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BEVERLY HILLS, May 14, (THEWILL) - The United Nations' Secretary-General, António Guterres, has urged all parties involved in the escalating violence in Gaza to halt further hostilities. Guterres, in a statement by his spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, called on parties to cease...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 14, (THEWILL) - A major US fuel pipeline has reportedly paid cyber-criminal gang DarkSide nearly $5m (£3.6m) in ransom, following a cyber-attack. Colonial Pipeline suffered a ransomware cyber-attack over the weekend and took its service down for...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 13, (THEWILL) - International flights to Israel have begun giving the country a wide berth in the midst of hostilities between the state and its neighbour Palestine. Several airlines on Thursday announced flight suspensions to and from...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 09, (THEWILL) - Pope Francis has called for a waiver of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines. In a speech to a global fundraising concert to promote fair access to vaccines, the Pope said the world was...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 06, (THEWILL) - The European Union Watchdog on Thursday said that a widely-used additive, known as the artificial colouring E171 on food labels, should “no longer be considered safe” for consumption. E171 contains nanoparticles of titanium dioxide, and...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 30, (THEWILL) – At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Mount Meron, Israel on Friday, medics said in an update. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the tragedy as a...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 28, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported the detection in over a dozen countries of a variant of COVID-19 feared to be contributing to rising coronavirus cases in India. The UN health agency said the B.1.617 variant...

Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 17, (THEWILL) - The head of Cuba’s Communist Party, Raul Castro, has announced that he would be relinquishing his position. His retirement will be ending an era of formal Socialist leadership that began with his elder brother, Fidel...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 13, (THEWILL) - US health authorities have ordered a precautionary “pause” in the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine as they investigate any links with blood clotting. The statement came days after the European Union’s drug...