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German state leader hopes Orbán speech to keep focus on football
Hungary's right-wing leader Viktor Orbán plans to make a speech on the sidelines of Wednesday's Euro 2024 game against host Germany in Stuttgart, but the head of the state government there says the speech better be about football. "I expect him to stick to the topic of football and friendship in his speech," said Baden-Württemberg's Premier Winfried Kretschmann on Tuesday. As a member of the Green party, Kretschmann is on the opposite side of the political spectrum as his Hungarian guest. Kretsc
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A Russian submarine that just left Cuba is 'falling apart' with its soundproofing panels falling off
One of Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines was seen "falling apart," an OSINT analyst said, reviewing footage of the vessel in Cuba.
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Kenya scraps bread tax as protesters tear-gassed
Proposed levies on cooking oil, motor vehicles and financial services are also axed.
2 min read - BusinessReuters
Embraer a 'great solution' for carriers to add capacity more quickly, CEO says
SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian planemaker Embraer sees itself as a "great solution" for carriers to add capacity more quickly amid constraints to 'big' narrowbody deliveries in the industry, Chief Executive Francisco Gomes Neto said on Tuesday. The company has seen increased demand for its commercial jets and is actively working on several sales campaigns it hopes to conclude in coming months, Gomes Neto told reporters at an event at the firm's headquarters. Embraer has produ
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Shiseido and Dolce & Gabbana part ways as Covid-19 takes toll on luxury cosmetics
Japanese cosmetics and personal care giant, Shiseido Company Limited, announced it is partially terminating its global license agreement with Italian luxury fashion label Dolce & Gabbana (D&G). The license agreement would cease with effect from December 31st, 2021 for all product categories, activities and markets, except France.
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Kenya pro-government campaign falsely accuses media of lying about looming tax hikes
Tensions erupted in Kenya in June 2024 over a new finance bill that could see significant hikes in levies on commodities if passed into law, affecting most of the population. A day after the bill was made public, a coordinated online campaign on X targeted local media outlets reporting on the financial burden Kenyans would face if the changes went ahead.
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China could soon have to choose between fueling the Ukraine war and its access to Europe's economy
The West is hardening its stance toward China over its apparent support for Russia's Ukraine invasion.
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Dozens of North Korean soldiers repeatedly breach forbidden zone with South Korea ahead of Putin visit
Dozens of North Korean soldiers have crossed into the demilitarized zone that separates the communist dictatorship and South Korea, breaching the no-go zone multiple times this month.
2 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Estonia convicts a university professor from Russia for spying for Moscow
A university professor was jailed Tuesday in Estonia after being found guilty of spying for Russian military intelligence. Viacheslav Morozov, a Russian citizen who taught at the Baltic country's most prestigious university, was sentenced to six years and three months in prison for collecting information about Estonia's defense and security policy and the people and infrastructure related to it, Harju County Court said. The Baltic nation, which borders Russia, has recently seen a rise in sabot
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Israeli public broadcaster: IDF received warnings before October 7
Israeli military intelligence sounded clear warnings regarding a pending attack more than two weeks before Hamas launched its attack from the Gaza Strip on October 7 last year, according to Kan, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation. Plans to attack military bases and settlements and to take up to 250 hostages, including women and children, were set out in a document distributed within the Gaza Division of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on September 19, the Kan report said. The report cam
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Third trial in huge 'Reich Citizens' case begins in Germany
The third mammoth trial linked to the "Reich Citizens" extremist movement in Germany starts in the southern city of Munich on Tuesday. The trial concerns a group of suspects linked to Prince Heinrich XIII of Reuss, whom prosecutors say was a key figure in an alleged conspiracy to overthrow the German government. The Reich Citizens, or Reichsbürger in German, claim the historical German Reich of 1871 to 1945, with an emperor as head of state, is the country's legitimate form of government. As suc
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Aid worker says dozens saved from Italian shipwreck
Aid workers describe saving dozens of migrants from a shipwreck that left 10 dead off the Italian coast.
3 min read - WorldJust Food
Stand-off ensues as China weighs up pork duties on EU exports
China is investigating anti-dumping duties on EU pork in retaliation for proposed tariffs on electric vehicles.
4 min read - BusinessPrivate Banker International
Colombia Emerges as the Wealth Hub of Latin America
This press release follows WealthInsight's Colombia Report: Colombia 2013 Wealth Book which was published on the 5th of September 2013.
