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Turkey vows to battle on as 14 troops killed in Syria

  Istanbul/ AFP Turkey on Thursday vowed to press on with the fight against “terror”, a day after 14 Turkish soldiers were killed by extremists in an intensifying battle for a flashpoint Syrian town, Ankara’s biggest loss of its Syria campaign so far. The soldiers were killed in a succession of attacks by IS extremists around the town of Al-Bab ...

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Digital advertising becomes a human-free zone

  WhiteOps, a US cybersecurity company, says it has uncovered the biggest online advertising scam ever, operated from Russia and making between $2.6 million and $5.2 million a day —as much as four times what the New York Times makes from advertising. The announcement should be a warning to anyone entrusted with a corporate budget to spend on online marketing: ...

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Another big fat Indian deleveraging

  India’s ‘House of Debt’ is still swaying, though a little less dangerously than before. For the country’s highly leveraged companies, the year is closing on a somewhat more cheerful note than seemed possible six months ago. First, it was the billionaire Ruia brothers delivering the good news to Standard Chartered Plc and other creditors. As much as $5 billion ...

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