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Joyful Ethiopians and Eritreans embrace at rare border reopening
There have been celebrations at the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea as communities from the frontier villages came together for the…
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MTG Blows a Fuse After Trump “Bait and Switch” on Iran Strikes
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene somehow continues to be one of the most coherent and consistent right-wing voices against the U.S.…
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Hurricane season update: Tropical cyclone could form today
Forecasters are monitoring a system in the Atlantic that has the potential to strengthen into a "short-lived" tropical depression on…
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MAS turns down ex-NTUC Income CEO’s request to meet chairman Gan Kim Yong over Allianz matter
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said on Monday (Jun 23) that it has rejected former NTUC Income chief executive Tan Suee Chieh’s…
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Japanese megabanks weigh Middle East evacuations, JPMorgan limits travel
[TOKYO/NEW YORK] Several major Japanese banks are considering evacuating staff from the Middle East and Wall Street giant JPMorgan has…
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Rescue Teams Racing to Save 26-Year-Old Hiker Trapped for 3 Days Inside Walls of Active Volcano
NEED TO KNOW Brazilian tourist Juliana Marins fell off a cliff down Mount Rinjani in Indonesia on Saturday, June 21 The 26-year-old has…
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The Rich Should Be Paying More—and Yes, That Means Me
The last 50 years have been a sickening catastrophe for the working class, a slow-motion emergency that unfolded right under our noses.…
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US: Wall Street indices open muted as investors await Teheran’s response to US strikes
Wall Street’s main indices opened subdued on Monday (Jun 23) as investors awaited Iran’s possible response to US airstrikes on its nuclear…
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Lum Chang Creations lodges preliminary document for Catalist IPO
Interior fit-out business Lum Chang Creations has lodged a preliminary prospectus on Monday (Jun 23) for a Catalist listing on the…
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TCS launches new software-defined vehicle hubs in Europe
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced the launch of three new hubs in Europe to bolster its capabilities in the software-defined…
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Markets are calm, but streets are empty in spooked Gulf
Stocks are up and oil is down, a sign that investors view the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites as either a one-off, or a step toward…
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IAEA demands clarity on status of uranium in Iran
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, is demanding clarity from Iran on the whereabouts of nuclear…
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Transcript: Trump Threat to Unleash Troops Darkens as Brutal Poll Hits
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 23 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Private-hire group urges Grab to delay bonus revamp over fears that drivers’ earnings will be hurt
The National Private Hire Vehicles Association (NPHVA) has urged Grab to delay changes to its driver incentive scheme, saying it is…
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Toyota launches fuel cell trucks for greener logistics
Toyota Motor Europe has taken a step towards sustainable logistics with the introduction of fuel cell trucks in collaboration with VDL…
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Contributor: The GOP wants to turn asylum into a pay-to-play system
The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” now before the Senate takes the current preoccupation with making every governmental relationship…
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Are Young People Having Enough Sex?
The virgin allegations emerged about a decade ago. Young people “are so sexually inactive that it practically boggles the mind,” a writer…
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This Is Donald Trump’s War, and It’s Only the Beginning
President Donald Trump has just committed the most basic of strategic blunders: the fallacy of the last move. This is the mistaken belief…
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Bach’s Colossus
Bach’s Mass in B Minor begins with a majestic howl of pain—four adagio bars that combine formal grandeur with writhing interior lines, as…
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Do We Need Another Green Revolution?
“Carbon farming and vertical farming are wildly overhyped,” Grunwald concludes. “Plant-based meat has floundered in the market, while…
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Christoph Niemann’s “The Bridge”
“The real beauty of the Brooklyn Bridge can only be experienced in motion,” the artist Christoph Niemann said, about his cover for the…
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Singapore stocks fall amid mixed regional trading following US strikes on Iran
Local stocks ended lower on Monday (Jun 23) amid a mixed trading session in the region, after the US launched strikes on three of Iran’s…
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Irish evacuees from Israel expected home in 'coming days'
A group of 15 Irish citizens and their dependants have been evacuated from Israel, the Irish government has said. Tánaiste (deputy Irish…