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Iran has confirmed that it held indirect talks with arch foe the United States in Oman despite the two countries having no diplomatic relations, state media reported. Washington and Tehran have long been sharply at odds with tensions centred on Iran’s contested nuclear programme and heightened by the Gaza war between their respective allies Israel and […]

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Tech billionaire Elon Musk landed Sunday on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali where he aims to launch his Starlink service to extend internet to remote areas of the country. Millions of people in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, are not currently hooked up to reliable internet services. Musk, making his first […]

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Tourists normally have to pay big money and brave cold climates for a chance to see an aurora, but last weekend many people around the world simply had to look up to see these colourful displays dance across the sky. Usually banished to the poles of Earth, the auroras strayed as far as Mexico, southern […]

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US President Joe Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan will travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel at the weekend for talks on the conflict in Gaza, the White House said Friday. Sullivan will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Saturday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, National Security Council spokesman […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday that Moscow would not comply with calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Summer Olympics, pointing to what he said was the unfair treatment of Russian athletes. Asked during a visit to China whether he backed French President Emmanuel Macron’s idea for a global “Olympic truce” during […]

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Three foreigners and an Afghan were killed on Friday in a shooting in Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan, the interior ministry said. “One Afghan and three foreigner nationals were killed, and four foreigners and three Afghans were wounded” in gunfire in Bamiyan city, interior ministry Abdul Mateen Qani, told AFP.

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Russia’s economy expanded by 5.4 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, the Rosstat state statistics agency said Friday, as military spending on the Ukraine offensive boosts growth. That was an acceleration from a rate of 4.9 percent recorded in the final quarter of 2023.

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Former US president Donald Trump attended his youngest son’s high school graduation on Friday after being granted a break from his criminal hush money trial in New York. Barron Trump, 18, was graduating from Oxbridge Academy in south Florida, and the Republican leader — who is running for a return to the White House — was pictured watching […]

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China cut the minimum down payment rate for first-time homebuyers on Friday and suggested the government could buy up commercial real estate, in some of Beijing’s most ambitious moves yet to lift the ailing housing market out of an unprecedented debt crisis. Property and construction accounts for more than a quarter of gross domestic product, […]

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Rockstar Games parent Take-Two Interactive on Thursday said the eagerly awaited video game “Grand Theft Auto VI” will be released in fall of 2025. Rockstar had previously said the next installment to the blockbuster franchise would be available next year, without further details. The “narrowing” of the release came in earnings figures from New York-based […]

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