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China’s Xi heads to India for BRICS summit overshadowed by wars
Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, along with global energy security, are expected to dominate the summit.
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Rapper Lil Durk acquitted of murder-for-hire at Los Angeles trial
A federal jury on Friday found rapper Lil Durk not guilty of the attempted killing for hire of rival rapper Quando Rondo at a Los Angeles gas station, a shooting that resulted in the death of Rondo’s cousin.
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GOP and Democratic officials in Nashville unite over renaming airport for Dolly Parton
In Nashville, Tennessee, the Republican-dominated state government and Democrat-controlled city government are engaged in an ugly battle for control of the city’s airport.
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Giannis Posts New Photos with Klay Thompson, Heat Teammates on Boat During Team Bonding Trip
Giannis Antetokounmpo is already working on building chemistry with his new Miami Heat teammates.
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Donald Trump: Protests expected as US President visits Ireland
Donald Trump will arrive on Saturday morning at Dublin Airport ahead of a two-day visit to Ireland.
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North Korea fires ballistic missiles off eastern coast, Seoul says
South Korea said it was closely exchanging information on the launches with the US and Japan.
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Tragic death of woman who testified against father in notorious mafia murder of mother
Denise Cosco testified against the powerful 'Ndrangheta clan and her own father over the murder of her mother in Italy.
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Newspaper headlines: 'Military jet tripped chaos' and 'A failure for dying people'
Several of the papers consider on the fall of the assisted dying bill in the House of Commons on Friday.
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CIA drops dozens of declassified documents on bin Laden and al-Qaeda
A briefer told Clinton in 1998 that bin Laden’s ‘preferred option is to strike the US on its own soil in Washington’.
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70 Up: Curtain falls on documentary that has captivated Brits for six decades
70 Up is the final instalment in a series which began in 1964 and has followed the lives of 14 people.
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How Canadians are bracing for the impact of Trump’s trade war
Canada’s buy-local movement remains strong, but new tariffs could test how much more shoppers are willing to pay.
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Lightning Houthi advance in Yemen may bring dangerous new dimension to Iran war
The capture by the rebels of a stretch Yemen's strategic coastline is the group's most impressive military coup for several years.
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Former top US diplomat reveals mistakes made after 9/11 attacks
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad describes misgivings about the US handling of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
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Iran war live: Houthis control Red Sea coast, Saudi pipeline shut down
Houthi forces seize Yemen’s Red Sea coast while Saudi Arabia suspends crucial oil pipeline following drone attack.
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Reform receives record £36m donation from cryptocurrency billionaire
Ben Delo's donation, the biggest single sum ever given to a political party in the UK, comes amid scrutiny of Reform's finances.
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Anti-migrant activists like Danny Tommo are changing tactics
Patriot Platform wants to build a group of working-class voters to influence political parties on the right.
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Tasia Fortune: Arrest made over the death of black woman found hanged from tree
Tasia Fortune's body was found in the lot of an abandoned home in Mississippi in August.
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Over 2,000 pounds of meth found hidden in shipment of cabbage, DEA says | CNN
More than 2,000 pounds of methamphetamine was found hidden in a shipment of cabbage in Texas, according to the DEA. The seizure was part of a multi-agency investigation in the Rio Grande Valley.
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Israeli demolitions threaten schools and homes in Masafer Yatta
Students pledge to continue learning as Masafer Yatta demolitions target homes, schools, and their right to education.
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UK man pleads guilty to using online forum to encourage sexual assault of unconscious women
A man from North London pleaded guilty to charges related to encouraging other members of an online forum to sexually assault drugged victims, London’s Metropolitan Police announced on Friday.
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Children and a woman injured on Maltby fairground ride
Police say the three people have been taken to hospital for treatment, with the fair shut for the evening.
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Mississippi police make arrest in Tasia Fortune case after medical examiner rules death a homicide
Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have arrested a man in the case of Tasia Fortune, the 29-year-old Black woman found hanging from a tree outside an abandoned house last month, following the state medical examiner ruling her death a homicide.
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Trump on 9/11 reposts video of him asking January 6 rioters to go home
After marking the September 11 attack in the morning, President Donald Trump in the afternoon was apparently focused on the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack.
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Houthi advance in Yemen is about more than just the Red Sea
Houthis were already able to disrupt shipping – their advance consolidates that power, and exposes government weakness.
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Vance’s midterm pitch is strikingly different from Trump’s
Vice President JD Vance offered a more realistic and nuanced midterm pitch, which was a striking contrast to President Donald Trump’s all-is-great, we’re-in-the-Golden-Age approach.
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MPs vote against fresh attempt to legalise assisted dying
The proposed law sought to introduce one of the biggest societal changes in recent years.
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Can the Houthis close the Red Sea after seizing the Yemen coast?
Some observers see a force that has improved impressively in the past years, but others doubt the Houthis can sustain wins.
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‘Everything changed’: The human cost of 25 years of US wars
Successive wars launched after 9/11 have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced more than 38 million others.
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Goldman Says Slowing Inflation Is Best Path to Lower US Yields
For all the US Treasury’s efforts to stem rising borrowing costs, cooling inflation remains the most compelling way to lower bond yields, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Saudis Shuttle Oil North on Sinokor Tankers to Evade Houthis
Shipowners including Sinokor Group are helping Saudi Arabian crude exit the Red Sea via the safer northern route, as Iran-backed militants target the kingdom’s exports via the Bab el Mandeb chokepoint in the south.
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Goldman Muscles Into Indian Banks’ Turf With State Share Deals
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is making inroads into a corner of India’s deal landscape that’s long been the near-exclusive hunting ground of local finance giants: government share sales.
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China Said to Weigh Potential Bid to Host 2028 UN Climate Summit
China is considering a proposal to host the annual United Nations climate summit in 2028, a move that would signal the country’s intent to show greater global leadership on the issue.
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Korean Chipmakers’ Cash Payout Plans May Drive Won Rally Further
Unprecedented shareholder-return plans by South Korea’s two chipmaking giants are emerging as a key swing factor for the won, potentially extending its recent rally if the firms tap local currency markets to fund the payouts.
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Europe Has Its Own Biotech Star as Argenx Soars on Trial Success
It’s been a big week for biotech stocks on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Goldman, JPMorgan Are Among Most Bullish on Europe
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Stevenage Braces for Life After GSK as Drugmaker Moves to Cambridge
Nursing a pint at a pub a short walk from GSK Plc’s research headquarters in Stevenage, 30 miles north of London, Paul Jamison is fretting about the British drugmaker’s campus becoming a wasteland. The town’s largest employer is leaving, with the majority of …
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UK Firms in Distress Rises 9% Led By Consumer-Facing Sectors
The number of UK firms in critical financial distress grew by 9% in the past year, with consumer-facing industries coming under the most strain, according to research from financial and real estate advisory group BTG.
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The $28,000 Course for an AI Job Nobody Quite Understands Yet
Business schools are racing to prepare executives for the newest C-suite role, even as companies are still figuring out what chief AI officers will do.
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