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19 million barrels of oil transited through Hormuz on Monday: Trump

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-24T04:34:03+00:00

Oil prices ticked lower Tuesday with Brent crude futures, the international benchmark, fell 45 cents to $77.45 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate futures decline 34 cents to $73.52

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Australia politics live: Ted O’Brien dismisses ‘silly’ debate over monoculturalism; Coalition targets Labor over inflation in question time

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:29:08+00:00

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRuston pushes for overhaul to controversial aged care toolOver to her portfolio, the shadow health and aged care minister, Anne Ruston, will introduce a private member’s bill to change the government’s controversial integrated assessment tool.The three things it seeks to do is to restore the discretion of a human assessor to make sure that the algorithm in their professional judgment doesn’t make an error. It also requires greater transparency so that every decision that’s made, the person can know how the algo

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Rupee falls 10 paise to 94.86 against US dollar in early trade

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-24T04:24:08+00:00

A sharp decline in global crude oil prices and FII inflows supported the local unit to prevent a sharper decline, forex traders said

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Trump administration touts Iran deal as payday for US farmers, Iran denies it

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-24T04:04:03+00:00

Sanctions experts are unsure how billions of dollars' worth of Iranian assets would make their way to the American heartland from the escrow accounts where they have been locked for years by US sanctions

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Markets open cautiously; Tech stocks lead gains, Bajaj Auto drags

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-24T04:03:59+00:00

Sensex, which closed at 76,200.68 on Tuesday, opened at 76,229.76 and was trading at 76,338.00, up 137.32, as of 9.17 AM. Nifty 50, which ended at 23,824.10, opened at 23,795.80 and was quoting at 23,856.55, up 32.45 points

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With a Turkish ‘Abrazo,’ Istanbul Ascends as a Tango Capital

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:01:23+00:00

Istanbul’s many tango schools, clubs and skilled dancers have won the city recognition, even among Argentine maestros, as a global tango destination.

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Myanmar’s Civil War Has Become an Apocalypse

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:01:21+00:00

Overshadowed by conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the fighting in Myanmar’s isolated heartland has reached new depths.

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Myanmar’s Civil War Has Become an Apocalypse

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:01:21+00:00

Overshadowed by conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, the fighting in Myanmar’s isolated heartland has reached new depths.

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What to Know About Myanmar’s Chaotic War

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:01:06+00:00

The Southeast Asian nation recently experienced its highest monthly civilian death toll since the war began in 2021.

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Different sperm whale ‘dialects’ detected on separate sides of the Mediterranean

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:00:36+00:00

Matriarchal groups in east and west exhibit distinct click patterns, used to form social structuresFrom “Howdy” to “G’day”, English – like other languages – is rich in dialects. Now researchers have found sperm whales on different sides of the Mediterranean show similar variations in their vocalisations.Sperm whales communicate vocally using sequences of short clicks called codas. However, the rhythmic pattern of these clicks, known as the dialect, can differ between different matriarchal groups. Continue reading...

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Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields gives up secrets of its stones

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:00:36+00:00

Church marks 300 years with exhibition and online archive telling of UK’s first Black voters, and history of compassion and protestFrom a family of chimney sweeps including one of Britain’s two earliest documented Black voters, to the mystery of a 19-year-old youth believed enslaved, St Martin-in-the-Fields church on Trafalgar Square still has secrets to share as it marks its 300th anniversary.Standing at the heart of London’s political and cultural life for three centuries, its ranks of engraved memorial stones set into the floor and walls of the crypt and cafe are yielding glimpses into long

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Play puts spotlight on Kenya’s crisis of gender-based violence

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:00:35+00:00

Autobiographical work Free Me aims to encourage victims to speak out in country where violence against women is risingThere are audible gasps in the auditorium in Nairobi as a husband launches a volley of blows and slaps on his wife and pushes her to the floor. “I wish I could spare you this,” the wife tells the audience. “My husband beat me up as if we were in a bar fight. Except, in a bar someone fights back.”The scene comes from Free Me, an autobiographical play by Gathoni Kimuyu, a Kenyan theatre and TV producer who lived through an abusive marriage. Continue reading...

