India
EC tells SC most deleted Bengal voters won their appeals
About 93% of decided SIR cases restored names to the roll; 8,649 lost and stay off.
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Iran warns US ships in the Indian Ocean face attack if war resumes
Security council secretary Mohsen Rezaei says Tehran is ready for a naval confrontation.
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China's rare-earth magnet exports to the US drop before Xi meets Trump
August shipments fell 21% to 512 tons, with critical minerals on the Thursday agenda.
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Z.ai faces backlash after its coding tool uploads local workspaces
Developers found ZCode sending encrypted Git snapshots to the cloud by default.
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BBC cuts Mitchell and Webb blackface sketches from iPlayer
Eleven scenes are gone for the show's 20th anniversary; critics call it overkill.
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India women thrash Pakistan in Asian Games table tennis
A 3-0 sweep with no sets dropped sends the paddlers into the quarterfinals.
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Australia will seek a UN Security Council seat from 2029
Albanese launched the bid in New York; Finland is the other Western European nominee.
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