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Dutch central bank moves 86 tonnes of gold to UK from US and Canada, citing ‘geopolitical unrest’
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Nobel laureate Machado: ‘Illegitimate’ Venezuela regime has no right to strike US oil deal
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✓Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza
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✓Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as ‘Lake America’ for US users after Trump order
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✓Fake 10 Downing Street listing exposes 'unfit' Booking.com, says consumer group
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Google Maps switches to "Lake America" as Canada compares change to "SNL" skit
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✓ICE agent charged with lying about shooting Venezuelan man during crackdown
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✓Nvidia to buy developer platform Hugging Face in $12.9bn deal
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✓London’s first self-driving taxis for hire hit the streets
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Thames Water, I refuse to pay the sewage charge in my bill while you pollute Britain’s rivers and coastlines | Jenny Jones
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This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it
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Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images
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A sun goddess, hundreds of devotees – and polluted water: the Nigerian festival threatened by gold mining
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Australian science prize awarded to researcher studying memory accuracy of domestic violence survivors
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