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India Cuts U.S. Crude Imports By 50% As It Buys Discounted Russian Crude

New reports have emerged that during the second quarter, India slashed its crude imports from the United States by one million metric tonnes while sharply ramping up imports of discounted Russian oil. India’s energy mix now looks dramatically different from a year...

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Twitter covered up fake accounts and security flaws, says US whistleblower

American social media giant Twitter has been accused of hiding major security flaws as a whistleblower said the platform has been lying to customers and officials for years about its attempts to fix its leaky security of user data. Twitter misled...

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Cineworld – The World’s Second-Largest Cinema Chain Confirms It Is Mulling Bankruptcy Filing in US

Cineworld Group PLC confirmed on Monday that it is considering filing for voluntary bankruptcy in the U.S. as well as associated proceedings in other regions. The London-based cinema company–which owns Regal Cinemas–was responding to recent press r...

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Real Semitic prisoners stage mass hunger strike in Israeli jails

Real Semites i.e. Palestinian prisoners have staged a mass hunger strike in Israeli prisons to protest crackdowns and mistreatment by prison officials. The prisoners, who began their strikes on Monday, also refused to leave their cells for the routine so-c...

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Banks to pay $1 Billion over traders’ use of WhatsApp

A handful of Wall Street banks are preparing to pay up to $200m each to settle a case with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over the use of WhatsApp messages. The banks...

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China Jails Billionaire Xiao Jianhua For 13 Years, Slaps $8.1 Billion Fine

In the most glaring lesson yet to the country’s upstart nouveau-riche oligarchs, a Chinese court has sentenced Xiao Jianhua, the billionaire founder of Tomorrow Group known for managing assets for descendants of prominent Chinese leaders, to 13 years i...

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KIA’s New EV Is Faster Than a Corvette

KIA unveiled the muscular version of its already fairly powerful EV6 electric car on Friday during Monterey Car Week, the largest auto show in the US The EV6 was already available with 320 horsepower in the GT-Line AWD, but the...

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The 10 Biggest Military Spending Nations In The World

Military spending and technology has come under the spotlight as the world tracked Western arms shipments and watched how Iskanders, Kalibrs, HIMARS and other weaponry affected the conflict. But, as Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte details here, devel...

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North Korea fired two cruise missiles towards the sea

South Korea says it is investigating launches after it detected two missiles fired from the North’s west coast into the sea. North Korea has fired two cruise missiles into the sea, according to South Korean officials, in Pyongyang’s first weapons...

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Three Arrows Founders Bought $50 Million Superyacht Called “Much Wow” Prior To Firm’s Collapse

The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars The boat was a beauty of a thing: some 500 tons across 171 feet of glass and steel as white as Santorini. All rounded edges, the five decks — one with a glass-bottom...

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Aramco’s Q2 net income surges to $48.4 billion

Saudi Arabia’s largely state-owned energy firm has highlighted the colossal profits made by gas and oil-rich nations during the energy crisis by revealing profits in the three months to the end of June up 90% to $48bn (£40bn). Saudi Aramco...

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The faux “fact-checking” organizations are directly funded by Washington

Most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED). In li...

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Poland wants Ukraine to admit genocide

A Polish deputy culture minister says the 1943 Volhyn massacres fit the definition of genocide and Kiev will have to recognize that. The mass murder of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists during the Second World War meets the definition of genocide...

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto firms had deep ties to bankrupt Voyager Digital

Sam Bankman-Fried became a crypto billionaire and one of the most famous players in the industry by building cryptocurrency exchange FTX. His company was pseudo-valued at $32 billion in January and currently has more than a million users. Voyager is a...

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Ukraine halts Russian oil supply to EU

Ukraine’s state oil pipeline operator Ukrtransnafta has stopped pumping Russian crude through the southern branch of the Druzhba system to the EU, RIA Novosti news agency reported on Monday, citing Russia’s Transneft. According to the report, transit suppl...

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