Category: 4. World

1. India’s Narendra Modi celebrates a return to dominance  Financial Times
2. Modi’s party wins control of India’s West Bengal in a key state election  NBC News
3. West Bengal verdict: With Mamata’s nemesis Suvendu Adhikari, Amit Shah plotted her…

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1. More details emerge on hantavirus patients on cruise ship  CIDRAP
2. Masks, movies and solo deck walks: life aboard a hantavirus-hit cruise ship  CNN
3. Hantavirus outbreak live: Cruise ship hit by deadly virus headed to Canary Islands  The Independent

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1. Amid hiring push, State Dept finalizes hundreds of layoffs initiated last summer  Federal News Network
2. State moves forward with foreign service officer layoffs in blow to civil service  The Hill
3. Exiled from State, America’s foreign service holds…

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1. Czechs pack Prague’s Old Town Square to protest government media plans  Reuters
2. Tens of thousands rally in Prague to defend independence of Czech public media  Expats.cz
3. Czechs Rally Against Threatened Media Independence  Devdiscourse
4. Czech news in…

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1. Ex-US spy for Israel calls for Gaza ethnic cleansing as he seeks Knesset seat  The Guardian
2. Ex-spy Jonathan Pollard says he’s entering politics, slams Netanyahu and Bennett  The Times of Israel
3. Jonathan Pollard, once jailed in US for spying, says…

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1. US-Iran truce teeters on meltdown as stalemate takes toll on each side  The Guardian
2. UAE comes under Iranian attacks for second consecutive day: Ministry  Al Jazeera
3. Why Iran’s Attack On Fujairah Matters For Energy Markets  WSJ
4. UAE reports more…

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1. UAE air defences engage missiles, drones; Tehran denies attacking UAE  Reuters
2. US-Iran truce teeters on meltdown as stalemate takes toll on each side  The Guardian
3. UAE comes under Iranian attacks for second consecutive day: Ministry  Al Jazeera
4. UAE…

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The Gulf is bracing itself for what could be a major escalation in the Iran war. Attacks against the UAE took place on Monday, the first since the ceasefire was announced in April.

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1. Romanian prime minister loses confidence vote in parliament  dw.com
2. ‘With calm, we will get through this’: Romanian president speaks out after government collapses – as it happened  The Guardian
3. Romania Lets Leu Weaken as Politics Again Tests…

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1. How hantavirus may have spread aboard a cruise ship, according to health experts  CBS News
2. Cruise Ship Struck by Hantavirus Is to Head to Canary Islands, W.H.O. Says  The New York Times
3. Cruise ship with hantavirus outbreak to sail to Canary…

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