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Musk offers voters $1M to sign PAC petition backing the Constitution
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla and Space X and owner of X who’s gone all-in on Republican Donald…
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Spain
Spanish airport under consideration for new migrant arrival centre
Spain is exploring the possibility of using a private airport as an emergency migrant reception centre as EU leaders debate…
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US bans new types of goods from China over allegations of forced labor
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it would ban the import of goods from a Chinese…
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Georgia attorney general appeals a judge’s rollback of abortion ban
ATLANTA — Georgia’s Republican attorney general has appealed a judge’s ruling that struck down the state’s abortion ban. Attorney General…
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Top Brazilian judge orders suspension of X platform in Brazil amid feud with Musk
SAO PAULO — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of Elon Musk’s social media giant X…
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Asia
UN calls out China’s ongoing ‘problematic’ policies in Xinjiang
GENEVA: The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday (Aug 27) “problematic” policies persist in China, two years on…
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Mexico
Mexican detained in Qatar for sexual orientation is released
Manuel Guerrero Aviña, a 44-year-old Mexican-British national, has left Qatar permanently after a harrowing six-month detention that highlighted the severe…
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Asia
‘A new era of slaves’: Thailand’s plan to loosen fisheries laws renews fears of illegal fishing, forced labour
The laws have made it much more difficult for commercial fishers to enter inshore exclusion and marine protected areas, which…
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Takeaways from the Swiss women’s climate victory
LONDON: The European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of more than 2,000 Swiss women on Tuesday (Apr 9),…
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Asia
Myanmar junta slams UN’s ‘one-sided’ human rights claims
That resolution “included unfounded and one-sided allegations”, the junta’s foreign affairs ministry said in a statement published in the Global…
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