European airports warn of half-term holiday chaos due to jet fuel shortage - Airports Council International Europe has warned that a fuel crunch would significantly harm Europe’s economy

China's President Xi Jinping received Taiwan's main opposition party leader on Friday, in a rare meeting which saw both sides stress a desire for cross-strait peace. Cheng Li-wun is the Kuomintang's (KMT) first sitting leader to visit China in a decade.

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news. European airports face jet fuel shortages within three weeks - reports 13:33Jasper Jolly European airports have warned the EU that jet fuel shortages could hit the summer holiday season if oil supplies do not start to flow through the strait of Hormuz within the next three weeks.

Cuba's president has said he won't step down as he pushed back against mounting US pressure for change on the island.

Windows of Eclipse Grillbar in Bavarian capital smashed by pyrotechnic devices as incidents of Anti-Semitism continue to rise in Germany

Last week, on the same day the Artemis II mission blasted off for the first human flight around the Moon in more than 50 years, it emerged that Elon Musk’s SpaceX had filed for a record-breaking stock market listing to raise as much as $75bn.

Lebanon's health ministry said on Thursday at least 303 people were killed in widespread Israeli strikes in central Beirut and other areas of Lebanon on Wednesday, and more than 1,000 were wounded. The Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah sites.

Sir Keir Starmer has said Gulf leaders were 'pleased to see a friend' during his visit to the Middle East. The PM said he detected a mood of 'shock that they were attacked in the way that they were attacked - a genuine shock that they were attacked - they hadn't been part of the attack on Iran and they've taken a lot of incoming missiles and drones'.