Most Asian markets bounced on Friday after the previous day’s tech rout fuelled by concerns over the AI boom, which Federal Reserve boss Kevin Warsh said offered huge benefits to the global economy. Seoul and Tokyo enjoyed healthy gains in early exchanges boosted by chipmakers SK hynix and Kioxia, after having been pummelled on Thursday […]
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Bundesbauministerin Verena Hubertz (SPD) will rasch ein Gesetz gegen die Vergesellschaftung von Wohnraum auf den Weg bringen. Ein solches Gesetz solle “so schnell es geht” kommen, sagte sie dem Nachrichtenportal t-online. Die Vergesellschaftung großer Wohnungskonzerne ist vor allem in Berlin Thema: Die Linke hatte mit dem Vorhaben Wahlkampf zur Wahl des Abgeordnetenhauses gemacht – und […]
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Closed schools, shuttered sports centres and mass mask handouts. Indonesian wildfire haze has caused a regional pollution crisis and prompted growing frustration in neighbours, including Malaysia.”You need to treat them as an outcast in the region,” Malaysian parliamentarian Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman railed this week talking about the Indonesian fires. His comments go much […]
Read MoreThe families of children killed in a roof collapse at a school in northwest Pakistan called for “justice” on Friday, the day after more than 30 pupils and a teacher were crushed to death. A woman teacher and 32 students, mostly younger than 14, died in the building collapse in the city of Peshawar on […]
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India’s sweeping overhaul of electoral rolls has triggered a political firestorm, with opposition parties accusing the Election Commission of putting millions at risk of disenfranchisement. The Special Intensive Revision (SIR), launched in June 2025, aims to purge electoral rolls of duplicate, deceased and otherwise ineligible voters. Critics, however, say the exercise has shifted the burden of […]
Read MoreEin 16-Jähriger hat in einer Grundschule im Westen der USA drei Kinder und einen Lehrer erschossen. Die Kinder waren fünf, acht und elf Jahre alt, wie die Polizei in der Stadt Bend im Bundesstaat Oregon am Donnerstag mitteilte. Ein weiteres Kind und ein Lehrer wurden demnach lebensgefährlich verletzt. Der 16 Jahre alte Angreifer wurde am Tatort erschossen. […]
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Der Berliner Politikbetrieb ist laut der Stand-Up-Comedienne Hazel Brugger von einer anhaltenden Schlaflosigkeit geprägt. Wie die 32-Jährige in einem am Freitag in der Neuen Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ) veröffentlichten Gespräch sagte, verbrachte Brugger für die “heute-show” im ZDF einen Tag als Praktikantin bei SPD-Parteichef Lars Klingbeil. “Ich denke, dass viele politische Entscheidungen im Zustand einer unguten […]
Read MoreAuthorities closed a central New Delhi park Friday before a fresh protest seeking the removal of India’s election chief over a voter-roll revision that critics say has disenfranchised millions. Organised by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the campaign has become the focal point of opposition anger over allegations that the revised rolls favour Prime Minister […]
Read MoreA teenager shot and killed three children and a teacher on Thursday at an elementary school in the US state of Oregon, police said, adding the assailant was later killed by an armed bystander who pursued him into the building. Officers rushed to Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, a city of about 100,000 in the […]
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