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  • NewsThe Guardian

    Starmer says he cannot ‘turn the taps on’ to fix council funding crisis

    Labour leader was asked how party would plug £4bn gap at launch of its local election campaign in West Midlands

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  • NewsFrance 24

    France's parliament condemns 1961 police massacre of Algerians in Paris

    The French parliament's lower house on Thursday approved a resolution condemning as "bloody and murderous repression" the killing by Paris police of dozens of Algerians in a crackdown on a 1961 protest to support Algerian independence. In recent years France has made a series of efforts to come to terms with its colonial past in Algeria.Dozens of peaceful demonstrators died during a crackdown by Paris police on a protest by Algerians in 1961. The scale of the massacre was covered up for decades

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  • NewsThe Argus

    Drug driver who caused serious crash said she 'fell asleep at wheel'

    A drug-driver lost control of her car and caused a serious head-on crash with a taxi in Bognor Regis.

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  • NewsThe National

    Holyrood chaos as Humza Yousaf accuses Anas Sarwar of 'arrogance and hubris'

    THE Presiding Officer was forced to intervene in a fiery clash between Humza Yousaf and Anas Sarwar ...

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  • BusinessCover Media

    Nintendo confirm contractor layoffs

    Eurogamer report that amid claims of a lull in testing before the arrival of the much anticipated Switch 2 console it was reported that 120 contractor testing roles have been closed down, with an unspecified number being made into full time roles. This ‘massive downsizing’ news was reported by Kotaku, who have had word from several current and former contractors at the Washington-based games and hardware testing team of Nintendo. Nintendo themselves have since confirmed to Kotaku that is has reo

  • NewsRFI

    French PM vows to reform benefits, reduce deficit and test four-day week

    French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has unveiled plans to overhaul unemployment benefits, while promising to reduce France's spiralling deficit. The government will also test out a four-day working week. Speaking Wednesday on TF1 television, Gabriel Attal announced the need for a reform of unemployment payments to make up for the deficit that spiralled out of control last year.The 35-year-old prime minister said he had asked Labour Minister Catherine Vautrin to prepare "new negotiations" with so

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Watch live as disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced for fraud

    The former billionaire entrepreneur who founded the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company FTX, will appear in a Manhattan federal court to be sentenced on several fraud and conspiracy charges. Just four months ago, a jury determined that Bankman-Fried, 32, had lied to FTX investors, lenders and customers and used their money to build himself up as the “King of Crypto”. Federal prosecutors have asked Judge Kaplan to sentence him to between 40 and 50 years. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers meanwhile have p

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