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Father-of-three and high-tech company chief executive Eitan Singer tries to reassure his children about the future as they face nightly rocket attacks from Hamas and have to rush to a shelter in Jerusalem. He told BBC World News: “We try to confront the situation. “It is not easy – seven days in a row when…
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is likely to continue as now despite the couple announcing their divorce after 27 years of marriage, Dr Beth Breeze, director of the Centre for Philanthropy, at Kent University, said. “They have got a 21-year history in their foundation of giving sums larger than anyone has given historically, working…
Everyone in the Simon family contracted Covid-19, but nine-year-old daughter Makenna went to hospital.
Microsoft’s E3 press conference had plenty of heavy hitters, including the next Halo, a first look at Bethesda’s new Starfield space game which finally has a release date, and Forza Horizon 5, which is heading to Mexico. And nearly all the games shown off are headed to Microsoft’s subscription Game Pass Service, which it’s keen…
US President Joe Biden’s sweeping investment plan for jobs, education and social care has left some commentators comparing him to the Franklin D Roosevelt, said Dr Thomas Gift. Roosevelt’s New Deal economic plan helped pull the US out of recession in the 1930s, but Dr Gift, an associate professor, at the UCL Centre on US…
Belarus’s authoritarian leader says it is “absolutely possible” his forces helped migrants cross into Poland, but denies they were invited. Alexander Lukashenko has been accused by the EU of orchestrating the border crisis with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent months in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Belarus for its brutal crackdown on opponents who…