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Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s son is set to marry on Friday, marking the culmination of a wedding extravaganza  that lasted nearly seven months and brought into focus the staggering wealth and influence of the richest man in Asia. Anant Ambani — the youngest son of the tycoon — got engaged to Radhika Merchant — the daughter of pharmaceutical magnate Viren Merchant — in December last year. The couple will wed in a Hindu ceremony at the Ambani-owned Jio World Convention Centre in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. Among the invitees expected to attend the event are: Former British Prime Ministers Boris…

On Wednesday, the US news channel CNN reported that earlier this year Russia’s government had been planning to assassinate the business executive of a major German arms manufacturer — presumably to discourage the further production of weapons and military vehicles to be delivered to Ukraine. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the German government has supplied €5.2 billion ($5.7 billion) worth of military equipment to Ukraine, according to an official statement. The target, Armin Papperger, 61, is the CEO of Rheinmetall, a publicly traded company specialized in automotive and arms manufacturing. Ranked as one of Europe’s largest arms manufacturers, the…

Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter trial has been put on hold following a motion by his legal team to dismiss the case over a claim that ammunition evidence was hidden.On day three of Baldwin’s trial, the actor’s lawyers said the Santa Fe sheriff’s office took possession of live rounds as evidence in the case but failed to list them in the Rust investigation file or disclose their existence to defence lawyers. “This was hidden from us,” the actor’s lawyer Alex Spiro told a sheriff’s office crime scene technician under cross-examination during a hearing on the motion, while jurors were not in…

Ten members of the Cambodian environmental activist group Mother Nature were sentenced to six to eight years in prison in July for conspiring against the state. Three of the members of the group were also convicted of insulting Cambodia’s king, Norodom Sihamoni. The young activists had long campaigned against the destruction of natural resources across the Southeast Asian country and had openly suggested links to corruption. The group was charged with “plotting” against the state after investigating waste pollution in Phnom Penh’s Tone Sap River in 2021. In addition, a group statement from an online meeting was found to be…

Finland’s Parliament on Friday voted in favor of legislation that would permit border guards to turn away asylum-seekers at its eastern border under certain circumstances. The new law comes following a dramatic increase in the number of asylum-seekers from countries such as Somalia and Syria arriving in Finland via its 1,340-kilometre (830-mile) border with Russia in the past year. Helsinki claims that the surge was orchestrated by Moscow, which it accuses of “weaponizing migration” as part of “hybrid attacks” in response to Finland’s accession to NATO. The Kremlin denies the suggestions. Finland to vote on turning back migrants coming from…

President Joe Biden has faced more calls from fellow Democrats to step aside in the race for the White House after making further major gaffes at the NATO summit.His performance at the Washington event was seen as make-or-break for the 81-year-old after a disastrous debate performance against rival Donald Trump last month. However, speaking at the end of the three-day summit he mistakenly referred to the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “President Putin”, drawing gasps from those in the room, before correcting himself.A short time later he mixed up the names of vice president Kamala Harris and Trump. Please use…

On July 20, 1944, at 12:42, a bomb went off in the conference room of the Wolf’s Lair military headquarters in East Prussia, the easternmost province of the German Reich until the end of World War II. It was supposed to kill Adolf Hitler, and had been planted by German army officer Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. The former ardent National Socialist now no longer saw any other option apart from murdering the dictator. “There is nothing left but to kill him,” he had told his closest confidants a few days earlier. Stauffenberg was not only the assassin, but also…

Police in France said that four migrants drowned in the Channel off Boulogne sur Mer along the northern coast on Friday. Maritime authorities said the victims had been attempting an overnight crossing to Britain. The AFP news agency, citing maritime police, reported that a naval patrol vessel traveled to the area after receiving an alert that several people had fallen into the sea. A helicopter winched four people out of the water, but they were already dead, while some were rescued alive. A spokesperson for France’s coastguard was cited by the Reuters news agency as saying there were a total of 67…

Ten members of the Cambodian environmental activist group Mother Nature were sentenced to six to eight years in prison earlier this month for conspiring against the state. Three of the members of the group were also convicted of insulting Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni. The young activists had long campaigned against the destruction of natural resources across the Southeast Asian country and had openly alleged links to corruption. The group was charged with “plotting” against the Cambodian state after they investigated waste pollution in Phnom Penh’s Tone Sap River in 2021. In addition, a group statement from an online meeting was…

If you’ve ever dealt with head lice, you’ll know how difficult it is to get rid of them. There’s a range of products in pharmacies — from special combs to shampoos — but sometimes it’s not enough. You need to understand how they live, spread and survive to beat them to get rid of them once and for all. What are head lice? The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes head lice as insects the size of a sesame seed. Lice feed on human scalp blood. When they suck blood, they release a spit that can cause an…