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Ukraine war live updates: Russia raises conscription age limit; Zelenskyy gives fresh corruption warning

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[ad_1] North Korea and Russia to strengthen cooperation, Defense Minister Shoigu says Russia and North Korea on Wednesday announced plans to strengthen their defense cooperation, Reuters reported Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying. “I am convinced that today’s talks will contribute to strengthening cooperation between our defense departments,” Shoigu said after a meeting in Pyongyang … Read more

Spain’s election ends with no clear majority, throwing the country into political limbo

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[ad_1] The leader and candidate of conservative Partido Popular (People’s Party) Alberto Nunez Feijoo. Oscar Del Pozo | Afp | Getty Images Spain’s election Sunday ended with no clear majority for either of the two main parties, throwing Europe’s fourth-largest economy into political limbo. With all votes counted, Spain’s conservative Partido Popular party secured 136 … Read more

Netanyahu in hospital as Israeli judicial crisis flares

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[ad_1] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin speaks to the media on March 16, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in hospital after being fitted with a pacemaker on Sunday, as tens of thousands of people converged on Jerusalem to protest a planned overhaul … Read more

Israel’s Netanyahu taken to hospital for a heart procedure and placed under sedation as hundreds of thousands march in protest of his plans to overhaul the judiciary

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[ad_1] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday he was going to the hospital for an emergency procedure to receive a pacemaker, but vowed to press ahead with his controversial judicial overhaul plan. In a brief videotaped statement released at 2 a.m. local time, Netanyahu said he had been fitted with a monitoring device … Read more

Drone attack in Crimea prompts evacuation, brief bridge closure

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[ad_1] The Kerch Bridge that links Crimea to Russia, taken on Oct. 14, 2022. Stringer | Afp | Getty Images A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea prompted authorities to evacuate everyone in a five-km (3.1-mile) radius and briefly suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia, the Moscow-installed regional … Read more

Alabama Republicans refuse to draw a second Black congressional district in defiance of Supreme Court

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[ad_1] A voter wearing a protective mask enters a polling location in Opelika, Alabama, U.S., on Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Elijah Nouvelage | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alabama Republicans on Friday defied a U.S. Supreme Court order by passing a new congressional map that includes only one majority-Black district. The GOP-controlled Legislature had called a special session to … Read more

Chinese hackers breached email accounts of top U.S. diplomats

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[ad_1] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) shakes hands with China’s Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Photo by Leah MILLIS / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LEAH MILLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Leah Millis | Afp | … Read more

Trump Media merger partner DWAC settles with SEC over fraud charges

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[ad_1] Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, July 7, 2023. Scott Morgan | Reuters WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Thursday that it had settled fraud charges with Digital World Acquisition Corp., the company that is seeking to take former President … Read more

Convicted Ponzi schemer granted clemency by Trump charged with new Ponzi scheme

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[ad_1] Former US President and 2024 Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump gestures about weight lifting as he speaks at a Republican volunteer recruitment event at Fervent, a Calvary Chapel, in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 8, 2023.  Mario Tama | Getty Images WASHINGTON — A New Jersey man who had his prison sentence for running a … Read more

FTC and DOJ lay out new rules for merger review to reflect a digital economy

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[ad_1] The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice said Wednesday that their new focus when evaluating mergers will include the impact a deal will have on competition for workers along with how a series of acquisitions, rather than one-offs, could result in harmful effects on the market. The new guidelines, currently in draft form, … Read more