Category: World
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Russia has detained Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent Yuki Imai in Sakhalin on espionage charges carrying up to twenty years. No evidence has been published, and Russian espionage trials are held largely in closed session.
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Student protests in Tirana have turned violent as the self-named Flamingo Revolution escalates. We know less about this than we would like, and say so — Albanian student movements have twice reshaped the country’s politics.
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Hardline MPs want Iran’s foreign minister impeached for meeting a US envoy without authorisation. The head of the Supreme National Security Council says the talks were approved. Both cannot be right — and that is the story.
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Two commercial vessels hit in 24 hours — one off Qatar, one off Fujairah — both outside the Strait of Hormuz. A party losing an attritional fight in a confined space has every incentive to enlarge the space.
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Indian factory workers are being asked to wear head cameras so the footage can train robots to do their jobs. What’s being captured is tacit skill they could never have written into a manual — and it doesn’t exist unless somebody records it.
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Confirmed Ebola cases in DR Congo have passed 9,000 with over 4,300 deaths, up roughly 40 per cent in five weeks. The circulating species is Bundibugyo — the one the licensed vaccines were not built for.
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The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV, 71, has lung cancer and had surgery on Tuesday to remove a growth. The type and stage have not been disclosed — and there is no mechanism in canon law for declaring a pope incapacitated.
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Unions put Tuesday’s turnout near half a million, and the Justice Ministry says more than 6,800 people have been held, most of them minors. The unions joining is exactly the escalation that makes French student protests hard to wait out.
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Three killed and 21 injured in Kyiv, and 600,000 Ukrainians left without electricity. Zelensky called it disrespect toward American peace efforts — a phrase aimed at Washington rather than Moscow.
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A copilot is accused of stabbing his captain and trying to crash an airliner bound for Israel. Aviation security is built almost entirely around keeping threats out of the cockpit — and the pilots are the people the locked door protects.