2 min read - WorldJust Style
Explainer: Apparel sourcing majors accused of being worst for workers
Seven of the 10 worst countries for workers are popular garment sourcing destinations in Asia and Central America, according to a new report.
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Brazil's tax authority to summon foreign crypto exchanges for information
Brazil's tax authority will soon call foreign crypto exchanges not based in the country to explain their operations and how they cooperate with local service providers, government officials told Reuters on Monday. Unlike exchanges formally established in Brazil, they are not obligated to report transactions conducted on their platforms. Wagner Lima, risk management coordinator at the revenue service, said the government also aims to understand how these exchanges cooperate with service provide
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Ukraine claims its drones hit a Russian oil facility, sparking a huge blaze
Ukraine claimed responsibility Tuesday for an overnight drone attack on a Russian oil facility that started a massive blaze in the latest long-range strike by Kyiv’s forces on a border region. Ukraine has in recent months stepped up aerial assaults on Russian soil, targeting refineries and oil terminals in an effort to slow down the Kremlin’s war machine. Moscow’s army is pressing hard along the front line in eastern Ukraine, where a shortage of troops and ammunition in the third year of war h
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France rethinks military light-drone acquisition as Army falls behind
French defense leaders seek ways to short-circuit the military-acquisition bureaucracy, as drones remake the battlefield in Ukraine.
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More than 200 arrested in Kenya protests over proposed tax hikes in finance bill
More than 200 protesters have been arrested in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, in ongoing protests against proposed tax hikes in a finance bill that is due to be tabled in parliament. Civil society groups said that demonstrations and a planned sit-down outside parliament buildings will continue despite the arrest of 210 protesters. Nairobi Police Commander Adamson Bungei on Tuesday said that no group had been granted permission to protest in the capital.
3 min read - Businessdpa international
Bosses told hybrid working is good for business and keeps staff happy
Sceptical office managers should stick with hybrid working, according to researchers writing in the journal Nature, who found evidence in China that working from home makes employees less likely to quit and can save a business millions of dollars. The team said hybrid work models "improved job satisfaction and reduced quit rates by one-third," with "significant" reductions seen among "non-managers, female employees and those with long commutes." "A hybrid schedule with two days a week working fr
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Putin seen as making crony appointments to Defence Ministry
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed three new deputy ministers to the country's Defence Ministry, including a woman who is believed to be a distant relative. Anna Tsivileva, whose maiden name is Putina, is to be responsible for housing construction and social security for members of the armed forces. Another new deputy minister, Pavel Fradkov, is the son of former intelligence chief and prime minister Mikhail Fradkov. The younger Fradkov is to manage the army's property and assets. Th
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AI set to 'dramatically' improve weather forecasts, new research says
Artificial intelligence could soon be helping to deliver faster and more accurate weather forecasts, according to meteorologists in Germany behind new research into the use of AI in forecasting models. Researchers from Germany's meteorological service Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) say that, in a world first, they relied exclusively on AI to successfully feed data from weather observation into forecasting models and analysis processes. "Offering the potential to speed up and improve analyses and f
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Palestinian authorities: 17 killed in Israeli action in Gaza Strip
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have claimed the lives of 17 people and injured dozens more, Palestinian authorities reported on Tuesday. Bodies had been recovered from the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip and taken to a local hospital, the state-run Wafa news agency reported. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on Tuesday that it had eliminated terrorist cells and located large amounts of weaponry in the centre and south of the region. It added that IDF troops were c
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China's share of electric cars imported into Germany rising sharply
China's share of purely electric vehicle imports into Germany rose to 40.9% in the first four months of this year, even though the number of such imported vehicles fell by 15.7%, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported on Tuesday. The European Commission last week warned that it was considering imposing punitive tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in a move that could also hit German carmakers producing in China for the export market. According to Destatis, imports of Chinese electri
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China's Realme apologises after armed robbery of flagship smartphones shipment
Chinese smartphone maker Realme apologised to consumers for possible delays of its latest handset because the devices were stolen while in transit to Spain just a few weeks ahead of the product launch. A shipment of Realme's GT6 smartphones, which has a launch event in Italy set for Thursday, was stolen on its way to Spain "for reasons beyond our control", the company said in a statement on Friday published to its Spanish account on X, formerly Twitter. Spanish tech media Zonamovilidad.es report
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Rains cause deaths in southern China as north swelters in heatwave
At least five people have died in heavy rains, flooding and resulting landslides around the city of Meizhou in China's Guangdong province, and a further four people in Wuping in south-eastern Fujian province, state television reported on Tuesday. In Meizhou, contact was lost to a 15 people and another 13 were cut off by water and mud. In Fujian, two were missing, following heavy rains across the south of the country since the weekend. Heavy rains in Xinjiang in the west, China's largest region b
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Germany's slump in residential construction continues
Badly needed housing construction in Germany is not gaining ground, as the number of building permits for new construction and apartment conversions fell in April to well below the level seen a year ago, data released on Tuesday showed. The Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden said new construction permits amounted to 14,300 in April - 17% less than a year earlier. Including apartment conversions, building permits amounted to 17,600 - also an annual drop of 17%. Housing has become a major pol
2 min read - BusinessJust Style
IFC backs Epic Group’s green textile push in Bangladesh, India
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is providing $100m in debt financing to Hong Kong-based clothing manufacturer, Epic Group to support sustainable textile manufacturing expansion in Bangladesh and India.
