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BRUSSELS, July 24 (Reuters) – The war in Ukraine and the looming U.S. presidential election dominated a NATO summit in Washington this month but, away from the public stage, the alliance’s military planners have been focused on assessing the enormous cost of fixing Europe’s creaking defences. NATO leaders agreed plans last year for the biggest…
Five bank ‘heists’ in a day as Lebanese demand their frozen savings
Five Lebanese banks were stormed Friday by depositors seeking to unlock frozen savings, the latest in a string of such “heists” in the crisis-hit country that have garnered wide public support. Lebanon has been mired in an economic crisis for more than two years, since the value of its currency began plummeting and banks started…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s arrest part of major investigation into app, French officials say
The arrest of Telegram co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov is part of a broader investigation into the social media app that is accused of allowing criminal activity to run rampant while failing to reliably cooperate with law enforcement, French prosecutors said. Durov, 39, is suspected of being complicit in global drug trafficking, pedophilia and fraud allegedly conducted on Telegram because…
Breaking News | News | UkraineUkraine says its counteroffensive now delayed; Britain says it’s sent cruise missiles to Kyiv
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces, saying that while such a campaign would succeed, too many of his troops’ lives would be lost KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks broadcast Thursday that Kyiv is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces because Ukraine…
More Cuba Sanctions as Pressure Builds
The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Cuba in the Trump administration’s latest move to ramp up pressure on the Communist-led Caribbean island, which is already facing fuel shortages and an economy in free fall. The fresh sanctions are set to be imposed on five entities as well as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife…
Bolivia signs lithium production deals with Russian, Chinese companies
Bolivia’s state-owned company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB) Thursday signed two separate agreements whereby Chinese and Russian companies will invest over US$1.4 billion to build two industrial complexes for the production of lithium carbonate, it was reported in La Paz. China’s Citic Guoan and Russia’s Uranium One Group — both with a major government stake…


