Russia said on Thursday it had summoned the ambassador to Luxembourg to protest against the exhumation of the remains of Andriy Melnyk, a Ukrainian nationalist leader during World War Two whom Moscow described as a “Nazi collaborator.”

Israel’s Wix.com WIX.O, which helps small businesses build and operate websites, is laying off 20% of its workforce, CEO Avishai Abrahami said on Thursday, citing a strong shekel versus the dollar ILS= and the rapid evolution of AI.

France will reimburse the cost of weight-loss drugs prescribed to severely obese patients from mid-June in a first for a European Union country, Health Minister Stephanie Rist said on Thursday.

Italy’s finance police on Thursday said they had seized assets and companies worth more than €200 million ($232 million) in an investigation into the laundering of drug trafficking proceeds linked to late mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro.

Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi, Chief Whip of the MK party, and one of its three representatives on Parliament’s Impeachment Committee, faces a fraud charge linked to allegations that parliamentary researchers were forced to surrender large portions of their salaries.

South Africa’s deepening hunger crisis reflects more than rising food prices – it exposes an economic system in which wages, social grants and employment conditions increasingly fail to meet basic living costs. Austerity, precarious work and weak social protection have created a growing class of “working poor”, and unchecked inequality and food insecurity threaten long-term social stability.

Squid ink pasta is tailor-made for a seafood sauce, so I headed straight for the prawns after popping a packet of pennoni lisci into my trolley.