King Charles has since 2022 expressed sorrow for the suffering caused by slavery without crossing a line that Britain has ‌long resisted: an apology.

European ​Union charges on cheap ecommerce packages entering the bloc, which target Chinese platforms such as Shein and Temu, could ‌raise €6 billion a year for the EU budget from 2028 to 2034, a Commission document seen by Reuters on Friday showed.

Tens of thousands of people, mostly students and workers, ​took to the streets across Italy on Friday to demand ‌higher wages and stronger public services, protest against the rising cost of living and oppose increased military spending.

US stocks ​tumbled on Friday, with the Nasdaq suffering its largest one-day percentage drop since June 5 following disappointing quarterly results from ‌Intel and Amazon, which amplified growing worries surrounding AI-related companies’ massive spending on the nascent technology.

S&P Global Ratings on Friday revised its outlook on Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab to “negative” from “stable”, citing significant uncertainty around the social media giant’s capital spending and free operating cash flow.

The US State Department said on Friday it had approved the sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 missiles to Ukraine for an ​estimated $2.1 billion, in what would be one of the most significant steps to supply defensive weapons to ‌Kyiv since the start of the second Trump administration.

An Australian woman convicted of murdering three of her estranged husband’s relatives with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms lost an attempt on ​Friday to appeal her conviction, with a court also quashing her chances of ‌parole.

An Italian military helicopter operating with the EU peacekeeping mission in Bosnia ​and Herzegovina crashed on Thursday, killing four people and injuring ‌11 others, Italy’s defence ministry said.

Rescuers picked through mangled carriages on Thursday in a search for victims of Spain’s second fatal high-speed ​train crash this year, with the death toll rising to 69 and the public demanding explanations for the latest accident.

President Donald Trump’s administration filed a revised lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block Alaska’s election results if Republican incumbent ​Dan Sullivan loses narrowly and issued more than 40 subpoenas and document requests in its probe, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Amazon, opens new tab on Thursday reported a massive cash burn in the third quarter, sending shares sharply lower, while it signaled higher capital expenditures next year atop an already ​huge amount in 2026.

El Salvador will send over 2,000 soldiers to Haiti to rescue missing personnel and support ​anti-gang security operations, its foreign ministry said.