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The US Justice Department's 'Operation Hard Ball' has cracked open a global criminal web linking jailed Punjab gangster Lawrence Bishnoi to assassinations, extortion, and drug trafficking across…
A pre-dawn landslide in Gansu's Tanchang County buried 33 people, killing 21 and injuring seven. With 345 rescuers and 10 search…
The DRC's Ebola outbreak has crossed 521 confirmed deaths with isolation beds at 94% capacity and over 92% of deaths occurring…
Nigel Farage has quit as an MP and called a by-election in Clacton — framing it as a public trial of his conduct. With Labour and…
Two IEDs exploded in central Damascus while Emmanuel Macron was on the first French presidential visit to Syria in over 15 years…
The US struck more than 80 Iranian targets on 7 July — including over 60 IRGC boats — after Iran attacked three commercial…
With four years left, the UN's own scorecard on the 2030 Agenda is damning: only 36% of SDG targets are on track, 15% have gone…
Venezuela's twin earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 have now claimed 3,685 lives, with over 17,900 homeless and tens of…
The US military launched direct strikes on Iran on 8 July after three commercial tankers — including a Saudi crude oil carrier…
