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Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., speaks during an unveiling event in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Amazon has rebooted Alexa with artificial intelligence, marking the biggest overhaul of the voice-activated assistant since its introduction over a decade ago. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Amazon to create thousands of new U.K. jobs as part of $54 billion investment—PM Starmer calls the deal ‘another major win’

By James Pheby and AFP

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – JUNE 22: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. U.S. President Donald Trump gave an address to the nation last night after three Iranian nuclear facilities were struck by the U.S. military. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Pentagon says U.S. strikes ‘devastated’ Iran’s nuclear program but weren’t aimed at regime change

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FILE – Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

SpaceX Starship blows up during routine launchpad test, the latest setback in Elon Musk’s quest to go interplanetary

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A general view of Nvidia headquarters is seen in Shanghai, China, on May 19, 2025, as Nvidia plans further investment for the Shanghai research center. (Photo by Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Malaysia is verifying media reports that the country is being used to evade U.S. export controls on Nvidia chips

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Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand’s prime minister, arrives at a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Thailand’s government faces collapse after a leaked phone call unleashed fresh political turmoil, with Paetongtarn facing resignation calls and street protests as she grapples with the exit of the second-biggest party in her coalition. Photographer: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Thailand’s prime minister faces political crisis after phone call with former Cambodian leader gets leaked

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People taking part in a demonstration organised by the Palestinian Youth Movement Britain (PYM) near the Israeli embassy in London, in protest against the escalating aggression in the middle east following the Israeli air strikes against Iran. Picture date: Friday June 13, 2025. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)

Iranians living in Europe are torn between the hope for a new era and concern for their loved ones

By Jean-Philippe Lacour, Caroline Taix, and others

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – OCTOBER 23: The MI6 building in Vauxhall turns pink in the lead up to Breast Cancer Campaign’s wear it pink on October 23, 2013 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images for Breast Cancer Campaign)

Britain appoints first female MI6 head, who calls herself a ‘self-confessed geek’

By Marie Heuclin and AFP

Luca de Meo, chief executive officer of Renault SA, during the 2025 VivaTech conference in Paris, France, on Wednesday, June 11, 2025. The annual technology and startup conference runs until June 14. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gucci owner Kering sees stock jump after Renault CEO quits to lead the luxury group

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CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos and partner Lauren Sanchez attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, 2025. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Travel & Leisure

Venice is set to host Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s fairytale wedding—but residents aren’t feeling the love

By AFP

12 June 2025, Italy, Rom: Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, speaks at a press conference during the Weimar Plus meeting. Photo: Hannes P. Albert/dpa (Photo by Hannes P Albert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

As NATO boosts defense spending, Europe’s arms industry faces pressure to deliver: ‘This is really keeping me up at night,’ says NATO chief

By Max Delany and AFP

Toronto , Canada – 21 June 2022; Andrew Macdonald, SVP of Mobility Business Operations, Uber, on Centre Stage during day one of Collision 2022 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)

Uber to launch self-driving taxis in London despite COO labeling the city’s roads as some of the ‘world’s busiest and most complex’

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Papuans hold placards reading “revoke all nickel mining permits in Raja Ampat immediately” during a protest march to the Southwest Papua Governor’s office in Sorong on June 10, 2025. Indonesia revoked permits on June 10 for four of the five mining companies operating in the eastern archipelago of Raja Ampat after activists shared videos of islands damaged by nickel extraction. (Photo by AWAKIRAYA / AFP) (Photo by AWAKIRAYA/AFP via Getty Images)

Indonesia cancels several nickel mining permits in the dive hotspot of Raja Ampat after viral clips show environmental damage

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Annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel prior to being crushed into powder at Neo Material Technologies Inc.’s Magnequench Tianjin Co. factory in Tianjin, China, on Friday, June 11, 2010. A generation after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made mastering neodymium and 16 other elements known as rare-earths a priority, China has cornered the market, with far-reaching effects ranging from job losses and global trade to U.S. national security. Photographer: Doug Kanter/Bloomberg via Getty Images

How China’s embrace of rare earth export controls is hitting the global car industry

By AFP

Models of the lunar lander Resilience (centre, L) and the lunar rover Tenacious (centre, R) operated by Japanese private company ispace are displayed at the Moon landing event venue in Tokyo on June 6, 2025. Japan’s hopes of achieving its first soft touchdown on the Moon by a private company were dashed on June 6 when the mission was aborted after an assumed crash-landing, the startup said. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)

Japan’s ispace aborts mission to be the first non-U.S. private company to land on the Moon after suspected crash

By AFP

PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 14: A view of the Hermes Original Birkin belonging to Jane Birkin, presented for the Exhibition l’Excellence à la Française on October 14, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Luc Castel/Getty Images)

The first ever Birkin bag—born in 1984 at the request of actress Jane Birkin for a bag designed for motherhood—heads to auction

By AFP