2 min read - ScienceAFP
Photo of far side of the Moon taken by NASA orbiter in 2010, not China's Chang'e-6 probe
An old photo of an irregularly shaped Moon pit has been shared repeatedly in Chinese social media posts that falsely claimed it was taken by China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe after it sent samples back to Earth in June 2024. In fact, the photo was taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and published by the US space agency in 2010.
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Iranian Kaaba replica built for hajj preparation
As Muslims around the world embarked on the annual hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, a video made the rounds in Facebook and TikTok posts that misleadingly claimed it showed Iran had built its own Kaaba to "compete" with the black cubic structure at Islam's holiest site. The footage in fact shows pilgrims walking around a replica of the Kaaba in Tehran in May 2023 to train for the physically demanding rituals involved in the hajj.
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SKorea: North Korean soldiers briefly crossed into buffer zone again
North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily-fortified military demarcation line with South Korea in the second such incident between the two hostile countries in less than two weeks, Seoul said on Tuesday. After South Korean border patrols fired warning shots, the North Korean soldiers immediately retreated across the border again, said the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul. It comes after South Korea reported a similar incident last week said to have occurred on June 9. As in that earlier in
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China's property measures give sales a boost, but only in big cities
China's latest property support measures have boosted transactions in its biggest cities, but activity in smaller localities is struggling to get off the ground, pointing to more pain ahead for most of the country's real estate market. On May 17, China cut minimum mortgage rates and downpayments and instructed municipalities to buy unsold apartments to turn them into social housing, sparking dozens of announcements from cities easing policies under the new guidelines. Small samples of transact
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China now has 500 warheads and is building its nuclear arsenal faster than any other country, think tank says
China increased its nuclear warheads from 410 in 2023 to 500 at the start of 2024, per the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
3 min read - WorldAssociated Press
South Korean soldiers fire warning shots after North Korean troops cross border, apparently in error
South Korean troops fired warning shots to repel North Korean soldiers who briefly crossed the rivals’ heavily fortified land border Tuesday for the second time this month, the South's military said. Around 20 to 30 North Korean soldiers who were doing construction work crossed the military demarcation line that serves as the border between the two countries in the Demilitarized Zone, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. The soldiers retreated after the South broadcasted warnings
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Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin is in trouble again as he's indicted for royal defamation
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was indicted and arraigned Tuesday on a charge of defaming the country’s monarchy in one of several court cases that have rattled Thai politics. Thaksin is the unofficial power behind the party leading the government, Pheu Thai, despite being ousted from power in a coup 18 years ago. Thaksin, 74, voluntarily returned to Thailand last year from self-imposed exile and served virtually all of his sentence on corruption-related charges in a hospital ra
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'I would be beheaded': Islamist insurgency flares in Mozambique
A bold insurgent attack heightens fears of instability as a regional force prepares to pull out.
