“Today is a big win for European citizens and for tax justice,” said European antitrust Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, whose 8-year fight to impose the measure on the global tech behemoth brought her to tears when she finally heard she had won.
EU's Top Court Rules Against Apple In $14 Billion Tax Case
More than 40 dead, dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza tent camp, agency says
The Hamas-run Gaza government media office put the number of fatalities at more than 40. It said that at least 60 others were wounded in the strikes and many remained missing as rescue workers continued their searches early on Tuesday.
Residents and medics said the tent encampment near Khan Younis in the Al-Mawasi area, which Israel has designated a humanitarian safe zone for displaced Palestinians, was struck by at least four missiles. The camp is crowded with families ordered by the Israeli military to flee there from elsewhere in the territory.
Putin’s drones breach Nato airspace as Russia to hold military drills with China
Russia is preparing to join huge military drills with China near Japan this month, according to Chinese state-owned media.
The Xinhua new agency reported that Vladimir Putin’s air and naval forces would join China’s People’s Liberation Army for drills in the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk.
It comes as Russian drones breached Nato airspace as Vladimir Putin’s forces targeted Ukraine in an “irresponsible” overnight attack.
Romania scrambled F-16 fighter jets to monitor the drones, which were detected in the early hours of Sunday morning while Latvia shared photos of a crashed drone in its eastern region.
Fear of 'lost generation' as Gaza school year begins with all classes shut
The new school year in the Palestinian territories officially began on Monday, with all schools in Gaza shut after 11 months of war and no sign of a ceasefire.
As fighting continued, Israel announced new orders to residents of the north Gaza Strip to leave their homes, in response to rockets fired into Israel.
White House: Biden has not called family of American citizen killed in West Bank by Israeli troops
White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby said Monday that Biden has “not spoken to the family as of yet.”
“We don't have a call to talk about today,” Kirby said at Monday’s White House press briefing. “Obviously, we mourn with her family, of course.”
Syria Says Israeli Strikes Kill 18 People In A Large-scale Attack On Sites
One of the sites targeted was a research center used in the development of weapons, a war monitor said. Syrian officials said civilian sites were targeted.
Israel regularly targets military sites in Syria linked to Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Those strikes have become more frequent as Hezbollah has exchanged fire with Israeli forces for the past 11 months against the backdrop of Israel’s war against Hamas — a Hezbollah ally — in Gaza.
However, the intensity and death toll of Sunday night’s strikes were unusual.
Russia takes Ukrainian town in advance on Pokrovsk
Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow's forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the Ukrainian defensive front lines.
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