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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 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

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  • 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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  • NewsStoryful

    Blaze Rages at Lincoln Memorial Kiosk

    One person was hospitalised with serious non-life-threatening injuries following a fire involving a propane tank at a kiosk near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Thursday, March 28, DC Fire and EMS said.Footage by Jeanne McVey shows the kiosk consumed by flames.The fire service initially reported the blaze as a one-alarm fire, and said an adult male was taken to hospital with serious non life threatening injuries.The cause of the fire was not known. Credit: Jeanne McVey/@RiverGirl707 via St

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  • NewsReuters

    Secret planting operation boosts critically endangered Welsh shrub

    At a secret location in the Welsh countryside, naturalists have planted 30 young specimens of a once-common plant that has been collected - and nibbled - almost to extinction. Cotoneaster Cambricus, Welsh Cotoneaster, only grows on wild and windy cliffs in North Wales. But decades of painstaking conservation efforts have boosted that number to around 110, helped by the latest planting of specimens cultivated at nearby Chester Zoo.

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