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FBI Fires More Agents Linked To Trump Election Probe: Sources
The FBI has continued its personnel purge, forcing out additional agents and supervisors tied to the federal investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Opinion | China's Great Military Bloodbath: Why Is Xi Firing His Own Loyalists?
On October 17, 2025, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expelled nine of its most senior military leaders, including members of the Central Military Commission, former defence ministers, and theatre commanders. What's behind these purges?
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How A KGB Assassin's Divorce Request Triggered Britain's Largest Spy Purge
On a late summer evening in 1971, a KGB officer walked into a north London police station with a strange request. He wanted to be expelled from Britain to divorce his wife.
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Trump Says He Wants To Meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un This Year
US President Donald Trump said Monday he hoped to meet again with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, possibly this year, as he held White House talks with South Korea's dovish new leader that got off awkwardly.
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Microsoft To Lay Off Over 9,000 Employees, 2nd Big Job Purge In Months: Report
Microsoft is laying off as many as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of its employees in the largest round of job cuts since 2023, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday.
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Trump Fires National Security Agency Director Timothy Haugh: Report
US President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, in a national security purge that sources said on Friday included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council.
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Blue Origin Reschedules New Glenn Rocket Launch After Technical Setback
A technical issue has delayed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch, initially planned for January 13, 2025. Ice formation in a purge line of the auxiliary power unit caused the mission to be scrubbed. The reusable first stage of the rocket is set to land on a ship named Jacklyn after liftoff. Blue Origin has rescheduled the launch for January 16, ...
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Iran Begins Purge After Hamas Chief's Assassination In Tehran
In response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in its capital Tehran, Iran has arrested over two dozen individuals, including high-ranking intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at a military-run guesthouse in the capital.
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Russia Arrests Top General On Corruption Charges: Report
In the latest in the sequence of purges in the country's top offices, the deputy head of the army's general staff, Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, was arrested on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Al Jazeera reported.
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"Purge The Party": Navjot Sidhu's War Cry Amid Congress' Himachal Crisis
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu this morning launched a strong attack on six party MLAs who cross-voted in Tuesday's Rajya Sabha election - handing the party a defeat in an exercise it should have won with ease - and then seemed to join the BJP.
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"Mother Of Democracy... ": Kapil Sibal On Suspension Of Parliament MPs
Opening out after 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses on Monday, making it the biggest single-day purge in the history of India's Parliament, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said "mother of democracy has orphaned it".
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In Xi Jinping's China, A "Stalin-Like Purge" Cracks Down On Key Personnel
Hundreds of government personnel in China have vanished under ambiguous circumstances, prompting comparisons to deadly purges overseen by former Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, a report claims.
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China's Defense Minister Sacked Amid Mystery, Was Last Seen On Aug 29
China's Li Shangfu became the nation's shortest-serving defense minister ever, ending months of speculation over his status as President Xi Jinping rolls on with high-profile purges that worry investors.
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Elon Musk Says Some Twitter Accounts May See Followers Drop. Here's Why
Elon Musk on Monday announced that Twitter is canceling accounts that haven't been used for a long time.
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Vladimir Putin Sacks "Butcher Of Mariupol" General Mikhail Mizintsev In Military Purge
President Vladimir Putin has frequently reshuffled top military figures without explanation.
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FBI Fires More Agents Linked To Trump Election Probe: Sources
The FBI has continued its personnel purge, forcing out additional agents and supervisors tied to the federal investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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Opinion | China's Great Military Bloodbath: Why Is Xi Firing His Own Loyalists?
On October 17, 2025, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) expelled nine of its most senior military leaders, including members of the Central Military Commission, former defence ministers, and theatre commanders. What's behind these purges?
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How A KGB Assassin's Divorce Request Triggered Britain's Largest Spy Purge
On a late summer evening in 1971, a KGB officer walked into a north London police station with a strange request. He wanted to be expelled from Britain to divorce his wife.
-
Trump Says He Wants To Meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un This Year
US President Donald Trump said Monday he hoped to meet again with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, possibly this year, as he held White House talks with South Korea's dovish new leader that got off awkwardly.
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Microsoft To Lay Off Over 9,000 Employees, 2nd Big Job Purge In Months: Report
Microsoft is laying off as many as 4%, or roughly 9,100, of its employees in the largest round of job cuts since 2023, the Seattle Times reported on Wednesday.
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Trump Fires National Security Agency Director Timothy Haugh: Report
US President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, in a national security purge that sources said on Friday included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council.
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Blue Origin Reschedules New Glenn Rocket Launch After Technical Setback
A technical issue has delayed Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket launch, initially planned for January 13, 2025. Ice formation in a purge line of the auxiliary power unit caused the mission to be scrubbed. The reusable first stage of the rocket is set to land on a ship named Jacklyn after liftoff. Blue Origin has rescheduled the launch for January 16, ...
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Iran Begins Purge After Hamas Chief's Assassination In Tehran
In response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in its capital Tehran, Iran has arrested over two dozen individuals, including high-ranking intelligence officers, military officials, and staff at a military-run guesthouse in the capital.
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Russia Arrests Top General On Corruption Charges: Report
In the latest in the sequence of purges in the country's top offices, the deputy head of the army's general staff, Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin, was arrested on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Al Jazeera reported.
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"Purge The Party": Navjot Sidhu's War Cry Amid Congress' Himachal Crisis
Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu this morning launched a strong attack on six party MLAs who cross-voted in Tuesday's Rajya Sabha election - handing the party a defeat in an exercise it should have won with ease - and then seemed to join the BJP.
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"Mother Of Democracy... ": Kapil Sibal On Suspension Of Parliament MPs
Opening out after 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses on Monday, making it the biggest single-day purge in the history of India's Parliament, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal said "mother of democracy has orphaned it".
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In Xi Jinping's China, A "Stalin-Like Purge" Cracks Down On Key Personnel
Hundreds of government personnel in China have vanished under ambiguous circumstances, prompting comparisons to deadly purges overseen by former Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, a report claims.
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China's Defense Minister Sacked Amid Mystery, Was Last Seen On Aug 29
China's Li Shangfu became the nation's shortest-serving defense minister ever, ending months of speculation over his status as President Xi Jinping rolls on with high-profile purges that worry investors.
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Elon Musk Says Some Twitter Accounts May See Followers Drop. Here's Why
Elon Musk on Monday announced that Twitter is canceling accounts that haven't been used for a long time.
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Vladimir Putin Sacks "Butcher Of Mariupol" General Mikhail Mizintsev In Military Purge
President Vladimir Putin has frequently reshuffled top military figures without explanation.
