TikTok may be facing a ban in the U.S. if its activities there remain under the control of Chinese parent company ByteDance, but NATO does not appear to have read the memo. The Brussels-based North Atlantic Treaty Organization has invited top UK TikToker Dylan Page to next week’s Washington Summit marking the 75th anniversary of...
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Top 10 world news: UK general election results; Iran elections; Wimbledon 2024 updates; and more
Keir Starmer addressed the nation after the Labour Party won the UK General Election with some 412 seats, an increase of 211, while the Conservatives, lost about 250 lawmakers, including a record number of senior ministers and former prime minister Liz Truss. In Iran, polls have opened on Friday in a presidential runoff a week...
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Ukraine war: Ukraine’s troops withdraw from district in key hilltop city
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Top Hezbollah commander killed in his car by precision Israeli airstrike
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said “an enemy drone targeted a car” in Tyre, a coastal city about 12 miles from the border. The first source said Nasser had the same rank as Taleb Abdallah, a commander killed in an Israeli strike last month who was described by a Lebanese military source at the...
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Ukraine to be told it is too corrupt to join Nato
Joe Biden raised “significant corruption” in an interview with Time magazine this year, during which he ruled out supporting the “Nato-isation of Ukraine”. Nato diplomats and officials have given Ukraine a list of reforms it will be expected to carry out before its membership ambitions can be realised, a US defence official said. “That’s something...
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Ukraine-Russia war: Russia ‘studying captured ATACMS’
Ukraine’s convicts have been offered a chance of freedom but first they must fight at the front for Russia. “You can put an end to this and start a new life,” said an army recruiter over the weekend at a rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine. “The main thing is your will, because you are...
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Trump v Biden latest: Top donors turn on president
Major Democrat party donors have turned on Joe Biden following his disastrous performance in the first US presidential debate, with one adviser saying the only options now were that he “bows out or dies”. Donors have urged Mr Biden to step aside, suggesting California’s Gavin Newsom and Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer as potential replacements amid rising...
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Battle Lines: Wikileaks’ impact, China’s crackdown in Tibet, Gaza update
Across the world, from Europe to Asia, from the Americas to the Middle East, tensions are rising between nation states as the traditional alliances and alignments evolve in the 21st century. This year sees war in Europe and the Middle East, and elections in major economies, from the US and the UK to Taiwan. Insurgencies...
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Attempted Bolivia coup farcically unravels as top general arrested –then claims he was told to launch it
Bolivian soldiers used an armoured troop carrier to smash their way into the presidential palace on Wednesday in an apparent attempted coup. After battering down the vast wooden doors, heavily-armed soldiers surged into the building in the centre of the capital La Paz. Inside, President Luis Arce confronted the army’s former top officer, Juan José...
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Meloni accuses EU of acting like an ‘oligarchy’ with appointment of top jobs
Giorgia Meloni accused European leaders of acting like “an oligarchy” by stitching together backroom deals to divvy up the EU’s top jobs. Addressing parliament in Rome, the Italian prime minister accused the EU establishment of continuing to act as if the political landscape had not changed after the European elections, held in early June, which...
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War crimes warrant issued for Russian military chiefs
“During this timeframe, a large number of strikes against numerous electric power plants and sub-stations were carried out by the Russian armed forces in multiple locations in Ukraine. “The expected incidental civilian harm and damage would have been clearly excessive to the anticipated military advantage,” the court added. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said the fresh...
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Top 10 world news: Swiss Court sentences UK’s Hinduja family; Kejriwal to stay in jail, and more
Four members of the Hinduja family were sentenced to up to four and a half years in prison after a Swiss court found that they had exploited domestic workers at their Geneva villa. The criminal court, however, acquitted the billionaire’s family members charged of illegal human trafficking of their servants, primarily illiterate Indians. In other...