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US: Wall St opens lower as Israel-Iran conflict hits risk appetite
Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Friday (Jun 13) after Israel’s deadly strike on Iranian nuclear facilities inflamed tensions in…
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Trump Threatens Iran’s Total Annihilation After Israel Attack
Israel bombed several Iranian cities and nuclear sites early Friday, and Donald Trump has done nothing but inflame the situation. In a…
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A White Sox cap at the Vatican? Pope Leo XIV is 'like any other guy in Chicago on the South Side'
Pope Leo XIV is a huge Chicago White Sox fan. It’s a good thing too — otherwise the event being thrown in his honor at the team’s home…
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UK government confirms no military support given for Israel’s attack on Iran
Britain did not provide military support to Israel’s attack on Iran or help down Iranian drones, the UK government has said, as the prime…
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Alibaba movie unit’s pivot, rebrand bring US$2 billion value gain
DAMAI Entertainment Holdings, formerly Alibaba Pictures Group, is shifting its focus from movies production to faster-growing…
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Thakral associate GemLife inks underwriting agreement for Australian IPO launching ‘very shortly’
The company holds an effective interest of 31.7 per cent in GemLife, a lifestyle resorts business in Australia Mainboard-listed Thakral…
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Hong Kong-listed ESR gets shareholders’ nod for privatisation
Shareholders of ESR Group on Friday (Jun 13) approved the scheme resolution proposed by a consortium of investors to acquire and privatise…
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'Traffic saved me': Student missed Air India flight by just 10 minutes
Bhoomi Chauhan remembers being angry and frustrated. Bumper-to-bumper traffic had delayed her car journey to Ahmedabad airport - so much…
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Transcript: Trump Blurts Out a Dark MAGA Truth, Handing Dems a Weapon
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the June 13 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is…
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Nigeria pardons activist Ken Saro-Wiwa 30 years after execution
Nigeria's president has pardoned the late activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, 30 years after his execution sparked global outrage. Along with eight…
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Google Cloud and Digital Industry Singapore launch programme to spearhead AI development among companies
Digitally-mature companies keen on doing more in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) will now have the opportunity to tap a new…
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“Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures
Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking pictures, most…
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How Trump’s Obsession With Weight Explains His Misrule
When President Donald Trump addressed Army troops June 10 at Fort Bragg, his audience was screened for political leanings and physical…
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Diane Arbus and the Too-Revealing Detail
A photographer’s legacy, though, is not like a painter’s: Arbus didn’t leave signed prints hanging around, like canvases drying in a…
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What Trump Missed at the Kennedy Center Production of “Les Mis”
On Wednesday evening, when the new Czar of All the Arts, Donald Trump, went to see “Les Misérables”—which is, we are told, along with…
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Do Androids Dream of Anything at All?
Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages—with sixteenth-century folktales about…
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Ranked-Choice Voting in NYC Faces Its Make-or-Break Moment
“We are seeing more mayoral candidates talk about ranked-choice voting earlier,” she said. “It’s more of a dialog with the voters. It also…
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Celine Song’s “Materialists” Tries to Subvert the Rom-Com
In Lucy’s line of work, everything begins with the quantitative. Client lists of nonnegotiables read like a barrage of demographic data,…
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Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off
This has been the season of the star. For months now, possibly because the film and television industries spent 2024 in disarray, New York…
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The Lost Dances of Paul Taylor
If a dance isn’t performed for a long time, it starts to disappear. People’s memories of it fade, and videos can be…
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David Plunkert’s “On Parade”
Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream…
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Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth About Stephen Miller’s Ugly, Hateful Aims
Stephen Miller had a shouting match Thursday with a GOP senator over Miller’s demand for massive funds for deportations, which Republicans…
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Israel launches withering attack on Iran, spurring retaliation and fears of all-out war
AMMAN — Israel launched a punishing air campaign on Iran early Friday, killing some of the upper echelons of Iran’s military leadership…
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Creating Silver Linings: Why We Should Build Opportunity From Adversity
In life’s most challenging moments, we often hear well-meaning advice to “look for the silver lining.” While finding positive aspects…