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The arrest of August Hanning, Germany’s former intelligence chief, has prompted calls across the Bundestag for tighter restrictions on what senior intelligence officials can do after leaving government, including demands for a
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US military personnel stationed on Japan’s Okinawa island have been placed under a month-long curfew and banned from drinking alcohol while undergoing discipline training after a US Marine was accused of murdering
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Israelis will mark three years since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack on Wednesday, commemorating the deadliest day in the country’s history while Gaza remains devastated and a year-old ceasefire has failed
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Iran-aligned Houthi forces attacked Aden International Airport with ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones early on Wednesday, Yemen’s Transport Ministry said, as fighting intensified across several fronts in the country and the Saudi-led
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A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday to wire fraud after prosecutors accused him of exploiting his government authority to acquire luxury property in Florida and hundreds of gold bars
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Samsung Electronics is expected to report a nearly nine-fold increase in third-quarter operating profit, as demand for artificial-intelligence infrastructure continues to drive a prolonged shortage of memory chips. Analysts nevertheless have reduced
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The Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.5% on Wednesday, its first increase in nearly four years, as rising inflation and strong economic growth
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The global oil market has lost much of the storage buffer that has traditionally helped absorb supply disruptions, with industry executives warning that readily accessible inventories are now running dangerously low. More
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Paramount Skydance completed its $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, creating a major Hollywood conglomerate and giving chief executive David Ellison control of one of the world’s largest entertainment
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Pakistan is expanding its legal machinery to deal with terrorism, introducing time-bound preventive detention and protected judicial proceedings in Balochistan and Punjab. The reforms seek to address failures in prosecuting militant suspects
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A CID investigation reveals 408 arrests from illegal call centres, including 284 Chinese nationals, as international scam networks increasingly use Sri Lanka to run sophisticated financial frauds, phishing and “pig-butchering” operations.
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