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Elon Musk gives away $1m cheques ahead of Wisconsin Supreme Court election
Getty Images Lawyers for Elon Musk argued that Wisconsin’s attorney general was curtailing his free speech in trying to block the cheque giveaway Billionaire Elon Musk has given away $1m (£770,000) cheques to voters in Wisconsin after the state supreme court refused to intervene. Musk announced the prize earlier this week, ahead of Wisconsin’s tightly…
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Red Cross outraged over killing of eight medics in Gaza
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” at the deaths of eight medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza. The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March, said the IFRC. Their bodies were retrieved on Sunday after access was…
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Agriculture is centre stage US-India trade showdown
AFP India’s journey from scarcity to surplus is a triumph of its agriculture sector Why won’t India buy even a single bushel of American corn? That’s the question US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick raised recently while criticising India’s trade policies, taking a swipe at its market restrictions. In another interview, Lutnick accused India of blocking…
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Secret filming reveals brazen tactics of visa sponsorship scammers
Tamasin Ford BBC Global Disinformation Unit and Africa Eye Undercover footage shows Dr Kelvin Alaneme explaining how he sells UK jobs to foreign nationals Recruitment agents who scam foreign nationals applying to work in the UK care sector have been exposed by BBC secret filming. One of the rogue agents is a Nigerian doctor who…
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Sky darkens over UK and abroad
The Moon obscured part of the Sun on Saturday, casting a dark shadow over cities across the world. The spectacle was visible in parts of North America, Europe, Africa, northern Asia, and small parts of South America, with views available everywhere in the UK. According to Nasa, it was not total anywhere in the world,…
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Donald Trump ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over ceasefire negotiations
Donald Trump has said he is “very angry” and “pissed off” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after weeks of attempting to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine. In an NBC News interview, the US president said he was angry with Putin for attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s credibility, and threatened to impose a 50% tariff on…
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Decision day in court for French presidential hopes
Hugh Schofield BBC News, Paris Reuters Marine Le Pen is awaiting a high-stakes verdict in a party funding trial France’s Marine Le Pen faces a make-or-break moment on Monday, as a judge rules on whether she should be banned from the next presidential election. The hard-right leader, who is ahead of all her rivals in…
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More survivors pulled from rubble as hundreds still missing
Reuters Rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed in Mandalay, Myanmar Four more people have been pulled from rubble nearly 60 hours after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar on Friday, killing at least 1,700 people in the south-east Asian country. The survivors were rescued from a collapsed school building in…
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Wounded Palestinians dying over lack of supplies, surgeon says
Sebastian Usher BBC Middle East analyst Dr Mark Perlmutter An image supplied by Dr Perlmutter shows medics operating on a wounded Palestinian in Gaza Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find distressing An American surgeon who’s been working in two Gaza hospitals for the past three weeks has said that wounded Palestinian…
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Rocket crashes back to Earth just moments after launch in Norway
A test rocket aimed at kickstarting European satellite launches has crashed back to Earth moments after taking flight. The unmanned Spectrum rocket, which took off from a Norwegian spaceport on Sunday, was billed as the first attempt at an orbital flight to come from Europe. German start-up Isar Aerospace developed the rocket and had warned…
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