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Moscow is enlisting Danes to assist in planning attacks on Ukrainian-linked defence companies, Denmark's national security and intelligence service announced Thursday. PET disclosed the recruitment effort in a statement released that day.Through a message sent last month, Tehran conveyed to Washington that an Israeli assault on the Ali al-Taher ridge—where its troops operate with Hezbollah—would trigger Iranian retaliation. The ridge, where Hezbollah maintains underground facilities for command and storage, ranks among the war's most fiercely contested locations.Iran warned the US it will respond forcefully if Israel continues attacking a fortified ridge in southeastern Lebanon where Hezbollah operates. Two officials said more than a dozen Iranian Revolutionary Guards members, including two senior officers, are positioned there alongside Hezbollah fighters. Iran had alerted Washington in mid-August to a possible Israeli offensive on the site.Spanish opposition parties accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning Ceuta residents. Police dispersed demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets near Congress, with four people detained and four officers injured.Israeli forces conducted detonations in the towns of Haddatha and Baraachit in southern Lebanon early Thursday, according to the National News Agency. Israeli drones were also reported flying over Tyre.Deirdre Gogarty, who claimed Ireland's first female world boxing title in 1997, has written a letter to Katie Taylor ahead of Taylor's retirement fight on Saturday at Croke Park in Dublin. Taylor wrote to Gogarty in 1996 as a young boxer, expressing doubt that women's boxing would take off in Ireland, but went on to win Olympic gold in 2012 and help transform the sport globally.Incendiary devices were thrown at a construction site in Munich. The Bavarian State Criminal Police is investigating whether the attack had a political motive. Two people were arrested in connection with the incident.The payments company is implementing a cost-saving programme led by its new chief executive that includes a 20% reduction in its global headcount. The cuts affect 164 employees in Ireland and dozens of workers in Israel, amid intensifying competition in the payments sector.The former England captain has criticized ticket costs at next summer's men's Ashes Test, with Hollies Stand seats rising to £165 from £115 in 2023. Entry-level adult tickets for the first three days start at £115 before a £2.50 booking fee is added.The Professor Molchanov, a Russian ship, was impounded off Svalbard following a 24-hour standoff with Norway's coast guard. The action enforces a $4.22 billion judgment that a 2023 tribunal in The Hague awarded to Naftogaz for assets Russia seized during its 2014 annexation of Crimea.Moscow is enlisting Danes to assist in planning attacks on Ukrainian-linked defence companies, Denmark's national security and intelligence service announced Thursday. PET disclosed the recruitment effort in a statement released that day.Through a message sent last month, Tehran conveyed to Washington that an Israeli assault on the Ali al-Taher ridge—where its troops operate with Hezbollah—would trigger Iranian retaliation. The ridge, where Hezbollah maintains underground facilities for command and storage, ranks among the war's most fiercely contested locations.Iran warned the US it will respond forcefully if Israel continues attacking a fortified ridge in southeastern Lebanon where Hezbollah operates. Two officials said more than a dozen Iranian Revolutionary Guards members, including two senior officers, are positioned there alongside Hezbollah fighters. Iran had alerted Washington in mid-August to a possible Israeli offensive on the site.Spanish opposition parties accused Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning Ceuta residents. Police dispersed demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets near Congress, with four people detained and four officers injured.Israeli forces conducted detonations in the towns of Haddatha and Baraachit in southern Lebanon early Thursday, according to the National News Agency. Israeli drones were also reported flying over Tyre.Deirdre Gogarty, who claimed Ireland's first female world boxing title in 1997, has written a letter to Katie Taylor ahead of Taylor's retirement fight on Saturday at Croke Park in Dublin. Taylor wrote to Gogarty in 1996 as a young boxer, expressing doubt that women's boxing would take off in Ireland, but went on to win Olympic gold in 2012 and help transform the sport globally.Incendiary devices were thrown at a construction site in Munich. The Bavarian State Criminal Police is investigating whether the attack had a political motive. Two people were arrested in connection with the incident.The payments company is implementing a cost-saving programme led by its new chief executive that includes a 20% reduction in its global headcount. The cuts affect 164 employees in Ireland and dozens of workers in Israel, amid intensifying competition in the payments sector.The former England captain has criticized ticket costs at next summer's men's Ashes Test, with Hollies Stand seats rising to £165 from £115 in 2023. Entry-level adult tickets for the first three days start at £115 before a £2.50 booking fee is added.The Professor Molchanov, a Russian ship, was impounded off Svalbard following a 24-hour standoff with Norway's coast guard. The action enforces a $4.22 billion judgment that a 2023 tribunal in The Hague awarded to Naftogaz for assets Russia seized during its 2014 annexation of Crimea.
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