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Senate fails to reopen government after fifth budget vote
Watch: Trump claims shutdown “negotiation” underway as Jeffries says Republicans “silent” The Senate on Monday failed for a fifth time to pass spending measures reopening the government. Competing proposals by Democrats and Republicans were both shot down, failing to meet the 60-vote threshold required. President Donald Trump said earlier in the day that another failed…
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Gaza peace plan talks to continue as Trump says chance of a deal is ‘really good’
Rushdi AbualoufGaza correspondent and Kathryn Armstrong EPA Reuters Israel has been carrying out an offensive in Gaza City for weeks Indirect talks aimed at reaching a final agreement on a US peace plan to end the war in Gaza are set to continue on Tuesday in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh. Palestinian and Egyptian…
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Hostage Tamir Nimrodi’s mother says his fate unknown as she waits for Trump’s peace plan
Alice CuddyBBC News, Tel Aviv BBC Herut Nimrodi says she is clinging to hope that her son Tamir is “still hanging on” two years after his abduction The mother of an Israeli man taken by Hamas on 7 October 2023 says she still does not know if her son is dead or alive, but has…
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Death toll from Indonesia school collapse rises to 54
The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia has risen to 54, authorities said, with rescuers still searching for more than a dozen missing people. Hundreds of students, most of them teenage boys, had gathered for prayers at the Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in East Java when it collapsed last Monday…
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Rescuers race to reach stranded hikers
Rescue workers were mobilised to help hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at tourist campsites on the eastern face of Mount Everest in Tibet, according to Chinese state media. About 350 hikers have been led to safety, and rescuers have been in contact with another 200 people, Chinese state media reported. Heavy snowfall that…
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Australian prosecutors appeal mushroom murderer’s ‘inadequate’ sentence
Simon AtkinsonSydney and Tiffany Wertheimer Reuters Erin Patterson will be in her 80s when she becomes eligible for parole under her current sentence Prosecutors in Australia have filed an appeal against the sentence of mushroom murderer Erin Patterson, saying it was “manifestly inadequate”. Last month Patterson, 51, was jailed for life with no chance of…
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Shoe thrown at India’s top judge in religious row
An Indian lawyer has thrown a shoe at the country’s Chief Justice BR Gavai after apparently being angered by remarks the judge made about Hinduism. Rakesh Kishore launched his attack during Monday’s court proceedings in Delhi in what is seen across India as a serious public insult and security breach. Three lawyers present in the…
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Eswatini accepts 10 deportees from the US despite legal challenge
The US has deported 10 people to Eswatini despite rights groups in the southern African state mounting legal action to block the plan. This is the second batch of deportees that the Trump administration has sent to Eswatini as part of its hard-line approach towards immigration. The 10 have been “securely accommodated”, and posed no…
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Trump and Brazilian President Lula have ‘friendly’ call
President Donald Trump and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have had a call described by both sides as friendly and positive as Brazil seeks to reduce a 50% US tariff on imports. In Monday’s video chat, Lula asked Trump to remove most of the duties. Trump said on social media they had…
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Ex-New York Times writer Bari Weiss to lead CBS after Paramount deal
Getty Images Paramount has named former New York Times opinion writer Bari Weiss to lead CBS News, in the latest move by new owners to reshape operations of one of America’s leading news organisations. Paramount is also buying The Free Press, the digital outlet Weiss started after her acrimonious departure from the New York Times,…
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