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Central African Republic faces increased rebel activity and spillover from Sudan war, UN experts say
Activities of armed groups in the volatile Central African Republic have increased, complicating a security landscape that has seen a spillover of the conflict in neighboring Sudan, U.N. experts warn in a new report. The panel of experts cite confirmed reports of air raids by the Sudanese military around border areas and of fighters from the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces crossing over to recruit from armed groups in the Central African Republic. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-Apr
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Thai court grants Thaksin bail, other politically charged cases to be heard in July
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's influential former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a powerful backer of the largest party in the governing coalition, avoided pre-trial detention for allegedly insulting the monarchy after a criminal court granted him bail on Tuesday. Separately, the Constitutional Court set July 3 and July 10, respectively, as the next hearing dates for two cases involving the opposition Move Forward party and the incumbent prime minister Srettha Thavisin. Srettha, a political
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Mummy’s unearthed coffin features ‘unreal’ depiction of beloved ‘Simpsons’ character
The resting place was discovered late last year in a 3,500-year-old cemetery in Minya, Egypt.
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Pro-Palestine students end LSE building encampment
The month-long encampment was in protest over the university's links to Israel, activists say.
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Poll: Ukrainians still see Zelensky as legitimate president
A large majority of Ukrainians continue to view Volodymyr Zelensky as their legitimate president, despite his extended tenure without elections since Russia invaded the country in 2022. According to a survey published on Monday by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology, 70% of the 2,011 respondents believe that Zelensky should remain in office until the end of the war. Only 22% were against. The results contradicted Moscow's claim that Zelensky's term of office had long since expired and
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Netanyahu dissolves Israeli war cabinet after resignations
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved his war cabinet on Monday, a spokeswoman for the prime minister confirmed. The key political decision-making body for how the war in Gaza was being conducted was dissolved just over a week after the withdrawal of influential opposition leader Benny Gantz. Israeli media had earlier leaked the news about the break-up of the cabinet, which was formed after the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7. A spokeswoman for Netanyahu confirmed the news on
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Ukrainian Drones Are Giving Russian Motorcycles Hell
As the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on, we’re seeing some odd evolutions on the battlefield. It’s hard to say if such things might pop up in future military conflicts since many of the peculiarities on the Russian side seem to be generally mocked, even by military experts. One of the latest is how the Russian military is trying to protect motorcycles from drone attacks. You can actually own this armored military truck. From WWI onward, motorcycles have played a role in many of the wars
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Southern Mentawai Outpost Owner Eric Foraker Tragically Drowns Surfing Rags Left
Last week 47-year-old Aaron Beveridge went missing after snapping his leash during a big day at Main Break Margaret River. Only a few days later, with the next round of solid Indian Ocean swell hitting Indonesia, Southern Mentawai Outpost owner Eric Foraker passed away while surfing Rags ...
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Lack of global schooling costing trillions, UN warns
Excluding children from school education could cost the global community around $10 trillion a year by 2030 if states do not take decisive action, the United Nations warned in a new report published on Monday. The report by the UN's educational, scientific and cultural agency UNESCO estimates the specific costs for private individuals, states and societies, while factoring in lost tax revenues and lower incomes. It compares the current situation with a scenario in which there are no or only a mi
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Ukraine summit ends without support from key powers for peace communique
China, India, and Saudi Arabia were not among the 80 countries that signed a statement agreeing the territorial integrity of Ukraine must be the basis of any peace deal.
2 min read - WorldKTVU
'Air India food can cut like a knife', man finds metal in food on flight to SFO
A man was traveling from India to San Francisco when he found a sharp piece of metal in his meal on an Air India flight, Air India confirmed to KTVU.
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Israel says Rafah offensive goals nearly achieved
The Israeli military says it will soon have achieved its aims in the offensive in Rafah. Half of the combat units of the the militant Palestinian organization, which governed Gaza prior to the war that broke out in October, have been destroyed, the army said. Some 60-70% of the territory of the city in the southern Gaza Strip is under the "operational control" of Israeli troops, the army said on Monday. It would only take a few more weeks before the military operation in the city is completed, t
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German Ports See Strikes After ‘Completely Inadequate’ Contract Offer
Strikes have taken place at five ports across Germany amid a third round of contract negotiations between union workers and their employers.
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Ukraine Euro 2024 Fixtures: Dates, Venues and Game Analysis
It was a terrible start for Ukraine at Euro 2024, falling to a disappointing 3-0 defeat to Romania. What are their remaining fixtures and potential route to the final?Group E looks to be one of the we...
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