A court hearing is scheduled for Thursday after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked a judge to assess whether the search warrants that led to his arrest in February were lawful, Britain’s judicial office said. He is King Charles’s brother.

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Officials in Baikalsk, in Russia’s Irkutsk region, urged residents not to travel to Shelekhov after reports that hospital patient Daria Shipilova may have died of pneumonic plague. The post was deleted two hours later. Authorities have not confirmed the cause, describing it only as a suspected case of an “especially dangerous infection,” while residents bought antibiotics amid rumors.

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Samoa Prime Minister La’auli Leuatea Schmidt has apologised after a newly surfaced 2007 video showed him leading a Nazi salute and saying “Heil Hitler” at a family gathering on Savai‘i. He called the words and gesture inappropriate, rejected Nazism, antisemitism, racism and extremism, and said the episode did not reflect his beliefs or Samoa’s values.

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Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called a general election for 29 November after the People’s party, Vox and Junts rejected his minority government’s emergency housing decrees. The vote follows nationwide protests over soaring rents and insecure tenancies, and Sánchez hopes the issue will rally leftwing voters.

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Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez has called a snap election for November 29.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called a snap election following protests over the housing crisis.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called a snap general election for November 29 after parliament rejected housing relief measures proposed by his minority government. The defeat was followed by mass protests over the housing crisis, including a demonstration in Madrid that the government said drew more than 70,000 people.

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called an early general election for November 29, bringing forward a vote scheduled for 2027. The announcement follows parliament’s rejection of his minority government’s housing-crisis measures and growing public pressure over housing costs, including protests across the country.

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Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called early elections in Spain after days of deliberation. His decision follows the defeat of housing decrees in Congress, a migration crisis in Ceuta and a weakening parliamentary majority.

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The euro has fallen to a 17-month low against the dollar as high energy prices and concerns over France’s public finances add to pressure on the single currency.

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Rae Wee looks ahead to the day in European and global markets, focusing on the euro’s problem with France.

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Initial findings suggest the Flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking the captain and trying to seize control of an Israel-bound flight acted alone, rather than for an organized group or foreign government, officials said. Emirati authorities described it as an attempted terrorist attack, but stressed that the investigation remains at an early stage.

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FlyDubai’s perilous plunge and miraculous ending have drawn attention to Boeing’s 737 Max, an aircraft that also appears to have defied the odds.

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Multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation and a former Israeli security official told NBC News that early indications point to the Flydubai co-pilot acting as a lone wolf. He is accused of attacking the captain and trying to take control of an Israel-bound plane, but officials say he did not appear to be part of a larger organization or acting for a foreign government.

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The captain’s quick response on a Flydubai flight bound for Israel last week prevented what could have been a catastrophic hijacking. Aviation safety experts nevertheless say the incident reveals troubling weaknesses in security procedures.

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Multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation and a former Israeli security official told NBC News that early indications suggest the Flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking his captain and trying to take control of a plane bound for Israel acted alone. They said he did not appear to be part of a larger organization or acting for a foreign government.

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Regional officials say the United Arab Emirates gave Israel a list of passengers and crew before last week’s FlyDubai flight to Israel, including the pilots’ names and nationalities. One pilot allegedly tried to take control of the aircraft and crash it.

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OKXICE, a joint venture between OKX and ICE, plans to launch tokenized U.S. stocks around the clock under a new innovation exemption from the SEC.

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The FBI says the US arrested a woman suspected of spying for China by surveilling Taiwan’s president’s son and his family before she could board a flight to Shanghai, as tensions between the rival powers persist.

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The FBI arrested Wanying Zhang at Los Angeles International Airport and charged her with acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Prosecutors allege she was directed by Chinese officials to surveil the son of Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, and send them photographs, video and licence-plate information. Taiwan’s presidential office condemned the alleged conduct as transnational repression.

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The FBI arrested California resident Wanying Zhang at Los Angeles International Airport and charged her with acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Authorities allege she surveilled Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te’s son and family at the direction of Chinese officials, sending photos, video and licence-plate information to China.

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US officials say the FBI arrested 34-year-old California resident Wanying Z. at Los Angeles International Airport before a flight to China. She is charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent and allegedly surveilling Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te’s son on instructions from Chinese officials, sending them photos, videos and license-plate information.

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Federal officials said the FBI arrested a 34-year-old California woman charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China. She allegedly surveilled the Taiwanese president’s son and his family.

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Higher tariffs and quality controls helped India cut its dependence on Chinese toys, but the sector is a rare exception in an otherwise worsening trade imbalance. India’s deficit with China has grown from $44bn in 2020 to $112bn this year, while China supplies more than 30% of its industrial imports and critical components, machinery and chemicals. Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping have pledged to address the structural imbalance and supply-chain problems.

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