injured,” said Chaudhary. He said he felt lucky to survive but knew he had a task at…

HONG KONG (AP) — An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue, days after another of the airline’s flights crashed and killed at least 270 people. Air India said in a statement that the New Delhi-bound plane landed in Hong Kong safely and was undergoing checks “as a matter of abundant precaution.” Airport Authority Hong Kong said in a separate statement that flight AI315 returned to the southern Chinese city’s airport around 1 p.m. The plane was a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, the same model as the London-bound flight that…

VIENNA (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Austria on Monday in his first trip to the European Union member country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Austria is famously neutral — a stance it declared in 1955 after World War II — and Vienna has come under heavy criticism since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war for maintaining ties with Moscow.Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 138 strike and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight, mainly at the eastern Donetsk region. Of those, 125 were either intercepted or jammed, while 10 reached their targets. Eight others caused damage…

Oxford Street on May 2 2025, in London.Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty ImagesWhen U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her government budget last fall, unveiling a £70 billion ($95 billion) boost to public spending to be funded by higher borrowing and £40 billion in tax rises, which mostly hit British businesses, she insisted it was a one-off move, telling lawmakers that “we’re not going to be coming back with more tax increases, or indeed more borrowing.”Times have changed, however, and as Reeves tries to balance the books and stick to her stated non-negotiable “fiscal rules” — while pursuing a…

The U.S. has placed major chip export restrictions on Huawei and Chinese firms over the past few years. This has cut off companies’ access to critical semiconductors.Jaap Arriens | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesTaiwan has added China’s Huawei and SMIC to its trade blacklist in a move that further aligns it with U.S. trade policy and comes amid growing tensions with Beijing. The two leading Chinese chip firms have been put on Taiwan’s “Strategic High-Tech Commodities Entity List,” along with many of their international subsidiaries.Taiwan’s current regulations require licenses from regulators before domestic firms can ship products to parties named on the…

Europe stocks rise and shrug off the Israel-Iran conflictEuropean stock markets rose, shrugging off the Israel-Iran conflict.The Stoxx Europe 600 index provisionally ended the session up 0.4%. Regionally, the U.K.’s FTSE 100 was higher by 0.3%, while Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 were up by almost 0.8%.Some strategists, however, have warned that investors are being complacent about geopolitical risks.— Ganesh RaoStocks maintain positive momentumIt’s 2 p.m. in London, and stocks are still broadly moving higher.The pan-European Stoxx 600 was last seen trading around 0.3% higher, putting it on course to snap a five-day losing streak.France’s CAC 40 was up…

Fire and smoke rise into the sky after an Israeli attack on the Shahran oil depot on June 15, 2025 in Tehran, Iran.Getty Images | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe CEOs of two major energy companies are monitoring the developments between Iran and Israel — but they aren’t about to make firm predictions on oil prices.Both countries traded strikes over the weekend, after Israel targeted nuclear and military facilities in Iran on Friday, killing some of its top nuclear scientists and military commanders.Speaking at the Energy Asia conference in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, Lorenzo Simonelli, president and CEO of…

Calgary, Alberta CNN  —  It’s a tableau no world leader — except perhaps President Donald Trump — wants to repeat. Convening in the Canadian Rockies for this week’s Group of 7 summit, presidents and prime ministers are hoping to avoid the acrimony that pervaded the last time this country played host to the world’s most exclusive club. The mood in Quebec seven years ago was immortalized best in a photograph rivaling any Baroque masterpiece for drama. Glowering with his arms crossed, Trump sat beneath a stern German Chancellor Angela Merkel and stoic Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as they hashed…