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TORONTO (AP) — Canada recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday, despite opposition from the U.S, with the hope it paves the way for peace based on two states living side by side.Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on the social platform X that Canada had recognized a Palestinian state. Britain and Australia also announced that they were doing the same on Sunday.“The current Israeli government is working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established,” Carney said in a statement. “It has pursued an unrelenting policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank, which is illegal…

Travellers wait in Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport on Sept. 20, 2025 after major European airports including Brussels, Berlin and London’s Heathrow were hit by “cyber-related disruption.”Justin Tallis | Afp | Getty ImagesDisruption at some European airports continued for a second day on Sunday after a cyberattack targeted check-in technology company Collins Aerospace.The U.K.’s largest airport, Heathrow, was among those affected, along with airports in Berlin and Brussels.Brussels Airport on Sunday asked airlines to cancel half of Monday’s scheduled departing flights as issues with its check-in system remain unresolved.A spokesperson for the airport said Collins Aerospace, the system’s provider, has…

Sep 21, 2025, 05:06 AM ETLiverpool captain Virgil van Dijk believes Ryan Gravenberch is in the form of his life but there is still plenty of room for improvement for the Netherlands midfielder.The midfielder became the youngest player (23 years and 127 days) to score and assist in a Premier League Merseyside derby, which extended their 100 per cent record to five matches.Last season’s Premier League young player of the year was coming off arguably his best game for the club in Wednesday’s Champions League victory over Atletico Madrid, and since his conversion to a number six by Arne Slot…

It cannot honestly be said that the UK Trades Union Congress (TUC) annual conference usually provides much of interest, let alone much political excitement. Largely attended by trade union officials, it regularly adopts motions that are moderate in tone and limited in real-world impact. This month’s gathering in Brighton was different. Delegates met against the backdrop of a global mass movement opposing Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and the wholesale commitment of European heads of government – none more so than British Prime Minister Keir Starmer – to a rearmament programme greater than anything we have seen since World War Two.…

A small convoy of ramshackle militarised vehicles gathers on the arid plains of Sudan, where a brutal civil war has ravaged the country. In the background, vallenato – traditional Colombian folk music – can be heard playing on a car radio belonging to Colombian mercenaries. The presence of Colombian guns for hire in Sudan was thrust into the spotlight last week, after Sudan lodged a formal complaint with the UN Security Council, accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of financing and deploying Colombian mercenaries to fight in the conflict. In the letter to the UN, Sudan’s military authorities said they had compiled…

“Nobody cared who I was until I put on the mask.”It is the famous quote from the arch-villain Bane in the most recent Batman trilogy that has inspired the last few years of Viktor Gyokeres’ career. It has not only inspired a celebration that has become iconic across European football, but an aura around the Swedish forward. He is a danger, someone to be feared.Gyokeres adopting that celebration during his days at Coventry marked a turning point for the forward. He went from a player who struggled in two loan spells at Swansea and the Sky Blues – to a…

“Nobody cared who I was until I put on the mask.”It is the famous quote from the arch-villain Bane in the most recent Batman trilogy that has inspired the last few years of Viktor Gyokeres’ career. It has not only inspired a celebration that has become iconic across European football, but an aura around the Swedish forward. He is a danger, someone to be feared.Gyokeres adopting that celebration during his days at Coventry marked a turning point for the forward. He went from a player who struggled in two loan spells at Swansea and the Sky Blues – to a…

Lucy Guo attends as Passes presents Lucypalooza 2024 during LA Tech Week on October 16, 2024, in Beverly Hills, California.Gonzalo Marroquin | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty ImagesSeveral billionaires and successful entrepreneurs never went to college, from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg — and 30-year-old Lucy Guo recently joined their ranks.The California-based founder became Forbes’ youngest self-made billionaire in June, boasting a net worth of $1.25 billion, after her first business, Scale AI, was acquired by tech giant Meta in a deal that valued the AI data labelling company at $29 billion.Currently the founder of content creator monetization platform Passes, launched in…

CAIRO (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 34 people in Gaza City overnight, including children, said health officials on Sunday, as Israel presses ahead with its offensive in the famine-stricken city and several countries prepare to recognize a Palestinian state. Health officials at Shifa Hospital, where most of the bodies were brought, said the dead included 14 people killed in a late-night strike Saturday, which hit a residential block in the southern side of the city. Health staff said a nurse who worked at the hospital was among the dead, along with his wife and three children.The latest Israeli…

PARIS (AP) — Several French mayors plan to fly Palestinian flags on town halls in defiance of government orders, as France prepares to formally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly.It’s unclear how many cities will join the initiative on Monday after Socialist leader Olivier Faure’s call to fly the flags, despite warnings from the Interior Ministry against such displays in a country with both Europe’s largest Jewish and Muslim populations. But the call has been gaining momentum as Palestinian flags have been more and more visible in France over the nearly two-year war in Gaza. Palestinian…