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Forget Twitter. This Musk is into 'toe curling yumminess.'
Tosca Musk, 47, is the force behind Passionflix, an upstart subscription streaming service dedicated to movie and series adaptations of mass-market romance novels and erotic fan fiction
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Putin's threats highlight the dangers of a new, riskier nuclear era
Russia's regular reminders over the past three months of its nuclear might, even if largely bluster, were the latest evidence of how the potential threat has resurfaced in more overt and dangerous ways
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Diamonds forge cornerstone of Israeli-Indian relations
Israel's Diamond Exchange is home to some 30 Indian companies, making India the foreign nation with the biggest number of firms on the bourse
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Who is Mark Zuckerberg's new no. 2? It's a trick question.
While Zuckerberg named Javier Olivan, a longtime executive, to take over Sheryl Sandberg's job when she departs, the importance of the chief operating officer role has diminished at Meta, which was formerly known as Facebook
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Europe's Russian oil ban could mean a new world order for energy
In the past couple of months, Russia has become the second biggest oil supplier to India, leapfrogging other big producers like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
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Oil price rises even as OPEC boosts output more than expected
In Vienna, the OPEC+ group decided to add 648,000 barrels per day to the market in July, up from the 432,000 bpd increases in recent months, and a shift from the cartel's recent stance of sticking to a planned pace of monthly production hikes
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US Federal Reserve's Lael Brainard says pause in rate hikes unlikely
Brainard stressed the central bank's priority was to bring inflation down, even if the US economy will slow as a result, but said it was too early to determine when demand will ease and when the labor supply will increase
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NFT market sees first insider trading case in US
A product manager at New York-based OpenSea last year secretly bought dozens of NFTs that were about to be featured on the platform's home page, federal prosecutors said in a statement
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Johnny Depp jury finds that Amber Heard defamed him in op-ed
For six weeks, the defamation case that actor Johnny Depp filed against his ex-wife Amber Heard transfixed the US, offering a rare instance of high-profile #MeToo charges and countercharges, including lurid accusations of physical abuse, being hashed out in the public spotlight of a courtroom
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Elon Musk to workers: Spend 40 hours in the office, or else
Over the past few years, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and many other companies have announced and then delayed return-to-office dates as coronavirus surges have complicated plans, even as remote work became normalised
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100 days of war in Ukraine: A timeline
As Russia extends its grip over the east, we look back on 100 days of fighting that has killed tens of thousands of civilians and reduced entire cities to rubble