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LONDON (AP) — The Russian-speaking handler, a shadowy figure known as “El Money,” was not happy. A string of arson attacks targeting a car and two London homes linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had attracted little attention, possibly because the then 21-year-old attacker, a Ukrainian recruited online, was not very good at documenting them. One video that was supposed to show Starmer’s former car on fire lasted only […]

BANGKOK (AP) — The war in Iran has exposed major risks for Southeast Asia that could cost the region many billions of dollars if it does not diversify sources of energy more quickly, according to an International Energy Agency report released Tuesday. An overreliance on oil and gas transported through the Strait of Hormuz left the region particularly vulnerable to shocks from the Iran war, a “stark wake-up call” for […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat was quoted as saying Tuesday that the end of the Iran war included the end of Israel’s occupation of Lebanon. Iranian state television quoted Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi making the comment to foreign diplomats in a briefing. It did not air the remarks, but put them in an onscreen graphic. “The end of the war in Lebanon is an inseparable part […]

ATHENS, June 16 (Reuters) – The mastermind of Greece’s defunct and most lethal guerrilla group November 17, who was freed from jail last month, will return to prison after the country’s top court overturned his release, police sources and the Athens News Agency said. Alexandros Giotopoulos, 82, was arrested in 2002 when the Marxist group, which carried out a 27-year campaign of assassinations, was dismantled by the police. Giotopoulos and […]

MILAN, June 16 (Reuters) – Italian police have arrested seven people accused of belonging to an anarchist militant network and carrying out sabotage on a high-speed railway line during the Winter Olympics in February. In a statement on Tuesday, police said a judge had ordered five suspects to be held in prison and two placed under house arrest. The charges include terrorist association and subversion of the democratic order. Police […]

By Sam Tabahriti and Alistair Smout LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday imposed sanctions on the banking arm of Russian firm Yandex, two other lenders and dozens of vessels accused of exporting Russian oil and gas, and a covert military procurement network. The package aims to step up pressure on financial and logistics networks helping the Kremlin in its war in Ukraine. One of Russia’s largest insurers, Rosgosstrakh, […]

By Feras Dalatey , Jonathan Saul, Dmitry Zhdannikov and Edward Carron DUBAI, June 16 (Reuters) – The United States military has overseen scores of secretive ship-to-ship oil transfers to keep Gulf energy exports flowing, using aerial and water drones as well as helicopters in an operation to guide convoys to awaiting tankers. The operation on the edge of the Strait of Hormuz employs a shuttling technique long used by Iran […]

June 16 (Reuters) – Shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rose more than 10% in premarket trading on Tuesday, putting the company on course to overtake Amazon.com in market value to become the world’s fifth‑largest company, as it extended a post-IPO rally. The stock, which surged more than 19% on Monday, was last up 10.1% at $211.8, giving the company a market capitalization of nearly $2.8 trillion if gains hold. Amazon […]

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan farmer Yvonne Anyonyi Mumiah walks in the early morning between rows of rosemary, basil and other crops destined for European supermarkets. She once worried that transport delays or extreme heat could spoil much of her harvest, but now relies on a solar-powered cool storage service to keep her produce fresh. The pay-per-use model offered by cold-chain company SoKo Fresh charges farmers based on kilograms (pounds) […]