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UFC Freedom 250 and a fight in White House's backyard

India, June 13 -- As the United States marks 250 years of independence, the UFC is preparing to stage a fight card on the grounds of the White House. The symbolism is odd and impossible to miss: a cag... Read More


G-7 Summit: Trump, Modi to discuss trade deal, says official, Iran war, Hormuz to be taken with Arab, European leaders

New Delhi, June 13 -- US President Donald Trump is expected to discuss plans to demine the Strait of Hormuz with allies during next week's Group of Seven summit in France, a senior US administration o... Read More


China's Private Space Companies Are Sprinting Toward IPOs Behind SpaceX, and Shanghai's STAR Market Has Quietly Opened the Door

SHANGHAI, June 13 -- A wave of Chinese private space companies is moving simultaneously toward public listings on Shanghai's STAR market and the Hong Kong stock exchange, in the immediate slipstream o... Read More


Saudi Arabia Lifts Its Five-Year Ban on Lebanese Exports as Beirut Leans Back to the Gulf

BEIRUT, June 13 -- Saudi Arabia has reopened its market to Lebanese goods after nearly five years, lifting an import ban that gutted one of the country's most important export sectors and signalling t... Read More


Madhuri Dixit's Maa Behen Hits Number 2 on Netflix Global Chart in Debut Week

New Delhi, June 13 -- Madhuri Dixit's Maa Behen has surged to the number two position on Netflix's Global Top 10 Non-English Films chart within its first week of release, making it one of the stronges... Read More


South Korea Hands Coupang a Record $409 Million Data Privacy Fine, Five Times Bigger Than Anything the Country Has Levied Before

SEOUL, June 13 -- South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has fined Coupang 624.7 billion won, equivalent to about 409 million United States dollars, for a 2025 data breach that expos... Read More


A New Study Says Solar Geoengineering Could Save the Oceans From Heat Waves. The Question Is Which Oceans.

EAST LANSING, June 13 -- A new study by researchers at Michigan State University and the Climate Intervention Biology Working Group, published this week in Environmental Research: Climate, models what... Read More


Techie returns to India after 13 years as H1B expires. Now desperate to leave again: 'Mosquitoes, heat, traffic'

India, June 13 -- After spending over a decade in the US, an Indian techie has opened up about "struggling big time" to adapt to life back home. Facing daily power outages lasting up to eight hours, i... Read More


White House to host UFC bouts for Trump's birthday

Dhaka, June 13 -- President Donald Trump is set to mark his 80th birthday with an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event on the White House South Lawn -- an occasion presidential historians say ha... Read More


A Judge Calls It Censorship and Orders Trump's Officials to Restore What They Stripped From the National Parks

WASHINGTON, June 13 -- Put the history back. That, in effect, is what a federal judge has ordered Donald Trump's administration to do, after it spent months stripping the national parks of signs and e... Read More