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iD Fresh Foods charts global expansion with 10 manufacturing hubs

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-14T15:27:24+00:00

The expansion comes as the Bengaluru-headquartered company, which crossed the ₹600-crore revenue mark in FY25, prepares for a potential public listing around October FY27

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US rapper Boosie seeks $300,000 refund after failed Trump pardon bid

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T15:21:51+00:00

The rapper paid $600,000 to JM Burkman & Associates, but the firm says no partial refund was promisedLouisiana rapper Boosie Badazz is reportedly looking to claw back $300,000 from a firm of Washington DC lobbyists after they failed to secure a Donald Trump pardon that he hired them to pursue over his conviction on charges of possessing a loaded weapon at music video shooting in 2023.Boosie – whose legal name is Torence Hatch and who hails from his home state’s capital of Baton Rouge – paid JM Burkman & Associates $600,000 in 2025 to advance his push for a pardon from the US president,

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A Japanese wake-up call for America

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-14T15:19:48+00:00

Crisis ahead. Japan’s currency and bond market woes are a result of its unsustainable public debt. The other Western nations must pay heed

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E Jean Carroll receives $5.6m owed by Trump after court releases damages

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T15:12:30+00:00

Funds released from escrow account after Trump’s efforts to block sexual abuse and defamation award failA Manhattan federal court has released more than $5.6m that Donald Trump owes E Jean Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation trial against him, records reveal. The disbursement, made public in a 14 July entry on Carroll’s case docket, indicates that the funds were released by a court-held account on 9 July – one day after judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of this money. Trump has denied wrongdoing. “Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump

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Young Germans opting out of military service as Berlin strives to boost army

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T15:08:02+00:00

Almost 6,000 people apply to be excluded on moral or religious grounds despite ‘conscription lite’ policy The number of young men applying to be conscientious objectors and refuse armed military service in Germany has risen sharply this year, undermining a drive by Berlin to create Europe’s strongest conventional army and deter the Russian threat.More people had applied to exclude themselves from service on religious or moral grounds in the first half of 2026 than in the whole of last year, according to figures provided by the government on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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Kash Patel gave his Australian counterpart a 3D replica gun as a gift. It was destroyed within months

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T15:00:29+00:00

Documents show the FBI director’s gift was ‘displayed proudly’ by the AFP before new commissioner ordered it be destroyedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhen the FBI director, Kash Patel, visited the Australian federal police last year, he came bearing a gift: a 3D-printed imitation pistol that then was “displayed proudly” in the commissioner’s office.Yet within months, shortly after Krissy Barrett became the AFP’s new commissioner last October, she ordered it to be destroyed. Continue reading...

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David Penman wasn’t happy with his local Victorian council. So, he privately prosecuted five councillors

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T15:00:28+00:00

Legal action by the Daylesford small business owner has forced councillors to stand down – leaving only two able to serveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDavid Penman wasn’t happy.The Daylesford small business owner didn’t like the work of his local council. So, using little-known laws that force elected officials to stand down, he essentially stopped it from making any big decisions. Continue reading...

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France deploys 70,000 security personnel across country for Bastille Day, World Cup semifinal events – as it happened

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T15:00:03+00:00

‘No unruly behaviour will be tolerated’ after the match, according to France’s interior ministerHere is the first big moment of the day as the Garde républicaine plays the French national anthem, “La Marseillaise”.Macron is not singing, but Lecornu behind him – very much is. Continue reading...

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UK man admits 32 sexual offences against allegedly drugged or sleeping partner

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T14:58:07+00:00

Defendant pleads guilty to crimes over the course of 12 years, some of which also involved ‘a person unknown’A man has been told he faces a possible life sentence after pleading guilty to 32 sexual offences against his girlfriend while she was allegedly drugged or asleep, including some attacks he recorded.The defendant, aged in his 40s, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Northampton crown court on Tuesday where he admitted the offences which happened over more than a decade between January 2014 and September last year. Continue reading...

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : Volodymyr Zelensky déclare avoir conclu « un accord important » avec la France en matière de défense

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-07-14T14:55:37+00:00

Le président ukrainien, qui décrit cet accord comme un élément de « coopération de défense avec l’Ukraine », a affirmé avoir obtenu des licences pour la production d’armes. Il a également confirmé les propos d’Emmanuel Macron concernant l’acquisition par Kiev de 16 avions de combat Rafale.

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Direct tax collection jumps 16% to ₹6.5 lakh crore

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-14T14:50:43+00:00

This momentum was led by net corporate tax collections, which surged over 22% to approximately ₹2.40 lakh crore, while net personal income tax (non-corporate) collections grew by around 12% to ₹3.85 lakh crore

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Anand Rathi Share Q1 revenue rises 22.37% y-o-y

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-14T14:49:51+00:00

Assets under management rose 26% to ₹9,479.1 crore, strengthening the company’s recurring revenue potential

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«Союз МС-29» стартовал с Байконура к МКС

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-07-14T14:48:37+00:00

Ракета «Союз-2.1а» с пилотируемым кораблем «Союз МС-29» стартовала с Байконура. На борту –  космонавт Роскосмоса, командир Петр Дубров, космонавт Роскосмоса, борт-инженер Анна Кикина и астронавт NASA, второй борт-инженер Анил Менон. Корабль доставит на МКС экипаж 75-й экспедиции и научную аппаратуру, большая часть которой предназначена для проведения медико-биологических и биотехнологических исследований.

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MRF ranked India’s most valuable and strongest tyre brand

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-14T14:46:14+00:00

The Brand Finance India 100 - 2026 report recognises the country’s most influential and valuable brands, with the combined value of the Top 100 crossing $236.5 billion this year

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Neka Sulaiman to lead HiLITE Group’s hospitality expansion

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-07-14T14:37:46+00:00

The appointment is an important step in HiLITE Group’s next phase of growth, as the Group expands its presence beyond retail, residential, commercial and business infrastructure projects into the hospitality sector

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‘Catastrophic failure’: UK Covid families welcome inquiry findings on PPE

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T14:34:33+00:00

Campaigners feel vindicated by some of report’s conclusions but are unconvinced by its verdict on VIP laneIn the slightly incongruous setting of south London’s splendid Kia Oval cricket stadium, Naomi Fulop gathered her strength to give the assembled British media her response to the damning findings of Heather Hallett’s latest Covid inquiry report.Reading a statement from her mobile phone, her voice quivering just a little, as fellow members of the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice (CBFFJ) group stood alongside her, Fulop recalled the terrible time when her mother died from coronavirus in J

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New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-07-14T14:34:05+00:00

Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilitiesNew York became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday.Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products. Continue reading...

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