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The screens, once dominated by Caracas politics, now show baseball games or American news channels. Customers come in, order coffee, arepas or cachitos, and leave without lingering. There are no political discussions at the tables. These days, no one, or almost no one, utters the word intervention aloud. Here, where conversations about Venezuela were once part of the daily landscape, silence has become the norm.

Crucially, crypto has provided one area of particular concern, with the continued flush lower bringing financial stress for many that will also have positions across a raft of traditional assets. The main piece of news for markets has come from overnight comments out of the BoJ, with Governor Ueda noting that the group will weigh up the pros and cons of a rate hike in December.

Switzerland's federal prosecutor has filed charges against the failed bank Credit Suisse and its new owner, UBS, over the long-running tuna bonds loan scandal that crashed Mozambique's economy nearly a decade ago. The Swiss attorney general said on Monday that it had brought money-laundering charges against an unnamed employee of Credit Suisse, but was also taking action against the lender and its rival-turned-owner UBS.

Analysis from GlobalData is forecasting that fixed wireless access (FWA) service revenue in Hong Kong is expected to increase at a "healthy" compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6% between 2025 and 2030. The latest Hong Kong Total Fixed Communications Forecast set out to quantify current and future demand and spending on mobile services for the special administrative region of China.

A massive training exercise involving thousands of Marines from California and Arizona will get underway Monday under the direction Camp Pendleton's 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. Navy bases in San Diego will also participate in Steel Knight, a two-week effort designed, in part, to certify Pendleton's 5th Marine Regiment for deployment to Darwin, Australia. The regiment will spend six months in Darwin as a forward-positioned crisis response task force that trains with the Australian military.

Friday's Flight 388 took off from Shanghai at 5:46 p.m. and was supposed to land in Detroit some 13 hours later. However, less than two hours into the journey, the Airbus A350 began descending off the coast of Japan as it changed course for Tokyo. It touched down at Tokyo Haneda Airport around two hours after taking off. An airline spokesperson told Business Insider the crew "followed procedures to divert to Tokyo-Haneda after reporting a mechanical issue."

The UK government has sealed a deal with Donald Trump guaranteeing that zero tariffs will remain on the imports of UK pharmaceuticals into the US and commits Britain to higher spending on NHS drugs. The agreement, announced on Monday, secures continued investment by UK pharma companies in the US and will create jobs in the US, the Trump administration said.

Wednesday's fire at the Wang Fuk Court complex broke out on the netting around the lower levels of one of the buildings before spreading to foam panels that quickly caught fire. Winds then blew the flames onto the other buildings, with seven out of eight buildings affected. It took until Friday for the fire to be fully extinguished.

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The Ministry of Home Affairs announced it had sent the tech giants Implementation Directives that require them to prevent accounts and group chats from displaying names which spoof "gov.sg" or Singapore Government agencies and also filter such messages. A second measure requires Google and Apple to "Ensure the profile names of unknown senders are not displayed or are displayed less prominently than their phone numbers. This would help users better identify and be wary of unknown senders."

In recent months videos of women in Iran riding motorbikes, dancing in the streets, and defying mandatory hijab laws have been popping up across social media.

Work-related migration to wealthy countries fell by more than one-fifth last year, as labour markets weakened and countries including Australia and the United Kingdom tightened visa rules, according to new research by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Data from the Paris-based organisation, which is made up of 38 wealthy and emerging economies, showed that work-related migration declined between 2023 and 2024, even before Donald Trump's return to the White House reduced the number of arrivals into the United States.

That didn't didn't go so well, did it? I am very proud to represent field eventers. I just love pushing myself and pushing boundaries.

Crude oil prices staged a rebound today, with WTI climbing around 2% to just below USD 60 per barrel. The market found support after OPEC+'s weekend decision to reaffirm its production pause during the first quarter of 2026. The output hold could help reduce concerns about an oversupplied market to a certain extent. Geopolitical tensions also contributed to the market's strength.

Obviously not our greatest day, not our greatest weekend, said Norris, who believed McLaren should have pitted Piastri and him when Verstappen and the rest of the field were called in. Both of us should have done. I would have been had over either way, because we would have double-stacked and potentially I would have lost time. A bit of time. I wouldn't have lost a position, I don't think.

A bride and 10 of her bridesmaids were among those abducted on the night of Saturday to Sunday from the village of Chacho in Sokoto State, a resident told the AFP news agency. Bandits stormed our village last night and kidnapped 14 persons, including a bride and 10 bridesmaids, from a house in Zango neighbourhood, said Aliyu Abdullahi, a resident of Chacho village. A baby, the baby's mother and another woman were also taken, Abdullahi added.

Following the coup that overthrew al-Bashir in 2019, a fragile civilian-military transitional arrangement failed to unite competing factions. Political instability, localised rebellions, and a simmering rivalry between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) the successor to the Popular Defence Forces, government-backed militia known as the Janjaweed who committed war crimes in Darfur in the early 2000s escalated into full-blown conflict.

We know that in this moment, Israel doesn't accept this solution, but we see it as the only one that can offer a solution to the conflict that they are living in, said Leo. We are also friends with Israel, and we try with both sides to be a mediating voice that can help bring them closer to a solution with justice for all.

She was admitted with symptoms of a lung infection and Hossein said she appeared to be responding to the treatment. 'At this moment, I can say her condition has been in the same stage for the last three days. In doctors' language, we say she is responding to the treatment', he was quoted as saying by the Daily Star news website. 'Please pray so that she can continue to receive this treatment.'

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Beirut for a three-day visit focused on political talks and interfaith outreach. The pope said he wanted to bring a message of peace to the region, while Israel continued strikes on Islamist militias in southern Lebanon and Gaza. In the Lebanese capital, the pontiff met political leaders from the country's three main religious communities: President Joseph Aoun, a Christian; Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Shiite Muslim; and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, a Sunni Muslim.