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On a scorching August morning in northern Athens, a grey Hyundai i30 with heavily tinted windows pulled into the gravel courtyard of the Evelpidon judicial complex. Stepping out under heavy police escort, a 26-year-old Afghan lightweight professional boxer kept his head bowed against the flashes of news cameras. Handcuffed and surrounded by armed officers from the Hellenic Police's Homicide Division, Sharif Ahmadzai was brought before an investigating magistrate to face formal indictments for intentional homicide, robbery, and illegal weapons offenses.

The social media titan Meta has reportedly made a startling disclosure before senior leaders of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). By revealing that “a lot of money was paid to boost certain types of content,” the tech giant has sparked an intense, widespread debate that goes far beyond the temporary removal of a video featuring PM Modi.

American Representative Riley M. Moore has criticized the proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026. The first-term Congressman claimed that the FCRA Amendment Bill permits the government to “take over churches and religious charities”, calling it “a clear attack against Christians.”“Christians have been in India since St. Thomas the Apostle travelled to the Malabar Coast just decades after the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. But despite this long Christian history, India’s Parliament is considering amending Foreign Contribution Regulation Amendment (FCRA) rules to permit government takeovers of churches and religious charities,” Moore wrote on X on 4th August.

In a high-ceilinged industrial warehouse on the outskirts of the American sunbelt, a hydraulic cutter descends with rhythmically cold precision. A blade engineered to slice through thousands of pounds of reinforced steel effortlessly shears off the spine of a first-edition hardcover novel. The paper block, liberated from its binding, is separated into loose leaves, aligned by high-speed mechanical rollers, and drawn across the glass of a production scanner. Bright bursts of optical sensors capture every sentence, every margin, and every typographical nuance at a rate of dozens of pages per second.

It has been 79 years since the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was carved out of an undivided India. However, the self-declared Riyasat-e-Medina’s identity crisis refuses to subside. For decades, Pakistan erased its Hindu history and Islamised its society. Pakistani Muslims falsely claimed Arab, Turk, and Persian ancestry despite being descendants of converted Hindus.

Authorities in Nepal have significantly tightened security measures and enforced local curfews across multiple districts following an outbreak of communal violence in the Sunsari district of Koshi Province, leaving one person dead and 24 others injured.

The pro-Khalistan separatist group Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) is currently facing an intense internal rift as it prepares for its planned Khalistan referendum in Indianapolis on 16 August 2026. This rising internal tension within the organisation came to light publicly after a prominent SFJ leader openly accused another key figure in the movement of actively facilitating the arrest of a third Khalistani activist.

First introduced in 1894, Johnson & Johnson baby powder stands as one of the most well-known baby-care products globally. However, the company behind it has also found itself at the heart of a global controversy spanning a decade over asbestos—a known carcinogen—contamination. To settle thousands of prolonged lawsuits alleging that the company’s discontinued talc-based baby powder caused ovarian cancer, Johnson & Johnson has offered $5.5bn.

On Monday, July 13, US President Donald Trump announced that the Strait of Hormuz is going to remain open, while simultaneously appointing the United States as its sole guardian. In a striking move, he conveyed that countries will be required to pay “20 per cent on all cargo shipped” to traverse this critical maritime route.