Travellers 'sleeping on floor and missing medication' amid Dubai airport chaos
Donald Trump trial: Man sets himself on fire outside court
Man arrested over alleged Russian plot to assassinate Zelenskyy
What we know so far about Israel's strike on Iran
UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant
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Elon Musk and X to fight Australian eSafety order to remove content relating to Sydney stabbing
Company says it complied with directive over posts about stabbing of Sydney bishop but will challenge ‘unlawful and dangerous approach’ in court
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Second Ecuadoran mayor killed ahead of anti-crime referendum: police
The mayor of a mining town in violence-riddled Ecuador was shot dead Friday, the second such killing in days ahead of a weekend referendum on tougher measures against organized crime, police said.Two days before his killing, the mayor of Camilo Ponce Enriquez in the southern province of Azuay, Jose Sanchez, was shot dead.
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US agrees to pull troops from key drone host Niger: officials
The United States agreed Friday to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops from Niger, officials said, upending its posture in West Africa where the country was home to a major drone base.They agreed that a US delegation would head within days to the capital Niamey to arrange an orderly withdrawal, the officials said.
3-min read - TechnologyAFP
'Harvesting data': Latin American AI startups transform farming
For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns.Understanding how water moves, how wind moves, how different solar exposures operate throughout your farmland," he said at Web Summit, of which AFP is a media partner this year.
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Iran-allied militia claims air strike hit base in Iraq
One person was killed and several others were wounded in an explosion at a military base in Iraq on Friday night that was reported to have been caused by an air strike.
2-min read - PoliticsThe Independent
Trump campaign falsely claimed twice this week that he’s ‘stormed’ out of court
A reporter from The Indpendent, who has been observing proceedings all week, says claims of the former president’s defiant exit on Friday were not entirely accurate
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Iran's foreign minister downplays drone attack, says Tehran investigating
Iran's foreign minister on Friday said Tehran was investigating an overnight attack on Iran, adding that so far a link to Israel had not been proven as he downplayed the strike. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told NBC News the drones took off from inside Iran and flew for a few hundred meters before being downed. "It has not been proved to us that there is a connection between these and Israel," he said, adding that Iran was investigating the matter but that media reports wer
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