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Volkswagen’s CEO, Oliver Blume, is reportedly planning drastic measures to boost competitiveness, including potentially cutting up to 100,000 jobs and closing four German factories. Volkswagen has finally said the number out loud. In an internal memo to staff, CEO Oliver Blume flagged roughly 50,000 additional job cuts on top of the 50,000 already agreed across...

Hello and welcome to another edition of Offside. Now, there’s a phrase on OSINT Twitter: “monitoring the situation”. It refers to the lives of those individuals who are really into bird-watching, except their birds are usually military planes and other assorted objects of mass destruction.Football fans, too, have been monitoring the situation for the last...

Trump said the toll would be used to meet “any and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security to this very volatile section of the World.” (AP Photo) Trump announces toll for Hormuz: US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the US is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in...

Healthcare crisis in Pakistan: Islamabad faces shortage of 100 life-saving medicines, including cancer drugs, morphine & vaccines (Representative ANI, IANS image) Pakistan is facing a severe shortage of more than 100 essential medicines, including life-saving drugs used to treat cancer, heart disease and other serious illnesses, after delays in approving revised medicine prices disrupted production,...

Beavers are finally released at Boothby Wildland. Photograph: Jonathan Perugia/Gaia Visual for Nattergal A bold experiment in Lincolnshire (County in England) is showing that restoring British nature can become a highly profitable business, with a planned beaver colony at the centre of a multimillion-pound land transformation, reports the Guardian.Four years after conservation company Nattergal bought...

UK bans IRGC and proxy Iranian organisation ove attacks on Jewish community The UK has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, in a major escalation of diplomatic tensions with Tehran, as it also outlawed a proxy group behind a series of arson attacks on Jewish sites in Britain.The Home Office announced...

Virat Kohli, Shubman Gill, and Rohit Sharma NEW DELHI: India ODI captain Shubman Gill has thrown his weight behind Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, insisting the veteran duo continue to be central to India’s plans as the team builds towards the 2027 ODI World Cup.Addressing speculation around the future of the two senior batters ahead...

Israel’s Mossad allegedly tried to recruit Iran’s former president Ahmadinejad Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad allegedly spent years trying to recruit former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as part of a broader plan to overthrow Iran’s leadership and eventually install him as the country’s new leader.The New York Times report, citing American and Iranian officials familiar with...

India’s Sanju Samson with head coach Gautam Gambhir (PTI Photo) Former India chief selector MSK Prasad has urged patience before judging head coach Gautam Gambhir‘s tenure, saying the T20I defeats to Ireland and England came without two of India’s most influential players, Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah.India endured a difficult tour, losing the two-match series...

Iranian state media on Monday released launch footage showing a ballistic missile bearing the words “GAME OVER USA” painted in red along its body, as Tehran continued its “eye-for-an-eye” military operation following recent US strikes on Iran.The footage, broadcast by Iranian state media, appeared to show the missile being launched toward what Iran said were...