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• Kevin Costner helps with Hurricane Milton, Helene relief efforts as he relates to 'seasons of darkness'

  11-10-2024 23:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Kevin Costner is giving back. The "Yellowstone" actor, along with his band Modern West, released his first song in more than four years to support victims of hurricanes Helene and Milton with music."I’ve gone through seasons of darkness where I clung to the lyrics of songs that really carried me through. I hope that ‘Find Your Way’ provides that kind of refuge for anyone trudging through and losing sight of hope," Costner wrote on Instagram. MORGAN WALLEN DONATES TO H
  
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• Nick Saban on Tua Tagovailoa's potential retirement after repeated brain injuries: 'I hate it'

  11-10-2024 23:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa's NFL future remains uncertain after he sustained his third concussion in three years in Week 2. Tagovailoa was placed on injured reserve Sept. 17 after he did not clear the NFL's concussion protocols. Pro athlete peers and media pundits have called on Tagovailoa to retire for the sake of his health and life.Now, his college coach has given insight into his discussions with the quarterback over his NFL future. Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban sp
  
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• Feedback loop: the tangled ties between the US election and the Middle East war

  11-10-2024 23:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu has humiliated Biden’s America and seems to anticipate Trump’s return, but what would that mean for Israel?The year since the 7 October attack has demonstrated just how densely intertwined US presidential politics is with the trajectory of events in the Middle East. Each exerts a gravitational pull on the other, often in ways that are damaging for both.Foreign policy rarely matters much in US presidential elections, but this year could be an exception. In a contest
  
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• Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs as losses deepen during factory strike

  11-10-2024 22:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Boeing will cut 10% of its workforce, or about 17,000 people, as the company’s losses mount and a machinist strike that has idled its aircraft factories enters its fifth week.
  
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• Wealthy millennials and Gen Z are redefining philanthropy

  11-10-2024 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  Wealthy millennials and Gen Zers are redefining the world of charitable giving, seeing themselves more as activists than donors, according to a new study.
  
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• Social Security payroll tax limit increases for 2025. Here's how that may affect you.

  11-10-2024 22:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  In 2025, millions of retired Americans will see a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment for benefit payments, according to the Social Security Administration.
  
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• Due to security concerns, Trump likely won't golf again until after election: Sources

  11-10-2024 22:31
  
  Due to security concerns following the recent apparent assassination attempt, former President Trump is unlikely to play golf again until after the election, sources say.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers oppose effort to combine two sex crimes cases

  11-10-2024 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys have submitted a filing opposing a move by prosecutors to combine two sexual crimes cases against the disgraced film mogul.
  
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• The Federal Reserve may have pretty much just hit its 2% inflation target

  11-10-2024 22:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  This week’s inflation data provided more evidence that the Federal Reserve is nearing its objective, fresh on the heels of the central bank’s dramatic interest rate cut just a few weeks ago.
  
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• Dow jumps 400 points to a record on Friday, S&P 500 closes above 5,800 for the first time

  11-10-2024 22:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average powered to new highs on Friday and capped off a winning week as banking behemoths ushered in a promising start to the third-quarter earnings season.
  
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• Biden to visit Florida storm damage, says misinformation spreaders will 'pay a price'

  11-10-2024 22:19
  
  President Biden said he believes they're "breaking through with the truth" on the federal hurricane response but continued to slam Donald Trump for misinformation.
  
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• Bath & Body Works apologizes for candle that shoppers say resembles a KKK hood

  11-10-2024 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bath & Body Works apologized for a candle promoted on social media that featured a snowflake resembling a Ku Klux Klan hood, sparking controversy.
  
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• Jay-Z's lawyers gave 'legal ultimatum' to Piers Morgan after guest made Sean 'Diddy' Combs comparison

  11-10-2024 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  
  A lawyer for Jay-Z said a “legal ultimatum” to talk show host Piers Morgan was necessary and prompted him to take the unusual step of editing out allegations about the rapper and his wife Beyoncé.
  
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• Two Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli airstrike hours after UN peacekeepers HQ fired on

  11-10-2024 21:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Two incidents in Lebanon prompt growing concern over Israel’s escalating campaign and the spreading Middle East conflictAn Israeli airstrike has killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three others, hours after the Israeli military fired on the headquarters of a UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon for the second time in as many days.The two incidents on Friday prompted further concern over Israel’s escalating campaign, amid waves of heavy airstrikes across Lebanon. Lebanon’s ar
  
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• Lamorne Morris grew up idolizing the first Black 'SNL' star. Now, he's playing him in a movie.

  11-10-2024 20:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fresh off an Emmy win, Lamorne Morris talks about playing one of his comedy idols — who happens to share his last name — in a new film about "Saturday Night Live."
  
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• Latino voters share diverse priorities they want Harris, Trump to address

  11-10-2024 20:56
  
  Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are working to appeal to Latino voters in battleground states, whether they live near the border or in the Rust Belt.
  
