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Lebanon parliament passes general amnesty law
Lebanon's parliament approved a broad amnesty law that reduces death and life sentences to 17 prison years (about 12 years and nine months served)…
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Japanese asset managers launch long-term JGB funds
Asset managers including Mitsubishi UFJ, Daiwa and Amova are offering investment trusts focused on long-dated Japanese government bonds as 30-year…
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Trump-Iran dispute raises oil prices to $87
Oil prices jumped about 5 percent to $87 per barrel after a dispute between President Donald Trump and Iran over reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and…
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Supreme Court upholds ruling ordering Nippon Steel to pay damages
South Korea's Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court order requiring Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel to pay a total of 80 million won to…
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Comac C919 begins first international commercial flight
The Comac C919, a narrow-body jet made by the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, will fly from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar on an Air…
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WMO says world saw joint second-warmest July
The World Meteorological Organization reported that July was the joint second-warmest on record, with the Copernicus Climate Change Service placing…
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Riot leases 191 megawatts to Anthropic in $9 billion deal
Bitcoin miner Riot Platform agreed to lease 191 megawatts at its Rockdale, Texas campus to AI developer Anthropic in a 20-year compute deal expected…
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Toronto jeweller consents to extradition to U.S.
Rolan Sokolovski, a Toronto jeweller accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of acting as a "de facto bank" for an alleged drug trafficking ring…
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Gold futures rise above $4,400 as inflation data loom
Gold December futures opened at $4,446.90 per troy ounce on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, up 0.6% from Monday, and were trading at $4,445.30 as of 7:40…
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Victims' families sue over parole board clemency policy
The Criminal Justice Legal Foundation and a coalition of victims' families filed a petition on July 15 in Sacramento Superior Court seeking to enjoin…
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Scientists grow and program human brain organoids
Scientists can reprogram adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells and grow them into brain organoids that produce brain waves and basic…
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Syrian court sentences Bashar al-Assad to death
A Syrian court has sentenced ousted president Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia after convicting him of war crimes and crimes against humanity…
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Violent crime falls in major US cities in first half 2026
An Axios analysis of the Major Cities Chiefs Association survey covering 66 large U.S. communities found violent crime categories down in the first…
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Chinese AI models improve typhoon forecasts
As Typhoon Dolphin neared China, Chinese-developed AI forecasting systems such as Shanghai AI Laboratory's Fengwu, Huawei's Pangu and Fudan…
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GM to sell EV battery joint venture stake to Samsung SDI
General Motors is poised to sell its half of a planned $3.5 billion electric-vehicle battery joint venture in Indiana to partner Samsung SDI…
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U.N. hears allegations Russia tortures Ukrainian prisoners
At an informal U.N. Security Council meeting, former Ukrainian detainees, Ukrainian officials and U.N. human rights monitors accused Russia of…
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SpaceX struggles to recover Starship upper stage
Starship flight 13 launched July 24 from Starbase, Texas, and the Super Heavy V3 booster suffered a partial engine ignition failure that caused a…
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London tube trials live facial recognition cameras
Transport for London and the British Transport Police will trial live facial recognition (LFR) cameras at selected London Underground stations…
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BlackRock signs labor deal to staff data centers and energy projects
BlackRock signed an agreement with organized labor to line up construction workers for new data centers and energy projects, framing the move as part…
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Scientists test circular slit spectrometer during solar eclipse
A group of scientists from Padua have spent weeks finishing a prototype called the Circular Slit Spectrometer (CISS) ahead of a decisive test at…
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UK warns public to view eclipse with colander
The UK government and health agencies have issued safety guidance ahead of a partial solar eclipse visible across the country on 12 August, when the…
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Moon will block sun along path across Arctic and Europe
A total solar eclipse is due on Wednesday, August 12, during which the moon will completely block the sun along a path that crosses the Arctic Ocean…
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Companies pursue space debris removal
Thousands of satellites and spent rocket stages are crowding low-Earth orbit, and a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage recently crashed into the moon…
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ConocoPhillips names Andy O'Brien as chief executive
ConocoPhillips announced that finance chief Andy O'Brien will become its new chief executive and join the board, succeeding Ryan Lance, who will…
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