Italian authorities had accused Google of failing to declare and pay taxes on advertising income generated in the country (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV) Tech giant Google has paid 326 million euros to Italy following an investigation into alleged unpaid taxes, Milan prosecutors said Wednesday, as they recommended criminal proceedings be dropped. Italian auth

The Pope spent a peaceful night in hospital and ate breakfast this morning, the Vatican said. It comes after it cancelled the Pope‘s weekend engagements after he was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia. The 88-year-old, who as a young adult developed a case of pleurisy and had part of one of his lungs removed, has been […]

Two people have been killed in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah after Israeli tanks opened fire on Palestinians, a clinic in the coastal strip reported on Tuesday. Two bodies were brought to the hospital after the incident, which comes despite a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas militants, who control Gaza. […]

The identities of the six hostages who are due to be released by Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Saturday have been announced by the families. Omer Shem Tov, 22, Omer Wenkert, 23, and Eliya Cohen, 27, were abducted from the Nova music festival more than 16 months ago. Also being released to Israeli authorities […]

(Reuters) – Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday appointed the former head of Russia’s space agency, Yuri Borisov, as special presidential representative for international space cooperation. Borisov had headed Roscosmos since July 2022 in a tenure marked by the failure of a Russian moon mission and was relieved of his post earlier t