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Check all the LIVE Updates here on the LIVE blogBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to visit Israel this week, Sky News reported on Tuesday without citing sources.A Downing Street spokesperson declined to confirm the report, saying Sunak's travel plans would be confirmed in the usual way.Last week, foreign minister James Cleverly travelled to Israel to show solidarity with the Israeli people following attacks by Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Reuters)The Israeli army said Tuesday a strike that hit a Gaza hospital, killing at least 200 people according to Hamas officials, was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad Palestinian militants."The hospital was hit as a result of a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization," it said in a statement.Arab governments immediately blamed Israel, 11 days into a war between Israel and Gaza-based Hamas militants who attacked southern Israel on October 7.

UBS managing director and senior portfolio manager Jason Katz discusses whether the U.S. stock market is ignoring the threat of a wider Middle East war on 'Varney & Co.'

(Reuters) -Rolls-Royce Holdings is set to axe about 2,500 staff as soon as Tuesday as part of a cost-cutting drive by its new chief executive, Sky News reported on Monday.

WARNING — GRAPHIC FOOTAGE: The Punaro Group CEO Gen. Arnold Punaro (ret.) discusses the attacks on Israel from Hamas and reacts to the White House being grilled over refreezing the $6 billion from the Iran prisoner swap deal.

Ukraine after Russia unleashed a ‘special military operation’ in 2022, later US has also sent aid to Israel after Hamas fighters launched a surprise attack on 7 October, 2023. Now US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has told Sky News, US can ‘certainly afford’ wars on two fronts.

LONDON (Reuters) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday it was too early to speculate on the economic consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and that the impact would depend on whether the conflict spread to the wider region.

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Reuters. BA Flight 165 on its final descent into Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport was diverted back to Heathrow airport after the pilot didn’t felt safe enough to land as there were sirens going off. “Safety is always our highest priority and we've taken the decision to return our Tel Aviv flight to Heathrow," the Reuters report quoted a spokesperson for British Airways as saying.

«We extend our deepest condolences to the victims and to the families of all those affected, and wish those injured a speedy recovery.

Shares in the troubled British lender Metro Bank have bounced back by a third on reports that it has been sounding out bigger rivals to buy a chunk of its assets

LONDON — The U.K.'s Metro Bank will likely struggle to raise fresh capital to shore up its balance sheet, according to analysts, who outlined bleak prospects for the beleaguered bank.

This would add to the potential equity and debt raising that is being targeted by the bank in order to refinance a £350m MREL debt due next year.

The bank said it continues to consider «how to best enhance its capital resources, with particular regard to the £350m senior non-preferred notes due in October 2025. 

The bank said it continues to consider «how to best enhance its capital resources, with particular regard to the £350m senior non-preferred notes due in October 2025. 

Britain’s Treasury chief is announcing a hike in the national minimum wage

Jenean Chapman, the former personal assistant to the Duchess of York, was discovered in a Dallas apartment. Law enforcement authorities have determined that her death is a result of homicide. A 48-year-old man named James Patrick has been apprehended in connection with the murder.

News Corp’s Australian newspaper editors were summoned to the Murdochs’ Los Angeles compound, Chartwell, last week for strategy meetings.

Rupert Murdoch has been lauded as this country’s “most talented and influential” business figure after the Australian-born global media baron retired from the front lines of his empire after seven decades in charge.

Rupert Murdoch has stepped down from his top roles overseeing his sprawling media empire, to make way for his chosen successor, first son Lachlan Murdoch.

Royal biographer Andrew Morton has recently suggested that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are unlikely to return to the UK due to the prospect of Meghan having to curtsy to Kate Middleton, when and if Prince William takes the throne. Morton, who has been a close collaborator with Princess Diana, appeared on Sky News' "Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips" to share his insights on the matter. Meghan and Harry, who distanced themselves as senior royals in 2020, are now leading independent lives in California.

United Kingdom is gearing up for the warmest weather of the year this week as a looming heatwave promises temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius. While autumn officially commenced on September 1st, much of the UK will experience a late surge of summer heat, coinciding with the return of many students to school.