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Oct 30, 2026 - World

Alice Huang, a Chinese citizen, and top executive at Singapore-based data centre company Megaspeed was identified by US spy agencies as an intelligence asset for China.

Oct 30, 2026 - World

Shintaphu Lake,located at the source of the Mo Chhu River, is considered one of Bhutan's 17 potentially dangerous glacial lakes.

Oct 30, 2026 - World

The strength of the European military mission in this Balkan country, where it is tasked with maintaining peace, varies between 1,000 and 1,500 personnel.

Oct 30, 2026 - World

Cross-party committee says ‘moonshot’ vow to end obesity epidemic in a decade will fail without personal leadership from PMThe UK government’s promise to reverse rising obesity rates in the next decade is “doomed to fail” without a major rethink and a new plan led directly by the prime minister, a cross-party committee of MPs has concluded.The health and social care select committee said in a report that there are no signs the so-called “moonshot ambition on obesity”, set out in the 10-year health plan for England, will achieve anything significant. Continue reading...

Oct 30, 2026 - World

Next month’s poll no longer the contest it was, as Pedro Sánchez finds himself forced to defend government’s safety recordOne of the most dependable cliches of contemporary Spanish politics is that it never pays to bet against Pedro Sánchez. Time and time again – as leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party (PSOE) and as prime minister – Sánchez has shown an almost preternatural ability to profit from adversity, and to confound expectations and wrongfoot his opponents.But next month’s snap general election, called by Sánchez after rightwing and far-right parties voted down the housing reforms his coalition government had announced in response to angry protests, may suddenly not be the contest it once was. Continue reading...