Morning brief: Trump's mounting legal expenses, Putin aide's ultimate nuclear threat, and more
Morning news brief
Former US President Donald Trump's legal woes have forced him to create a defence fund, purportedly named 'Patriot Legal Defense Fund', to support his legal expenses.
The war zone in Ukraine remains tense as specter of nuclear war continues to threaten Kyiv, after a top Putin aide's comments highlighting Moscow's nuclear belligerence.
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Trump's courtroom woes force him to create legal defence fund amid 2024 race to White House
Former US President Donald Trump's team is in the process of establishing a legal defence fund to manage the whopping legal expenses stemming from a series of federal investigations and criminal indictments against him, multiple reports in the US media said on Monday.
‘Nuclear war if...': Putin's top aide issues ultimate threat
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The Royals enter the Doctor Who universe: King Charles and Queen Camilla beam into Commonwealth Games in TARDIS
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Unitree Robotics targets $9 billion valuation in landmark IPO backed by DeepSeek and Tencent
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India names 27 sites in Arunachal Pradesh
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Bharat Bhhagya Viddhaata OTT: When will Kangana Ranaut's film stream online?
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‘Fake news’: MEA rejects report claiming India sought defence pact with Israel after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey deal
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Russia forms Ukrainian Volunteer Spetsnaz Brigade to fight Ukraine
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Technology transfer deal boosts India's defence manufacturing ambitions
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Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth scripts history as Indian Air Force gets its first woman ‘Top Gun’ pilot
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RSS says Gen Z protests reflect genuine distress
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IAF officer held for sharing sensitive information in 'honey trap' case, booked under Official Secrets Act
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India officially names 27 places in Arunachal to counter China's renaming claims
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Trump calls White House ballroom ruling a 'national disgrace' as court says Congress approval needed
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US sanctions Iran’s crypto network after Strait of Hormuz attacks, offers $15m bounty for intel on IRGC finance
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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has once again stirred the 'nuclear' conversation by stating that Moscow will have to use the atomic weapon if Kyiv's ongoing counter-offensive was a success.
China blackmailing Uyghur refugees living abroad to spy for it, claims report
After subjugating the Uyghur population in its backyard to torture and horrors of the concentration camps, China is now pressuring Uyghurs living abroad to spy on human rights campaigners, according to a BBC report.
The publication claims that Beijing is using intimidating tactics by threatening families back home to get the foreign-living Uyghurs to do its surveillance job.
Manipur violence LIVE | Women seen in sexual assault video approach Supreme Court
Two women who were subjected to horrific sexual assault and violence in Manipur have knocked on the door of India's Supreme Court. The apex court and its bench, led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Monday (July 31) will hear the petition.
WION will keep a track of the latest on crucial judicial hearing in New Delhi.
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