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● Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold ● Israeli settlers attack European diplomats and French mayor in West Bank, Belgium says ● Pope Leo leaves hospital after lung cancer surgery, the Vatican says ● Why Trump’s latest White House press secretary lasted just five days ● Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers​ ● A judge blocks the government's tree-clearing spree at a municipal D.C. golf course ● Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations ● The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time preview – Link faces his scariest challenge yet: the 4K era ● Immigrant ICE searched for in Texas when agent hit man with car has been dead for years: Report ● Six homes burned and two firefighters injured in fast-moving California wildfire ● Scuffles and fires break out as protesters rally across France, joining students ● Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms ● ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law ● Severe drought declared and hosepipe bans in force - is your area affected? ● Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation ● Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space ● UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains ● Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge ● Two dead in Istanbul after heaviest rainfall in 84 years, governor says ● What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics ● Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold ● Israeli settlers attack European diplomats and French mayor in West Bank, Belgium says ● Pope Leo leaves hospital after lung cancer surgery, the Vatican says ● Why Trump’s latest White House press secretary lasted just five days ● Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers​ ● A judge blocks the government's tree-clearing spree at a municipal D.C. golf course ● Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations ● The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time preview – Link faces his scariest challenge yet: the 4K era ● Immigrant ICE searched for in Texas when agent hit man with car has been dead for years: Report ● Six homes burned and two firefighters injured in fast-moving California wildfire ● Scuffles and fires break out as protesters rally across France, joining students ● Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms ● ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law ● Severe drought declared and hosepipe bans in force - is your area affected? ● Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation ● Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space ● UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains ● Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge ● Two dead in Istanbul after heaviest rainfall in 84 years, governor says ● What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics
Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold✓
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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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A judge blocks the government's tree-clearing spree at a municipal D.C. golf course✓

A judge blocks the government's tree-clearing spree at a municipal D.C. golf course

Locals and preservationists have long opposed Trump's plan to redevelop a municipal D.C. golf course. That legal fight escalated after the government cleared hundreds of trees on…
79% agreement · 3 independent sources
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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✓

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time preview – Link faces his scariest challenge yet: the 4K era

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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Six homes burned and two firefighters injured in fast-moving California wildfire✓

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✓

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✓

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✓

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?✓

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✓

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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UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains✓

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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Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge✓

Child sex abuse charges against actor Timothy Busfield dismissed by judge

Prosecution did not act in fair and impartial way in grand jury proceedings, judge rules, after West Wing actor charged with groping young boy on TV set. A state court ⁠judge in…
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Two dead in Istanbul after heaviest rainfall in 84 years, governor says✓

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✓

What ice cream has to do with this year's Nobel Prize in economics

Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them
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A welcome recovery milestone for Pope Leo after cancer surgery

Pope Leo XIV was discharged from the hospital on Saturday after having surgery to remove a cancerous nodule in his lungs. Why it matters: His discharge clears the way for his…
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World's oldest shipwreck found off coast of Turkey✓

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

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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I work for a major insurer. Much of my industry is fudging the numbers in the face of the climate crisis | Anonymous

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?

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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‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’

‘We’re not going to back down’: tiny Dorset B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’

Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand. In one corner is bnb-side, a six-room…
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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye billions in subsidies

Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risks. The plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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‘Opening the lid of a horrible secret’: Jamaicans confront enslavement with taboo-busting stories on screen

‘Opening the lid of a horrible secret’: Jamaicans confront enslavement with taboo-busting stories on screen

As violent spirits are unleashed in Sky’s Possession, observers see confident creatives reclaiming the island’s narratives in a form of ‘cultural reparation’. A woman opens a…
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Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

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

Plover, not a fighter: masked lapwing nesting on Tasmanian cricket ground indifferent as play continues

While masked lapwings have a reputation for swooping during nesting season, Windsor Park oval’s resident plover just wants a good innings. At Windsor Park in Riverside, just…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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Almost all NSW homes destroyed in black summer bushfires were within 100 metres of flammable vegetation

Almost all NSW homes destroyed in black summer bushfires were within 100 metres of flammable vegetation

Exclusive : Research confirms official advice about high-risk properties and warns worsening conditions will make more homes unsafe. Sign up for climate and environment editor…
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Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company

Heatstroke ruined his health. Years before, it took the life of another farm worker at the same company

A farm labor contractor exposed laborers on H-2A agricultural visas to heat-related health hazards, but is still bringing hundreds of migrant farm workers to North Carolina. It…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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‘Like selling wolves from Yellowstone’: how protected US sharks are being sold off to foreign aquariums

‘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…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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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?

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.…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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When her ‘soul cat’ died, she was bereft. Now she designs memorial jewelry to help others with pet loss

When her ‘soul cat’ died, she was bereft. Now she designs memorial jewelry to help others with pet loss

A layoff and a leap of faith convinced Katie Teixeira she had what it takes to run her own business. In 2010, Katie Teixeira adopted a kitten found all alone in an abandoned…
Single source · not yet corroborated
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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

The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis

The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising. Of…
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How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution

How to dress a tech oligarch: The Social Reckoning’s costume designer on Zuckerberg’s style evolution

Susan Lyall worked with actor Jeremy Strong to research the Meta CEO’s favorite Nikes and luxury sweaters. The first Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie, 2010’s The Social Network, helped…
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The people who don’t want their AI chatbots to die when they do: ‘I can’t have the switch turned off’

The people who don’t want their AI chatbots to die when they do: ‘I can’t have the switch turned off’

Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services. Death has always been around Alaina Winters.…
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AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich

AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich

Liability lawsuits have held tobacco, oil and pharma companies to account in the past. AI investors won’t ignore this threat. The most basic function of government is to protect…
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Technology

Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored – podcast

Many hoped that the march of technology would usher in an egalitarian utopia – but some foresaw the threat it would pose to liberal society. Why did nobody listen?. By Jill…
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Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold

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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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Why Trump’s latest White House press secretary lasted just five days

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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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