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#BBCNews - The TikTokers accused of triggering an election scandal
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Romanian elections: TikTokers and an election scandal
The BBC speaks to Romanian influencers, implicated in the unprecedented cancellation of an EU election
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Life inside Iraq's 'Forbidden Zone' controlled by Turkey
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This report by @simonafoltyn.bsky.social complements well our current #TheGlobalJigsaw series on the Kurds, last part dropping on Thursday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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Turkey-PKK conflict: Life inside Iraq's 'Forbidden Zone'
Turkey has been building military bases on Iraqi territory, the BBC finds, raising fears of an occupation.
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#BBCNews - UK government not taking climate seriously - advisers
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Government not taking climate threats seriously - watchdog
The government has made little progress in preparing the UK for rising temperatures, climate watchdog the CCC says.
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#BBCNews - Pakistan claims 'credible intelligence' India is planning an imminent military strike
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Pakistan claims 'credible intelligence' India is planning an imminent military strike
India has accused Pakistan of supporting militants behind an attack in Kashmir that killed 26 tourists.
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The discovery of concert video in which the band Kneecap shouted "the only good Tory is a dead Tory" and advised the audience to "kill your local MP" shocked the political establishment, with counter-terrorism police reviewing the footage. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ukraine journalist who died in Russian captivity was tortured and had her organs removed www.cbsnews.com/news/viktori...
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Ukraine journalist who died in Russian captivity was tortured and had her organs removed, joint media report says
Russia returned Vicktoriia Roshchyna's emaciated body with signs of torture and some organs removed, possibly to hide further traces of torture, the report said.
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“He's a born fighter. Josh Gottheimer's been fighting for people all his life," a narrator says as images of a young Gottheimer wearing boxing gloves play on screen and as a disclaimer reads, "AI Generated Imagery."
Pretty tough to call yourself a born fighter when the boxing images are fake
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Josh Gottheimer uses AI in anti-Trump ad for the New Jersey governor's race
The first TV ad of Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer's campaign for governor uses artificial intelligence to portray him as a boxer fighting Trump.
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Trump gets an ‘F’ on his first 100 days from plurality of Americans, poll finds
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Trump gets an 'F' on his first 100 days from plurality of Americans, poll finds
As President Donald Trump celebrates his first 100 days in office, a new PBS News/NPR/Marist poll finds that a plurality of Americans give him a failing grade.
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I’m sorry Andrew Cuomo did what now? This is a man who enabled Republicans to control the state Senate for years—thereby blocking the protection of abortion in state law—by blessing the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) that caucused with the GOP
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(Yonhap) - Prosecutors raided the residence of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol as part of its investigation into various suspicions over relations between his family and a controversial shaman. en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250430003800315
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I asked top media execs to share their unfiltered, anonymous takeaways from Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. Here's what one told me. Read the rest in @status.news: www.status.news/p/donald-tru...
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No mention in this piece of Trump criticizing Whitmer in 2020 — for failing to properly thank him after officials charged 13 men with her attempted kidnapping.
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Whitmer claims ‘BFD’ victory for Michigan after appearing on stage with Trump
If she could do her Oval Office visit over, Whitmer said, “I wouldn’t have put my folder in front of my face.”
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Someone just flagged this to me. Top of my reading list tonight. Probably the most in the open example of presidential corruption in US history. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
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Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
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Even though legal experts say that his suit is baseless and an easy victory for CBS, the board of Paramount has approved settlement terms ahead of mediation tomorrow between CBS and President Trump.
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Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
Paramount’s interest in settling has dismayed CBS’s news division. The executive producer of “60 Minutes” abruptly resigned last week.
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Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...
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Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum
“Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized,” Mr. Emhoff said in reaction to the removal of him and senior Biden White House officials from the board that oversees the museum.
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Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
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The Last Hospitals in Gaza
In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.
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WaPo - US judge hands Radio Free Europe key court win, defends courts from attack. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/04/29/radio-free-europe-funding-trump-court/
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Trump pick for key prosecutor post dodges Senate questions on Jan. 6, criticism of GOP members
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Trump pick for key prosecutor post dodges Senate questions on Jan. 6, criticism of GOP members
Ed Martin distanced himself from a Jan. 6 defendant he gave an award to and whom a Trump-appointed judge described as someone with “sexist, racist, and antisemitic” views.
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Starting to agree.
"Once the history of this weird period we’re navigating gets to be written, Jeff Bezos’s decision, as owner of the Washington Post, to stop the newspaper’s editorial pages from endorsing Kamala Harris will be seen as the move that changed everything." www.cjr.org/the_media_to...
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How Foreign Journalists See Trump’s First Hundred Days with the Press
Five impressions of a US press in crisis.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is greeted by Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, as he arrives at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Michigan.
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The U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun assisting Trump's 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show
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#BBCNews - Gaza medic detained during deadly Israeli attack released, Red Crescent says
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Gaza medic detained during deadly Israeli attack released, Red Crescent says
Assad al-Nassasra was missing for weeks following last month's attack, in which 15 emergency workers were killed by Israeli troops.
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