Thu 30 October 2025: The Netherlands faces one of the tightest election outcomes in its history, with Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) and the centrist Democrats 66 (D66) virtually tied after Wednesday’s parliamentary elections. According to the latest forecast by Dutch news agency ANP, both PVV and D66 are projected to win 26 […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Earlier this year, the consumer watchdog fined three retailers, Michael Hill, MyHouse and Hairhouse Online, almost A$20,000 each for advertising “site-wide discounts” that allegedly never applied to all items on the website. At first glance, this might look like a straightforward case of using allegedly misleading advertising for an economic benefit. Yet […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The bank built the largest mall in the world, but also racked up massive debt and gave loans to insiders. Tehran, Iran – Authorities have merged one of Iran’s largest private lenders into the country’s biggest state-run bank in a move that highlights a deeply troubled economy and will further squeeze average […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: French authorities have arrested five more suspects in connection with the recent burglary at the Louvre Museum in Paris, judicial sources told RTL on Thursday. The five suspects were taken into custody simultaneously across several locations in the Paris region around 9 pm local time on Wednesday. One of the suspects […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: When Google and Amazon negotiated a massive $1.2bn cloud computing deal in 2021 with the Israeli government, a secret arrangement known as the “winking mechanism” was included, according to a new joint investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli publications +972 Magazine and Local Call. The secret warning system obligates the companies to […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The World Gold Council (WGC) reported on Thursday that global gold demand rose 3% year-on-year in Q3, hitting a quarterly all-time high. The demand, including over-the-counter (OTC) transactions, increased to 1,313 tons, reaching a value of $146 billion, WGC said in a statement. The robust growth was driven by increased investment […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: President Donald Trump declared on Thursday that he has directed the Defense Department to start nuclear weapons testing without delay. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump wrote on […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: US President Donald Trump said Thursday that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed during their highly-anticipated bilateral meeting not to impose rare earth export controls that rattled global markets and prompted threats of retaliation from the US leader. Trump said he and the Chinese president agreed on an “outstanding group of […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: The wife of UK journalist Sami Hamdi is calling for his release after he was detained earlier this week by US immigration officials when his visa was revoked for unsubstantiated “national security” reasons. “Our beloved Sami was abducted over the weekend by the US government because of his courageous and effective […]
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Thu 30 October 2025: Regional countries express alarm as more evidence emerges of mass killings by paramilitary forces in el-Fasher. Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, […]
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