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Comment les Suédois sont devenus les champions européens du boursicotage

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-24T04:00:29+00:00

Alors que l’Union européenne cherche des capitaux pour financer la transition écologique ou la défense, le royaume scandinave est donné en exemple en raison du dynamisme de sa Bourse, où presque tous les habitants ont placé une part de leur épargne. Un modèle fondé sur l’éducation financière.

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Entre le Luxembourg et Dubaï, les millions cachés de Fabrice Andjoua, fils de l’ancien président gabonais

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-24T04:00:18+00:00

Le fils d’Omar Bongo a dissimulé à l’étranger un patrimoine de plusieurs millions d’euros, entre voiture de luxe et biens immobiliers à Dubaï, d’après l’enquête « OpenLux » coordonnée notamment par « Le Monde ». Le décalage avec ses revenus de haut fonctionnaire gabonais interroge sur de potentiels « biens mal acquis ».

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« Les politiques migratoires européennes ignorent les besoins spécifiques des femmes et des personnes LGBT+ »

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-24T04:00:09+00:00

Dans une tribune au « Monde », les représentants d’Osez le féminisme !, de SOS Racisme et de l’Institut du genre en géopolitique déplorent que la prise en compte des violences spécifiques auxquelles sont exposées les femmes et personnes LGBT+ demeure largement absente de la mise en œuvre du pacte sur la migration et l’asile de l’UE.

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On the Front Lines of Myanmar’s Forgotten War

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-24T04:00:02+00:00

Our Times correspondent, Hannah Beech, travels to the center of the armed resistance movement in Myanmar and meets rebel fighters who are outgunned and undermanned after years of fighting in a civil war.

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Australia politics live: Ted O’Brien dismisses ‘silly’ debate over monoculturalism, asking ‘who’s in the mono?’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-24T03:50:25+00:00

Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRuston pushes for overhaul to controversial aged care toolOver to her portfolio, the shadow health and aged care minister, Anne Ruston, will introduce a private member’s bill to change the government’s controversial integrated assessment tool.The three things it seeks to do is to restore the discretion of a human assessor to make sure that the algorithm in their professional judgment doesn’t make an error. It also requires greater transparency so that every decision that’s made, the person can know how the algo

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Artist accused of winning prize with ‘imitation’ won Australian award with piece ‘influenced’ by Basquiat

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-24T03:47:46+00:00

Jane Allan’s winning Darling portrait prize painting has raised eyebrows after her Doyles art award piece was compared to artist Nicholas HardingAn Australian painter was “clearly influenced” by New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in a major prize-winning work, according to the National Portrait Gallery, after she was accused of winning a separate $20,000 prize with “an imitation” of a Nicholas Harding piece.The National Portrait Gallery has declined to comment further on the marked similarities between a 1982 work by Basquiat, Untitled (Two Heads on Gold), and a work by Lennox Head artist Ja

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : une femme tuée dans une frappe russe sur Kharkiv ; Sébastopol privée d’électricité après une attaque ukrainienne

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-24T03:45:20+00:00

Une femme de 56 ans a été tuée dans une frappe russe sur Kharkiv, dans le nord-est de l’Ukraine, ont annoncé mercredi matin les autorités locales. Sébastopol, important port de la Crimée annexée par la Russie, subi par ailleurs une coupure de courant après une offensive ukrainienne, selon le gouverneur de la ville, Mikhaїl Razvojaїev.

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Europa cruza una línea roja al hablar con los talibanes

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-06-24T03:45:01+00:00

Cualquier reunión, aunque se presente como técnica o limitada, corre el riesgo de legitimar a un régimen responsable del ‘apartheid’ de género en Afganistán

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India nears 50% domestic coal use in import-based power plants

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-24T03:44:01+00:00

Domestic coal is currently used for operating 5.7 gigawatts capacity this year, of the total 18.7 GW capacity, at imported coal-based power plants; Trials are underway to expand the switch to another 4.3 GW of capacity.

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El fracaso a la hora de proteger a los médicos en las guerras

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-06-24T03:30:01+00:00

Diez años después de que la ONU intentase blindar la asistencia sanitaria en los conflictos armados, los ataques se están normalizando en medio de una creciente impunidad

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