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Germany has blocked the sale of a Volkswagen subsidiary to China on national security grounds, in a new blow to the already tense relationship with its largest trading partner. MAN Energy Solutions, part of the Volkswagen Group, said in June 2023 that it planned to sell its gas turbine business to Chinese state-owned CSIC Longjiang […]

According to Ukraine’s military intelligence service, a saboteur was responsible for the damage to a Russian ship. According to officials, the Serpukhov was set on fire in April, damaging much of its interior. Ukraine stated that the saboteur was a member of a special legion of Russians fighting for Ukraine. A Russian dissident secretly working

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Swedish Foreign Ministry said Thursday it will summon the Iraqi charge d’affaires to Stockholm to protest the death sentences Swedes have received in Iraq. Last month, Stockholm protested against death sentence given to a Swede. Two more cases were confirmed on Thursday, bringing the total to at least three Swedes

The European Union has made good on its threat to impose provisional import duties of up to 37.6% on electric cars from China, the EU body reported in the Official Journal on Thursday. Chinese companies affected include BYD, a major sponsor of the 2024 European football tournament in Germany, which will have to pay tariffs

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on people to fight against rising anti-Semitism in Germany, during the opening of a new synagogue in Potsdam, just outside Berlin. “I am determined not to rest, so that we in our country can do everything we can to protect Jewish life and combat all forms of anti-Semitism,” Steinmeier said. “Jewish

A severe heat wave has battered Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, for the third week in a row, filling hospitals with patients and morgues with morgues, officials and rescue workers said Thursday. More than 50 people have died from heatstroke since the start of the latest wave last month, police spokeswoman Summiya Syed said. Dozens of

A man who smuggled €8.4 million (£7.1 million) of cocaine from France to Ireland has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. The company’s 56-year-old former director, Tim Gilchrist, of Mavis Bank, Newrath in County Waterford, was arrested with 120kg of drugs in his car after landing a Cessna aircraft at Abbeyshrule Aerodrome in County

The Karnataka Independent Garment Workers Union (KIGWU) staged a protest at Shahi Exports following the tragic death of Kiran BM on June 24 due to suicide. KIGWU demands an immediate end to intimidation and harassment of workers following the incident. It is also alleged that the factory “lacks even the basic facilities stipulated under the

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court on Thursday sentenced an Australian man to six months of medical rehabilitation after he was found guilty of possessing methamphetamine on the tourist island of Bali. Troy Andrew Smith, from Port Lincoln in South Australia, was arrested on April 30 after police searched his hotel in Legian, a