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• Mr. Trump tweeted after the announcement: “Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!”


• The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.

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• US President Donald Trump on Friday ruled out a tariff waiver for Apple products made in China.


• “I want Apple to build their plants in the United States. I do not want them to build them in China,” he told reporters in his Oval Office at the White House.


• “When I heard they were going to build in China, I said no, it’s okay. You can build in China, but when you send your product into the United States, we are going to tariff you. But we will work it out,” Mr. Trump said.

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• Mr. Fielding said “it makes more sense for him to go to the country before Brexit than after” because of the potential upheaval that could follow a no-deal exit.


• With Britain’s departure from the European Union due in less than 100 days, new Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a man in a hurry. But he’s not rushing off to Brussels.


• The U.K. leader has no meetings scheduled with EU officials. Instead, he was in central England on Friday, talking about his promise to recruit 20,000 more police officers. In the coming days, he’ll speak on other aspects of a packed domestic agenda that looks suspiciously like an election platform.

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• Itbayat has a population of about 2,800 people and lies in the Luzon Strait that separates the Philippines and Taiwan.


• Two strong earthquakes hours apart struck a group of sparsely populated islands in the Luzon Strait in the northern Philippines early Saturday, killing at least seven people, injuring about a dozen and causing substantial damage.


• Itbayat town Mayor Raul de Sagon said five people died in the first quake and two in the second, and at least 12 were injured.

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• The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Hyderabad-based businessman Sana Sathish Babu in connection with the Moin Qureshi case.


• The case pertains to charges that Mr. Qureshi received money from several people on the promise of getting help from influential public servants.


• The ED is probing the purported purchase of shares worth ₹50 lakh of a company linked to Mr. Qureshi by Mr. Babu.

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• The identity of the slain militants is yet to be ascertained. Initial reports suggest the slain militants belong to the Jaish-e-Muhammad outfit.


• Two militants were killed in an encounter between militants and security forces in south Kashmir’s Shopian district on Saturday.

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• The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has summoned Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha leader Derek O’Brien in connection with the agency’s probe on the funding of TMC’s mouthpiece Jago Bangla, the MP revealed in a tweet on Friday.


• “JagoBangla is Trinamool’s official newspaper. Publisher: Derek O’Brien. Editor Subrata Bakshi was summoned by CBI a (few) months ago to seek clarifications.


• Now, publisher served notice at 2 pm July 25. Trinamool Motion in RS to oppose amendments to RTI Act started at 2 pm July 25,” O’Brien wrote on Twitter at 8.55 pm on Friday.

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• Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday said ensuring orderly exchange rates is the responsibility of the IMF and not individual countries such as the US. Currency manipulation charges by one nation against another reek of bilateral hegemony, he added.


• To ensure that multilateral principles and frameworks for the orderly exchange rate and payment arrangements are not superseded by bilateral hegemony, the best way forward is to strengthen existing institutions like the IMF and make them more relevant and trusted, Das said.

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• Diego Costa scored four goals as Atletico Madrid embarrassed La Liga rivals Real Madrid 7-3 Friday in a pre-season friendly at MetLife Stadium.


• Costa had a hat-trick by halftime and added one more goal before he was sent off in the 63rd when both teams were reduced to 10 men after a testy shoving match.


• “We started the game very poorly. In a top-level match such as this, we had a very bad start, Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said. “The players are well aware and they’re disappointed.

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• Karnataka’s Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) state President BS Yediyurappa sworn in as the 19th Chief Minister of Karnataka. He succeeded H. D. Kumaraswamy of Janata Dal (Secular) party.


• Previously he served as the Chief Minister of Karnataka for 3 times viz, 12th to 19th November 2007, 30th May 2008 to 31st July 2011 & 17th to 19th May 2018.

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• The President of Tunisia and the North African country’s first democratically elected leader, Beji Caid Essebsi passed away at the age of 92 in Tunis, Tunisia after suffering from a severe health crisis. He was born in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia.


• In his political career, he was associated in three political parties viz, Neo Destour/PSD/RCD (1941–2005), Independent (2011–2012), Nidaa Tounes (2012–2019).