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Islamic State (IS) group jihadists have “executed” eight Syrian soldiers after an ambush, a war monitor said on Sunday, as it reported that the jihadists had killed 14 troops in recent days.

Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually, the EU Tax Observatory said on Monday. If levied, the sum would be equivalent to only 2% of the nearly $13 trillion in wealth owned by the 2,700 billionaires globally, the research group hosted at the Paris School of Economics said. Currently billionaires' effective personal tax is often far less than what other taxpayers of more modest means pay because they can park wealth in shell companies sheltering them from income ta...

An attack Thursday on a Syrian military academy killed more than 100 people, a war monitor said, with state media blaming "terrorist organisations" for the deadly drone strike in government-held Homs.In the central Syrian city of Homs, "armed terrorist organisations" targeted "the graduation ceremony for officers of the military academy", an army statement carried by official news agency SANA said.

The LEGO Group has named Andy Grant as its global creative lead, brand, according to a LinkedIn post by Grant. Grant was previously executive creative director at TBWA\ Group Singapore.