Politics
Big Tech’s to-do list under new EU content rules
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s effort to crack down on illegal and harmful digital content in the bloc is about to take off. As soon…
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Conflict
Russia threatens to annex Georgia’s breakaway regions
Moscow could annex Georgia’s Russian-backed breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia, warned Kremlin security council Deputy Chair Dmitry Medvedev. The former Russian president and prime…
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Russia’s ‘General Armageddon’ sacked as head of aerospace forces
Sergei Surovikin, the former commander of Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine, has been dismissed as head of the country’s aerospace forces, according to Russian media.…
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Politics
UK antitrust enforcer to Microsoft: You can’t bully us
LONDON — In the high-stakes game of Big Tech deal-making, Microsoft — and not the British antitrust enforcer — blinked first. After enduring a fierce,…
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‘Daddy is in the building’ — Prigozhin resurfaces in Africa video
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has resurfaced in a video allegedly shot in an unnamed country in Africa and posted to a social media account with…
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Poland cleared for $12B attack helicopter deal with US
The U.S. government has agreed to the sale of Apache helicopters and related equipment worth $12 billion to Poland’s military, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation…
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UK forces Microsoft to restructure Activision deal
LONDON — Microsoft has been forced to restructure its takeover of Activision and renotify it to the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) after…
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Why the Meos of Mewat arouse Right Wing ire
By P.K.Balachandran/The Citizen Colombo, August 22: The communal rioting that rocked the Mewat region of North India this month, especially in Nuh district of Haryana,…
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Russia’s moon crash ‘raises the stakes’ for India’s successful landing
India’s lunar lander is working “perfectly,” the head of India’s space agency said Monday, just days after Russia crashed its spacecraft into the moon. The Chandrayaan-3…
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Politics
Ukraine’s needs-must approach won’t cut it with F-16 training
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Ukrainians are reacting with frustration, and in some cases fury, to reports that it could take until…
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