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CNN  —  Indian police have killed 31 suspected Maoist rebels in what is being described as the “biggest ever operation” against the long-running insurgency. Security forces spent 21 days attempting to capture the rebels along the border of the states of Chhattisgarh and Telangana in central India, Home Minister Amit Shah said Wednesday. Describing the operation as a “historic breakthrough,” Shah said security forces carried out the “biggest ever operation” against the rebels, killing 31 of them in Karreguttalu Hill, considered a Maoist stronghold. Indian authorities have been battling Maoist rebel groups, also known as Naxals, across several central and…

May 14, 2025, 11:05 PM ETReal Madrid defender Raúl Asencio and three former teammates from the club’s youth teams could face criminal charges for allegedly recording sexual images of a woman and a minor and distributing them without their consent.Asencio is alleged to have solicited a video recorded by his former youth division teammates Andrés García, Ferrán Ruiz and Juan Rodríguez that depicted a June 2023 sexual encounter between his ex-teammates, a woman and a girl.After finalizing its investigation, the Gran Canaria High Court of Justice released an order Wednesday to formalize the criminal proceedings against the four players. This…

CNN  —  Sudden, hurricane-force winds toppled the luxury Bayesian superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily last August, according to an interim report into the disaster, which found the boat had “vulnerabilities” to extreme wind which were not known to the owner or crew. The 184-foot sailing boat owned by British tech tycoon Mike Lynch was anchored about a half mile from the port of Porticello on the Italian island’s northern coast when it sank, killing seven people, including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. The interim report by the UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) gives a detailed…

CNN  —  It seems some parents in New Zealand just can’t get the message. Once again, King has topped the list of baby names rejected by the country’s Registrar General. The royal title led the list of banned baby names for 14 years in a row until 2023 when it was replaced by Prince, which ranks second in the latest iteration. Other regal references including Duke, Majesty and Emperor are also a no-go in the country, which polices birth names under its strict registration law. New Zealand registered 60,000 births last year and rejected 38 proposed names, according to a…

Tokyo girl, Tokyo girlYou’ve got the moves to rule the worldThat cute inscrutabilityTokyo girl, you’re a mysteryAce of baseThe liberal democracies of Northeast Asia – Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – have survived and even thrived in a purgatorial equilibrium where their fate is dependent on:an America in Asia but not of Asia (see here) and a China gathering its strength and biding its time.There are costs associated with this equilibrium, this status quo, this interminable present – costs not just of treasure and strategic risk but of civilizational stagnation and national incoherence.While Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have avoided…

Tokyo girl, Tokyo girlYou’ve got the moves to rule the worldThat cute inscrutabilityTokyo girl, you’re a mysteryAce of baseThe liberal democracies of Northeast Asia – Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – have survived and even thrived in a purgatorial equilibrium where their fate is dependent on:an America in Asia but not of Asia (see here) and a China gathering its strength and biding its time.There are costs associated with this equilibrium, this status quo, this interminable present – costs not just of treasure and strategic risk but of civilizational stagnation and national incoherence.While Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have avoided…

CNN  —  There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One. A tour narrowly billed by the White House as a chance for Trump to show he’s a master dealmaker is jumbling the region’s geopolitical jigsaw puzzle. Wherever he goes, Trump’s brings disruption that can forge possibilities. And he takes risks – for instance, his decision on this trip to lift sanctions on Syria to give a war-ravaged nation a second chance. But the move revives a perennial…

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and U.S. President Donald Trump shake hands at an ‘Investing in America’ event in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 30, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters The “Magnificent Seven” group of stocks — comprising Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — drove much of the S&P 500’s sterling 23.31% gain in 2024.They have also been some of the hardest stocks hit by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Those that rely heavily on global supply chains and export markets, such as Apple and Nvidia, suffered the most. By contrast, Meta and Microsoft, which derive more of…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer reviewed why certain stocks that are usually considered safe bets — like pharmaceuticals or consumer packaged goods — weathered losses on Wednesday.”In a very uncertain tape for what used to be called ‘safety stocks,’ I’d rather just own a piece of paper like the 10-year Treasury, where, if worst comes to worst, at least I get my money back,” he said.Cramer pinpointed a few reasons several stocks with solid dividends declined today — namely, rising bond yields, especially the 10-Year Treasury. He also stressed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary, is a…

© Marco Bottigelli | Moment | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets mostly fell Thursday, breaking ranks with Wall Street as investors assessed U.S.-China trade developments.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 fell 0.98% to close at 37,755.51, while the Topix lost 0.88% to end the trading day at 2,738.96. South Korea’s Kospi declined 0.73% to close at 2,621.36 while the small-cap Kosdaq slipped 0.79% to close at 733.23.Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index dropped 0.82%, while mainland China’s CSI 300 lost 0.87%. India’s Nifty 50 slipped 0.16%.Australia’s benchmark S&P/ASX 200 bucked the wider trend in the region to close 0.22% higher at 8,297.5.”While markets have largely…