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✓ Verified Israeli settlers attack European diplomats and French mayor in West Bank, Belgium says
Israeli settlers have allegedly attacked Palestinian civilians, European diplomats and a French mayor in the West Bank, sparking international condemnation
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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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Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers
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Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations
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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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✓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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✓Buildings set ablaze and more than 1,200 arrested as police clash with protesters across France
Police fire teargas in Paris and Limoges town hall ‘largely lost’ to fire – with officials blaming violence on ‘ultra-left’. More than 1,200 people were arrested in France on…
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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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✓‘Serious incident’ at Alberta military base causes deaths and injuries, Canada officials say
Incident at CFB Wainwright base in Alberta caused a ‘major fire’ that is spreading to the nearby town because of strong winds. People have been killed and injured after an…
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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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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…
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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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✓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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✓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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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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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
Prices can get sticky. That helps explain why recessions hurt so much — and what policymakers can do about them
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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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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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‘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
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…
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‘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’
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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Ebike rider, 13, charged with sexual touching after girls and women allegedly harassed on northern beaches
Sydney teenager charged with offensive behaviour and sexual touching without consent in relation to incidents involving females aged 13 to 54. Get our breaking news email , free…
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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…
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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…
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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
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
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’
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
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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Plover, not a fighter: protected bird 12th man on Tasmanian cricket ground as staff mow around nest
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…
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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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