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UK Has Gone Years Without a Credible Defence Plan, Parliament's Spending Watchdog Warns

New Delhi, June 7 -- Britain has gone years without a credible military plan, and the cost of that absence is no longer theoretical. The committee's report, published on June 7, targets the Defence I... Read More


Sri Lanka's Anti-Corruption Blitz Claims Officials from Motor Traffic to Parliament

The commission, June 7 -- The bureaucrat who signed off on an irregular vehicle transfer in 2017 did not expect to face handcuffs nearly a decade later. Neither, perhaps, did the finance official at a... Read More


Inside the Bomb Lab That Greek Intelligence Found Before the Ship Arrived

ATHENS, June 7 -- The apartment on Acharnon Street in the Kato Patisia district of Athens looked like any other rented flat in the middle of a working-class neighbourhood. But when Greek counterterror... Read More


Hamas Member Arrested in Crete Had Athens Bomb Lab and Cruise Ship Target, Greek Police Say

HERAKLION, June 7 -- He had kept a low profile for nearly two years, renting a room in the eastern Cretan town of Agios Nikolaos while working seasonal shifts at a nearby hotel. His Athens apartment, ... Read More


Albania's Anti-Corruption Prosecutors Open Criminal Probe Into Kushner Resort Land Deals

New Delhi, June 7 -- TIRANA, Albania - The investigation did not begin with the protests. It began with a document trail. On June 1, Albania's Special Structure Against Corruption and Organised Crime ... Read More


Gold Down 18%, Palladium Loses Nearly a Third as Iran War Hits 100-Day Mark

The losses, June 7 -- The gold bar that fetched $5,263 an ounce on the last day of February is worth roughly $4,329 today. In the hundred days since the United States and Israel launched coordinated s... Read More


Kremlin Confirms Both Open and Secret Channels With Kiev Remain Active, Ushakov Says

New Delhi, June 7 -- The back-room contact between Moscow and Kiev is more active than either capital has let on. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said Sunday that Russia maintains both open and undisclosed ... Read More


Finland's Stubb Dismisses Baltic Attack Fears, Calls for Restored Russia Ties

New Delhi, June 7 -- For the leader of a country sharing more than 1,300 kilometres of border with Russia, Alexander Stubb's message was striking in its composure. The Finnish president said Sunday he... Read More


EU Calls Hezbollah's Bluff, Backs Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire With €100 Million Military Aid to Beirut

BRUSSELS, June 7 -- Three days after Hezbollah rejected the ceasefire its own government had agreed to, the European Union stepped into the vacuum on Sunday with a statement that did something few Eur... Read More


Pakistan Delivers Joint Military-Civilian Message to Iran's Supreme Leader as Nuclear Deal Stalls

New Delhi, June 7 -- The envelope reached Iran's foreign minister on a Sunday morning, but its intended recipient has not been seen in public since February 28, the day the war began. Pakistan's Inter... Read More