World News: 26 May 2023

FBI reveals 1980s plot to kill Queen Elizabeth II
They show how the FBI, which helped secure the monarch's safety during her visits, worried about IRA threats. The assassination threat was made to a police officer in San Francisco.
According to the file, an officer who frequented an Irish pub in San Francisco warned federal agents about a call from a man he had met at the venue.
The officer said the man told him he was seeking revenge for his daughter who "had been killed in Northern Ireland by a rubber bullet". The threat came on 4 February 1983 - about a month ahead of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip's visit to California.

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Russia moves ahead with deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus
Since invading Ukraine last year, Putin has said repeatedly that Russia would be ready to use nuclear weapons if needed to defend its “territorial integrity”.
NATO said at the time it did not see any need to adjust its own nuclear posture, although the military alliance cast Putin’s nuclear rhetoric as “dangerous and irresponsible”.

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Unexploded WWII bomb forces evacuation of 2,500 residents in Poland
The bomb weighing 250 kilograms (550 pounds) was found near a railway overpass in the city in southwestern Poland during construction work.
Poland's armed forces said it was a German SC-250 aerial bomb from the war.

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Credit Suisse ordered to pay $926 million in Georgia prime minister case
Former Georgia prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and his family lost millions in investments because of a fraudster in the bank who swindled away large sums of money.
The court found that a fraudster within the ranks of the bank had embezzled many millions of dollars from the trust over nine years, and the defendant had breached its duty to safeguard his assets.

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Deadline looming, Biden and McCarthy narrow in on budget deal to lift debt ceiling
Failure to raise the nation’s debt ceiling, now at $31 trillion, to pay America's already incurred bills would risk a potentially chaotic federal default. Anxious retirees and social service groups are among those already making default contingency plans.

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Mediterranean boat carrying 500 migrants has disappeared, rescuers say
At the time, the boat was adrift, with no working engine, in high seas about 320 km (200 miles) north of the Libyan port of Benghazi and more than 400 km away from Malta or Italy's southern island of Sicily.

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