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● Pope Leo XIV thanks wellwishers in first event after cancer surgery ● US condemns 'despicable' Israeli settler attack that seriously injured American photographer ● Macron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after days of unrest and 2,000 arrests across France ● Bodies of four family members killed in Ireland house fire arrive at church before funeral ● Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold ● Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers​ ● The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time preview – Link faces his scariest challenge yet: the 4K era ● Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections, calling him 'great warrior prime minister' ● Guardian reporter filmed masked militants seconds before West Bank attack on French mayor ● Wright calls Trump's diesel deal a peace incentive. Rubio says Russia would sell anyway. ● France's Macron vows to hold accountable those who 'sought to bring down the Republic' ● Trump says DC golf course ‘restoration’ to start despite judge’s order to pause plans ● Trump once questioned Obama's citizenship. Now Obama is speaking out for Ilhan Omar. ● Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations ● Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms ● Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space ● Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation ● Severe drought declared and hosepipe bans in force - is your area affected? ● UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains ● Photos: Antigovernment protesters clash with police in Albania’s capital ● Pope Leo XIV thanks wellwishers in first event after cancer surgery ● US condemns 'despicable' Israeli settler attack that seriously injured American photographer ● Macron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after days of unrest and 2,000 arrests across France ● Bodies of four family members killed in Ireland house fire arrive at church before funeral ● Zelenskyy urges support for new US sanctions on Russia after Trump puts them on hold ● Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers​ ● The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time preview – Link faces his scariest challenge yet: the 4K era ● Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections, calling him 'great warrior prime minister' ● Guardian reporter filmed masked militants seconds before West Bank attack on French mayor ● Wright calls Trump's diesel deal a peace incentive. Rubio says Russia would sell anyway. ● France's Macron vows to hold accountable those who 'sought to bring down the Republic' ● Trump says DC golf course ‘restoration’ to start despite judge’s order to pause plans ● Trump once questioned Obama's citizenship. Now Obama is speaking out for Ilhan Omar. ● Bank of America hit with $1.2 billion penalty over money laundering allegations ● Brazilian Amazon deforestation falls to lowest on record as pivotal vote looms ● Inside the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos for control of outer space ● Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation ● Severe drought declared and hosepipe bans in force - is your area affected? ● UAE agrees with Saudi Arabia to re-enter Yemen conflict amid Houthi gains ● Photos: Antigovernment protesters clash with police in Albania’s capital
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Pope Leo XIV thanks wellwishers in first event after cancer surgery

The Pope's first event since his lung cancer diagnosis and surgery saw him recite the traditional Angelus prayer from the balcony of the Apostolic Palace
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Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers​✓

Mexican judge sentences three men to 158 years in prison for murders of Australian and US surfers​

Australian ​brothers Jake ​and Callum Robinson, and ​their ‌American friend Carter Rhoad, were killed while on a surf trip in Baja California in 2024. Get our breaking news email…
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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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Trump endorses Netanyahu ahead of Israeli elections, calling him 'great warrior prime minister'

Donald Trump has endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli elections later this month, calling him a "great warrior prime minister"
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Guardian reporter filmed masked militants seconds before West Bank attack on French mayor✓

Guardian reporter filmed masked militants seconds before West Bank attack on French mayor

New video footage of Israeli settler assault on European delegation as Netanyahu attempts to raise doubt. Hours after Israeli militants attacked a delegation of European…
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Wright calls Trump's diesel deal a peace incentive. Rubio says Russia would sell anyway.

President Trump's top aides offered sharply different explanations this weekend of his Russian diesel deal amid a barrage of bipartisan criticism calling the move a gift to…
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France's Macron vows to hold accountable those who 'sought to bring down the Republic'✓

France's Macron vows to hold accountable those who 'sought to bring down the Republic'

Police arrested at least 1,800 people across France after violent groups clashed with officers and looted shops during nationwide demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands of…
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Trump says DC golf course ‘restoration’ to start despite judge’s order to pause plans✓

Trump says DC golf course ‘restoration’ to start despite judge’s order to pause plans

Judge orders government to notify her by 8pm ET Sunday whether its position changed from Friday’s court filing. Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday that “restoration…
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Trump once questioned Obama's citizenship. Now Obama is speaking out for Ilhan Omar.

Former President Barack Obama issued a forceful denunciation of the Trump administration's legal pursuit of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar over suspicions she fraudulently obtained…
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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✓

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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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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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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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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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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Photos: Antigovernment protesters clash with police in Albania’s capital

Police crack down on sixth day of student-led demonstrations calling for Prime Minister Rama to resign
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Katie Zacharia leaving White House role less than five days into job✓

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✓

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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European diplomats attacked by Israeli settlers in West Bank✓

European diplomats attacked by Israeli settlers in West Bank

The Israeli military condemns the violence but the prime minister's office says it is part of a "smear" campaign
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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

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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

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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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Jordon Steele-John says ‘I’m not on leave’ and accuses Greens leader of making ‘bad call’ regarding complaints

Jordon Steele-John says ‘I’m not on leave’ and accuses Greens leader of making ‘bad call’ regarding complaints

Greens senator for WA says complaints regarding his behaviour towards women not about ‘accountability’ but rather ‘factionalism’. Get our breaking news email , free app or daily…
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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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Pope Leo XIV thanks wellwishers in first event after cancer surgery

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US condemns 'despicable' Israeli settler attack that seriously injured American photographer

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Macron criticises ‘unbridled violence’ after days of unrest and 2,000 arrests across France

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