Aus leaders welcome expected plea that could bring Assange home
(): Australian leaders cautiously welcomed an expected plea agreement that could set free Julian Assange, who was pursued for years over WikiLeaks’ publication of a trove of classified documents. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday there was nothing to be gained by keeping the Australian incarcerated. A plane thought to be...
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange freed from UK prison
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Sunak withdraws party support from 2 over betting scandal
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Israeli SC says ultra-Orthodox men must serve in military
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Poland President visits China
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Iran, Bahrain to resume diplomatic ties
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Teenage Pak boy kills man over ‘blasphemy’
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‘PTI committed suicide when it decided to merge with SIC’
25 June 2024 | PTI
3 Columbia Univ admins put on leave over alleged text exchange at antisemitism panel
Columbia University said it has placed three administrators on leave while it investigates allegations that they exchanged unprofessional text messages while attending a panel discussion about antisemitism on campus. The university said the administrators work for its undergraduate Columbia College, which hosted the panel discussion “Jewish Life on Campus: Past, Present...
Chinese hackers step up attacks on Taiwanese orgs
A suspected Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has stepped up its targeting of Taiwanese organisations, particularly those in sectors such as government, education, technology and diplomacy, according to cybersecurity intelligence company Recorded Future. In recent years, relations between China and Taiwan, a self-governed island across the Taiwan Strait that Beijing claims as...
Russia summons American envoy over deadly attack
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador on Monday to protest what it says was the use of US-made advanced missiles in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-annexed Crimea that reportedly killed four people and wounded more than 150. Washington “has effectively become a party” to the war on Ukraine’s side,...
Armed militants kill priest and cops in Dagestan
(): Armed militants attacked two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a traffic police post in Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, killing a priest, a church security guard and at least six police officers, Russian state news agency Tass said on Sunday. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement that...
China, EU open to talks on plans to hike tariffs on Chinese EVs
China and the European Union are open to holding talks on the EU’s recent decision to sharply raise tariffs on imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles, officials from both sides say. China’s Commerce Ministry and Germany’s economy minister said over the weekend that each side was willing to hold talks on the...
EU targets Russia’s LNG ghost fleet in new round of sanctions
The European Union on Monday slapped new sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine, targeting Moscow’s shadow fleet of tankers moving liquefied natural gas through Europe as well as several companies. In a statement issued at a meeting of EU foreign ministers, the bloc said that it will “forbid reloading...
‘Ukraine won’t seek discount on entry commitments’
Ukraine’s top official for Europe says the war-torn country is on an “irreversible” course of Western integration after the European Union agreed to formally start entry negotiations this week. The decision to launch accession talks this week is a “big day” for her country, Olga Stefanishyna, the deputy prime minister for...
