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...In Kaliningrad/Königsberg, Kant’s genius and spirit were invoked to seal that special union of German reason and Russian passion that became later known as Nord Stream 1 and 2....
...For Israel, the devastating Hamas attack on October 7 was unlike any other in its scale and brutality....
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...Under Buhari, income per capita has fallen and 90mn Nigerians live on less than $1.90 a day....
...Ukraine also said it destroyed nine of 12 Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones....
...Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all had inflation rates close to zero at the start of 2021 but by this January they were up to 7.5-12.3 per cent, well above the eurozone average....
...First-quarter figures point to a blended net profit margin for the S&P 500 stock index of 12.3 per cent, according to FactSet....
...Balwani was convicted on all 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy by a jury in San Jose, California. 2....
...Russia’s recent anti-satellite test, which blew up an old Soviet spacecraft, created more than 1,500 new pieces of trackable debris....
...Attacks targeting civilians in the region have risen from 381 in 2015 to 7,108 in 2021, with 12,519 fatalities, up from 1,394 over the same period, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location and...
...The brutality of a recent cull of almost 1,500 dolphins, when many were stranded for hours before being killed, prompted domestic and international outrage....
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...In a rare joint statement, the defence chiefs of 12 countries, including the US, UK, Germany and Japan, condemned the junta’s brutality....
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...Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief, declared that “the junta’s increasing brutality has clear consequences”....
...Gupta’s company made two further ad hoc payments, this time of £1.5m each, in September and October — but never paid the full balance....
...Nigeria has registered 1,184 deaths from Covid-19 and a four-week lockdown hit the informal economy hard....
...Of the 1.2bn people on the continent, 477m have unique mobile subscriptions, according to GSMA, the mobile trade body....
...The Home Office said it has so far issued identity documents to 12,000 people....
...They found that the rate of infection in the mostly Bangladeshi south Asian community, when adjusted for age, was 1.9 times higher than in the white population, and 1.6 times higher in the black community...
...Join fashion critic Alexander Fury and FT fashion editor Lauren Indvik in a discussion at 12pm UK time on Friday June 12....
...Don’t miss two poems, from Minneapolis-based Danez Smith and the FT’s Leke Oso Alabi, on brutality....
...Black people are 1.7 times as likely to suffer from diabetes than white people, and 1.4 times more likely to suffer from hypertension, according to the National Center for Health Statistics....
...The president says the budget deficit will be at least $12bn this year, around 12 per cent of GDP....
...District councillors also comprise 117 seats of the 1,200-member election committee that selects Hong Kong’s chief executive....
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