✓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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Israeli settlers attack European diplomats and French mayor in West Bank, Belgium says
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Pope Leo leaves hospital after lung cancer surgery, the Vatican 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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A judge blocks the government's tree-clearing spree at a municipal D.C. golf course
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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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✓The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time preview – Link faces his scariest challenge yet: the 4K era
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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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✓Six homes burned and two firefighters injured in fast-moving California wildfire
About 6,000 homes under evacuation, affecting 16,000 residents in San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano. At least six homes burned and two firefighters were injured after a…
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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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✓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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✓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
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✓Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space
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✓UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains
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✓Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge
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✓Two dead in Istanbul after heaviest rainfall in 84 years, governor says
Residents have been told to avoid leaving their homes unless absolutely necessary
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✓What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics
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A welcome recovery milestone for Pope Leo after cancer surgery
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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
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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
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OpenAI’s Jason Kwon gave even-toned, reassuring answers to the Australian government. Did … ChatGPT write this?
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‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’
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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies
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‘Opening the lid of a horrible secret’: Jamaicans confront enslavement with taboo-busting stories on screen
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Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’
Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ health. Leer en español en Quinto…
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Plover, not a fighter: masked lapwing nesting on Tasmanian cricket ground indifferent as play continues
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Almost all NSW homes destroyed in black summer bushfires were within 100 metres of flammable vegetation
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Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums
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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?
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