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José Luis Ábalos, once a minister in the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, was convicted of bribery. The decision compounds a crisis for Mr. Sánchez’ circle.
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PM’s demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorateHistorians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of Keir Starmer that will most perplex the political analysts of the future.They will ponder a man who won a landslide victory in July 2024 only to be pushed out less than two years later, having started no illegal wars, having tri
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Unidentified man fell into vault toilet at Camp Edison while trying to retrieve sunglasses he dropped, officials sayAn unhappy camper spent about 15 minutes submerged in sewage in the putrid tank of a California campground’s vault toilet after falling in trying to retrieve sunglasses he dropped, according to officials.The latest entry into the annals of bizarre US campground mishaps took place on Saturday at Shaver Lake’s Camp Edison, about 50 miles north-east of downtown Fresno. A spokesperson
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The city's main liquified natural gas (LNG) processing site suffered a "technical accident" in the Ras Laffan industrial zone.
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Ursula von der Leyen, Merz and Zelenskyy say UK PM helped increase European and Ukrainian securityEuropean leaders have paid tribute to Keir Starmer after he announced his resignation as prime minister, triggering the postponement of an upcoming EU-UK summit.The European Council president, António Costa, said “for sure we need to postpone it, but we are reassessing the opportunity to hold this new summit”. Continue reading...
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The city's main liquified natural gas (LNG) processing site suffered a "technical accident" in the Ras Laffan industrial zone.
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Try a selection of questions from the notoriously difficult “Gaokao” university entrance exam.
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Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, appeared to maintain a tense cease-fire for a second day. Israel’s military has new orders that restrict troops to defensive actions.
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To pressure Moscow, Ukraine is stepping up an air campaign to isolate the peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
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Rob Jetten’s acknowledgment of the historical injustice is part of a larger reckoning with the Netherlands’ colonial past.
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In a sharp reversal of American policy, the Treasury announced a 60-day reprieve, permitting the sale of Iranian crude as part of the preliminary U.S.-Iran deal toward ending the war.
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The US vice-president says a great deal of progress has been made after the first round of talks between the US and Iran.
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Activists said more action was needed to solve the larger problem: Only 12 percent of Pakistani women and girls use safe, commercially made menstrual products.
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Alberto Carvalho put on leave after news of warrants but officials have not provided details of nature of investigationThe superintendent of Los Angeles public schools has resigned five months after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the LA Unified school district headquarters.Alberto Carvalho had been put on leave after news of the federal investigation. He denied any wrongdoing earlier this year and had asked to be reinstated as head of the nation’s second-largest district. Continu
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The years since the Brexit vote have been some of the most tumultuous in Britain’s recent political history. Here’s a look at the revolving door in Downing Street.
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Accident was resolved fairly quickly and authorities said the bees were being transferred to local beekeepersTwo million bees escaped after a truck transporting their hives overturned and released the insects in Texas on Sunday.The accident happened near the town of Mauriceville in the east of the state, perhaps not surprisingly causing local emergency officials to warn residents near the mishap to stay indoors. Continue reading...
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The prohibition is intended to boost the country's economy by refining gold domestically.
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Former DUP leader led a double life championing conservative values while inflicting sexual harm on two schoolgirlsWhile Joe Biden feted Jeffrey Donaldson at the White House during St Patrick’s Day celebrations in March 2024 a handful of detectives back home in Northern Ireland were quietly completing the countdown to his unmasking.Weeks earlier Donaldson had steered the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) back to power-sharing at Stormont, a political feat that rebooted the Good Friday agreement an
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The vice president said Iran’s invite to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency was a “major milestone.”
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Texas man using ‘automated driving assistance system’ crashed into house and Connecticut man drove into pool while trying to parkSeparate crashes in Texas and Connecticut involving Tesla electric vehicles left a woman dead when a car barreled into a house; and a driver rescued after plunging into a municipal swimming pool.A doorbell video camera captured the Friday night episode in Katy, Texas. Authorities said 76-year-old Martha Avila Mantilla was standing in the front room of a relative’s home