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Celebrated British actor Sir Patrick Stewart has passed away at the age of 86. Rising from a childhood marked by domestic hardship and going completely bald by age 19, Stewart built a formidable career with the Royal Shakespeare Company before capturing global stardom as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek and Professor X in the X-Men franchise. Knighted in 2010, the Yorkshire-born legend proved that classical discipline and character can redefine modern popular culture.
At least 14 people were killed and over a dozen wounded when a Russian drone struck a busy railway platform in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday, part of a wider wave of air strikes that killed at least 19 people nationwide. The attack on Ukraine’s transport infrastructure followed an overnight barrage of more than 600 Ukrainian drones directed at the Moscow region while the Russian capital hosted an African leaders’ summit, highlighting intensifying long-range strikes ahead of planned US-mediated talks.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secured a historic fourth term as President of Brazil, winning a decisive 4% runoff victory powered by 10.4 million additional votes and an expansive digital mobilization. While conservative challenger Flávio Bolsonaro pledged to challenge the outcome over a last-minute extension of voting hours and US President Donald Trump claimed the election was ‘rigged’, Brazil’s supreme electoral authorities and regional leaders moved swiftly to recognize the results, cementing Lula’s return ahead of his January 2027 inauguration.
Geneva is a cool place. The mercury hardly shoot up while agitations are conspicuous by their absence.
Economists have been waiting for US economy to stumble for much of the past year. They had reasons for this foreboding.
India and Slovakia have officially upgraded their bilateral relations to a Comprehensive Partnership.
A diplomatic controversy has emerged between India and Bangladesh after Dr Zahed Ur Rahman, an adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman, returned from Delhi airport without entering India, alleging that he was “humiliated” during an immigration check.
India and France have agreed to deepen their strategic partnership by setting ambitious new goals in trade, defence, technology, innovation, and clean energy cooperation. The decision was announced following bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Nice.
Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s blockbuster public listing pushed the company’s valuation past $2 trillion. With his aerospace stake now worth over $800 billion alongside his Tesla holdings, Musk’s historic wealth now rivals the GDP of major global nations.
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