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Grenades, grief and a deepening political divide: five takeaways from Sonia Gandhi’s new memoir

From the assassinations of her husband and mother-in-law to press stonewalling under Modi, Belonging offers an insider’s account of India’s political evolution• Don’t get This is India delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereFew love stories have been as closely entwined with a nation’s history as that of Sonia and Raj…

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Nvidia and Jensen Huang sued by shareholders over affair with alleged Chinese spy

California lawsuit comes as Donald Trump says FBI is investigating tech CEO’s links with Alice HuangNvidia’s board needs to do some succession planning – sharpishNvidia and its chief executive, Jensen Huang, have been accused of misleading shareholders in a lawsuit over the Chinese spying scandal engulfing the $4.3t…

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Iran's missile industry 'more homegrown than Persian carpets', IRGC adviser says

Iran's missile industry 'more homegrown than Persian carpets', IRGC adviser says A senior adviser to the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force indicated that Tehran's missile industry is self-sufficient and is able to rely on its own domestic production and resources. Brigadier G…

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Seoul shares soar over 4% to snap 3-day slide on tech rally, oil prices fall

South Korean stocks finished more than 4 percent higher Tuesday to snap their three consecutive sessions of sharp decline, driven by strong gains in technology shares as oil prices dropped sharply on hopes for the possible end of the war in the Middle East. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index closed up 2…

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AFP to Sara Duterte: Defending WPS is not picking fight with China

MANILA, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Tuesday said defending the country’s rights in the West Philippine Sea did not amount to picking a fight with China, following Vice President Sara Duterte’s call for the government to avoid confrontation with Beijing. AFP spokesperson for the West Ph…

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Many defectors see daughter of North Korea's Kim as heir apparent

SEOUL, South Korea — Until she fled North Korea three years ago, Kim Yumi felt deeply frustrated whenever state TV showed leader Kim Jong Un with his young daughter. The message, she felt, was clear and worrying: North Korea was laying the groundwork for an eventual hereditary transfer of power, this time to Kim's d…

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The Arab vote in the Israeli elections

The Arab vote in the Israeli elections Two weeks after Israel held its first general elections since October 2023, opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has been tasked with forming a government. The election saw a historic voter turnout for Palestinian citizens of Israel, who headed to the ballot for one reason: to oust …

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Soul Patrol review – heart stopping story of Vietnam’s first Black special ops team

Based on a 2003 memoir, this remarkable documentary shows the incredible bravery these young men showed in the face of battle and unrelenting bigotryHere is the remarkable story of the US army’s “Soul Patrol” unit in the Vietnam war: the all-Black Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol (or LURP), a six-man team of largely…

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Shower orgasms, golf carts, spread-eagled on the stairs – it’s the 10 best Rivals sex scenes so far

From naked tennis to Richter-scale juddering near wildfowl, Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster features a whopping 33 romps. Ahead of season two’s return this week, gird your loins as we celebrate the busiest buttocks in Rutshire Rejoice! Rejoice! Five months after it staggered off with its leotard around its ankles, Rivals …

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Walk the talk: a week learning French with a personal prof in Normandy

Hiring a personal tutor to learn French as we explore the beautiful city of Rouen proves a refreshing and affordable alternative to language schoolI’m walking beside the River Seine in the French city of Rouen when I realise that I’ve been speaking French – without pausing to find a word or struggle with grammar – f…

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Gen Z doesn‘t relish going to war – so what! You should worry more about the reckless generations that do | Jason Okundaye

The right has found a new way to denigrate young people, but it is fatuous to assume that Britons of any age would not protect what is dear to them Young people won’t go to war for Britain. So claimed numerous headlines last week, responding to findings in the British Social Attitudes survey. Except that the phrasin…

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Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen

Redesigned flagship laptop has a fantastic display, killer performance and the first touchscreen on a Mac, but comes with a serious price tagApple’s MacBook Pro has been redesigned for the first time in five years, getting slightly slimmer, significantly lighter and adding a fantastic new OLED display with the first…

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Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe review – what can music tell us about national identity?

The unlikely friendship between French and English composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams has inspired a tender and generous novelIn 1907, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams confided to the critic Edwin Evans that he was finding his own music “lumpy and stodgy”. His musical education at the Royal College of…

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‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes

Seven films in Seville programme highlight how Roma are creating their own narrativesGrowing up in Romania, whenever Alina Șerban spotted Roma people on television or in movies, they were usually cast as villains or depicted as somehow exotic.But this week the Romany actor and film-maker is part of a cohort pushing …

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FedEx adds new US-China cargo flights ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

American delivery giant FedEx is expanding its trans-Pacific services between China and the United States, adding four weekly flights by cargo aircraft just days ahead of an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump in Shenzhen. The Memphis-based courier said on Monday that Boeing 7…

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Korea Investment & Securities teams up with Morgan Stanley on global investments

Korea Investment & Securities has teamed up with Morgan Stanley Investment Management to give Korean investors exclusive access to its global market research and expand its overseas investment offerings. The Korean brokerage said Tuesday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the US asset manager to strengthen…

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'Clownery & Consequences': France Bows To The Reality Of Its Debt Crisis

'Clownery & Consequences': France Bows To The Reality Of Its Debt Crisis Authored by Thomas Kolbe via American Thinker,Tax-advantaged bonds reserved for French citizens, a debt write-off at the ECB, or shifting part of the bill onto the Germans -- France's approach to its national debt is at times creative, at times…

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Can K-beauty smooth out 'tech neck' wrinkles?

There is an idea that one can tell someone's age based on their neck wrinkles, so K-beauty is now trying its hand at a solution for smoothing out the lines. The neck is emerging as a new focus for antiaging skincare, with K-beauty brands releasing more products designed to address wrinkles, loss of elasticity and dr…

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