✓Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold
Zelenskyy described the move as unfortunate, adding it would encourage Russia to continue its assault. Trump told Congress that the pause was in the national interest but gave no…
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Pope Leo leaves hospital after lung cancer surgery, the Vatican says
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Israeli settlers attack European diplomats and French mayor in West Bank, Belgium says
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Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers
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Sunday shows preview: Trump-Zelensky feud escalates; Controversies hit White House before midterms
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The kingdom of Hyrule has been prettified, the soundtrack is newly orchestrated and our hero feels strikingly different under the thumbs … we play a hands-on demo of Nintendo’s…
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Immigrant ICE searched for in Texas when agent hit man with car has been dead for years: Report
The immigrant that federal agents were pursuing when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer hit and injured a man with a vehicle in Houston has apparently been dead…
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✓Violent clashes, looting and buildings ablaze in France as over 1,000 arrested after protests
Disorder broke out in cities across the country on a day in which more than half a million joined cost of living protests
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✓No further action against government adviser's wife over Palestine Action post, police say
Sarah Helm, who is married to Jonathan Powell, was responding to a discussion about the author Sally Rooney
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✓Scuffles and fires break out as protesters rally across France, joining students
Demonstrators across France converged with students Saturday to protest rising living costs, as the country's fiscal crisis deepens
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Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations
The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced more than $1.2 billion in penalties against Bank of America for years of failures to report suspicious transactions and address…
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✓Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms
Forest clearance at smallest total since records began in 1988 in success for Lula ahead of presidential run-off. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has fallen to its lowest…
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Man and woman charged with assault and criminal damage after fatal house fire
A man and a woman have been charged with assault and criminal damage after a fatal house fire in Waterford, Ireland, that killed four members of the same family
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Huckabee condemns Israeli settlers' attack on Washington Post photojournalist
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, condemned what he called a “vicious” and “cowardly” attack on a Washington Post photojournalist in the West Bank. The U.S. envoy…
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✓ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law
Committee recognises work of South African who chaired UN commission that concluded Israel was guilty of genocide in Gaza. The Nobel peace prize has been awarded to Navi Pillay,…
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✓Severe drought declared and hosepipe bans in force - is your area affected?
Parts of southern England have entered "severe drought", while about 30 million people are under hosepipe ban
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Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation
The rupture between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over last week's diesel deal deepened Wednesday after an Elon Musk -owned satellite system used by…
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✓Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space
The Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel says Musk and Bezos each want to colonize the moon, mine its resources and launch thousands more satellites. He says their only real competition…
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Crush at religious festival kills at least 17 and injures dozens in India
At least 17 people have died and dozens more are injured after a crush at a religious festival in India, local media reports
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✓UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains
United Arab Emirates will reportedly resume payments to Yemeni forces as gains by Iran-backed Houthi fighters alarm Gulf state rulers. Yemen civil war: what sparked latest…
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Protesters allege police brutality as violent clashes rage on in Albania
Protesters in Albania accuse riot police of brutality as clashes turn violent outside the Education Ministry
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✓Katie Zacharia leaving White House role less than five days into job
Her public debut as press secretary ended with a flurry of media criticism about her credentials and preparedness
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✓What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics
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✓World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey
Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age
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Is it really ‘madness’ to account for emissions from fossil fuels burned overseas? The Coalition sure thinks so | Temperature Check
The emissions might occur elsewhere, but they generate global harm that scientists can now quantify. Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air…
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‘Austerity is inevitably painful’: How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty – podcast
For more than three decades, Michael Gove has been a leading figure in British Conservatism. As a journalist, government minister and now editor of the Tory bible, the Spectator,…
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I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | Anonymous
Insurers are taking on more risk than they should. If – or when – a major disaster hits, the catastrophe will have far-reaching consequences. I work for a major insurer, assessing…
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OpenAI’s Jason Kwon gave even-toned, reassuring answers to the Australian government. Did … ChatGPT write this?
Kwon’s answers were provided in a helpful, quiet and calm manner, but his mea culpa left the audience not much the wiser. Open AI’s Jason Kwon flew 15 hours from San Francisco to…
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The hill I will die on: Cinemas have been getting away with lies. Films should begin on time | Jeffrey Ingold
If cinemas must run 20 minutes of adverts before a feature, they could at least be honest about it. Or, I have a better solution …. Do you remember the last time you were lied to?…
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The right’s scrounger rhetoric dominates the benefits debate. Labour must fight back – and win | Frances Ryan
The prime minister has a once-in-a-generation chance to reintroduce fairness to the system. He has to seize the moment. Back in 2009, months before the coalition government…
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‘Opening the lid of a horrible secret’: Jamaicans confront enslavement with taboo-busting stories on screen
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Almost all NSW homes destroyed in black summer bushfires were within 100 metres of flammable vegetation
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums
While anglers cannot take endangered sand tiger sharks, a loophole lets private firms catch the fish to sell abroad, profiting from Delaware Bay’s conservation success. Shortly…
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This is one of Norway’s most pristine fjords. So why is it being used as a dumping site for mine waste?
The Norwegian government has given a permit to a mining company to release waste into Førde fjord despite a 17-year battle by campaigners and a supreme court ruling against it.…
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The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis
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How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution
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Plover, not a fighter: protected bird 12th man on Tasmanian cricket ground as staff mow around nest
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Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California
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The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures – as is the fear of ‘falling behind the public’
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