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  • NewsThe Independent

    Julian Assange wins High Court bid to appeal against extradition to US over spying charges

    Crowds of supporters celebrated after judges granted the WikiLeaks founder persmission to challenge his extradition

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  • NewsFrance 24

    Iran’s new acting president Mohammad Mokhber, a veteran of the regime

    Iran's first Vice President Mohammad Mokhber was appointed acting president of the Islamic Republic on Monday after the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash. Mokhber, 68, has largely been in the shadows compared to other politicians in Iran's Shiite theocracy. Raisi's death Sunday thrust Mokhber into public view. He is expected to serve as caretaker president for some 50 days before mandatory presidential elections in Iran.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the announce

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Nursery nurse guilty of killing baby girl she found ‘too demanding’

    Kate Roughley was found guilty by a jury of the manslaughter of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan at Tiny Toes nursery in Cheadle Hulme in Stockport

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  • NewsSky News

    Russian theatre director and playwright go on trial in 'absurd' case over 2020 play

    A theatre director and a playwright have appeared in court accused of justifying terrorism with a play they first staged in Moscow back in 2020. The trial of Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk is the first high-profile case since Soviet times to be based on the contents of a theatre production. "It's absurd," Elena Efros, Zhenya's mother, told Sky News outside the military court in east Moscow.

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  • NewsThe Independent

    UK minister slams International Criminal Court seeking arrest warrants as ‘repugnant’

    The ICC sought arrest warrants for Israeli PM Netanyahu, his defence minister and three Hamas leaders

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Salman Rushdie says a new Palestinian state would be ‘Taliban-like’

    Author argues ‘it’s very strange for young, progressive student politics to kind of support a fascist terrorist group’ in Hamas

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  • TechnologyPA Media: Tech

    Microsoft makes its AI pitch with Copilot+ PCs

    The US tech giant has unveiled a Surface laptop and 2-in-1 tablet with its AI assistant built in, and central to, the device.

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