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U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his call for a physical audit of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox this weekend, citing the FBI’s arrest of a former CIA official found with approximately $40 million in gold bars at his Virginia home.
The Israeli military says everyone south of the Zahrani river should leave, after it captured the strategic Beaufort Castle.
Maj Gen Rabe Abubakar's kidnapping highlights continuing security challenges facing parts of the country.
So far, five men have been freed from the narrow, flooded cave but efforts are ongoing to locate two more.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has proposed letting SMEs use digital assets, virtual assets and intellectual property as loan collateral.
According to media reports, the team's departure for Mexico on Sunday has been delayed due to an "administrative bungle".
The election is held after months of public recrimination between current left-wing President Gustavo Petro and his US counterpart Donald Trump.
Article URL: https://economist.com/interactive/essay/2026/05/28/the-dangerous-delusion-of-modern-warfare
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Shinjiro Koizumi makes some of Tokyo's most pointed remarks yet in the dispute over Japan's military build-up.
Will Grant spoke to a 70-year-old widow who says the inability to use her building's elevator during a power outage trapped her and her husband when he needed medical care.
From enigmatic KGB agent to wartime ruler, this is how Putin has repeatedly reinvented his image, and himself.
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5828768/science-funding-cuts-nih-trump-administration
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Prediction market platform Kalshi has filed a federal lawsuit to block a first-in-the-nation Minnesota law that would make operating or advertising prediction markets a felony, escalating a nationwide fight over who regulates the fast-growing sector.
Farmers report thousands of mice per hectare destroying crops and invading homes.
Ecuadorian leader Daniel Noboa offers to cancel tariffs after speaking to a right-wing presidential candidate ahead of Sunday's vote.
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Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157327/Hormuz-crisis-side-effect-a-sharp-rise-in-container-shipping-rates
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Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-aliens-gov-us-citizens-arrested/
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Article URL: https://musings.martyn.berlin/lets-talk-about-eu-sovereignty
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Performers Young MC, Poison frontman Bret Michaels and country singer Martina McBride raised concerns the event will be political.
People have just begun returning to check on their homes in the block that was hit early on Friday morning.
A Russian drone hit a block of flats in Romania on Friday, causing a fire and injuring two people, Romanian officials say.
Local authorities say the cancellation of other West concerts had played a role in the decision.
Every president in modern history - including Donald Trump this week - has taken an annual physical exam that is as much about messaging as it is about health.
The BBC is in Seoul, where tattooist from all over the country have gathered to celebrate their art, following decades of underground work.
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism
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Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.
Two of the seven villagers who entered the narrow tunnels in search for gold on 20 May are still missing.
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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/
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