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• Mount Everest remains believed to be climber who vanished 100 years ago

  11-10-2024 20:10 via foxnews.com
  
  A National Geographic documentary team has found on Mount Everest what they believe is the partial remains of a British climber who vanished 100 years ago during a quest to become among the first to summit the world’s tallest mountain. The organization announced Friday that the expedition found a foot encased in a sock embroidered with "AC Irvine" and a boot that could be that of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared at the age of 22 along with his co-climber, the legendary
  
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• MrBeast: The King of YouTube?

  11-10-2024 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  As the world's biggest YouTuber faces controversy, will his empire crumble?
  
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• This Pennsylvania House race could predict who wins the presidency

  11-10-2024 19:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  The race between Democratic Rep. Susan Wild and Republican state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in Pennsylvania could determine who wins the House and the presidency.
  
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• Biden tells Trump 'get a life' over hurricane misinformation

  11-10-2024 18:16
  
  President Joe Biden delivered another sharp rebuke of Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about the federal hurricane response.
  
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• Voters question Harris' pitch as agent of change: POLL

  11-10-2024 17:35
  
  Kamala Harris' positioning as a change agent is running into headwinds from her role in the unpopular Biden administration, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll found.
  
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• Johnson stumps for state representative running for Congress in Pennsylvania

  11-10-2024 17:20 via nbcnews.com
  Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., spoke at an event for state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie in Pennsylvania. The House speaker has been traveling to several states to voice his support for Republicans running for Congress in 2024.
  
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• Harris campaign launches effort to turn out Black churchgoers as Election Day nears

  11-10-2024 17:02
  
  Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is launching its "Souls to the Polls" effort this weekend to turn out Black churchgoers in battleground states.
  
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• Walz weighs in on Biden's term when pressed on 'GMA'

  11-10-2024 16:54
  
  Tim Walz said that he wasn’t sure anyone does “everything right” but that President Joe Biden has “done everything in the best interests of the American public."
  
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• Iran warns its neighbors not to help Israel attack

  11-10-2024 16:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bracing itself for a retaliatory strike for the ballistic missile attack, Iran has been urging its Arab neighbors not to allow Israel to use their airspace.
  
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• WATCH: Long-lost Mt. Everest climber may have been found

  11-10-2024 16:43
  
  National Geographic has the story of the potential discovery of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared attempting to climb Everest in 1924.
  
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• EU unable to retrieve €150m paid to Tunisia despite links to rights violations

  11-10-2024 16:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Concerns are growing that funds from the migration deal are connected to abuses by the repressive regime in TunisThe EU will be unable to claw back any of the €150m (£125m) paid to Tunisia despite the money being increasingly linked to human rights violations, including allegations that sums went to security forces who raped migrant women.The European Commission paid the amount to the Tunis government in a controversial migration and development deal, despite concerns that the north A
  
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• Archaeologists unearth well-preserved 4,000-year-old Egyptian tomb

  11-10-2024 14:25 via foxnews.com
  
  While excavating the tomb of Jifai-Hapi, who governed the Asyut region during Egypt's Middle Kingdom, archaeologists discovered the tomb of the ancient governor's daughter, "Edi." The find was announced by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in an in an Oct. 2, 2024, Facebook post. Jifai-Hapi (also spelled Djefaihapi), was governor during the reign of King Senusret I. His burial chamber was the largest cemetery belonging to a non-royal of the time, signaling that he was an important rul
  
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• Iran's national airliner accused of flying weapons to Beirut airport for terror proxy Hezbollah: Report

  11-10-2024 14:17 via foxnews.com
  
  An explosive report from the Iranian dissident group the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) alleges that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s domestic airline, Iran Air, is providing support to the U.S. designated terror organization Hezbollah.Citing a former Hezbollah member, the MEK said that flights between Iran and Beirut Airport in Lebanon often transferred Hezbollah personnel to Iran for training courses and "smuggle[d] food [and] light and medium weapons" into Lebano
  
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• Cameroon bans discussing president’s health as absence fuels speculation

  11-10-2024 14:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Health of Paul Biya, 91, declared matter of national security and any debate prohibited after denial that he has diedCameroonian authorities have banned discussions about the health of the president, Paul Biya, after the latest round of speculation about his prolonged failure to appear in public.In a 9 October letter to regional governors, the interior minister, Paul Atanga Nji, said discussing the 91-year-old president’s health was a matter of national security and “any debate in th
  
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• Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century

  11-10-2024 13:32 via theguardian.com
  
  More than year’s worth of rain fell in two days in south-east Morocco, filling up lake that had been dry for decadesDramatic pictures have emerged of the first floods in the Sahara in half a century.Two days of rainfall in September exceeded yearly averages in several areas of south-east Morocco and caused a deluge, officials of the country’s meteorology agency said in early October. In Tagounite, a village about 450km(280 miles) south of the capital, Rabat, more than 100mm (3.9 inch
  
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• Gender of female captain not to blame for sinking of $61M navy ship: New Zealand defense minister

  11-10-2024 13:28 via foxnews.com
  
  New Zealand's Defense Minister has clapped back at claims that the appointment of a female to captain a $61 million navy ship ultimately led to its sinking. The navy's specialist dive and hydrographic vessel, The Manawanui, sank on Sunday on a reef off the coast of Samoa that it was surveying. Its 75 crew and passengers were ordered to abandon the vessel on life rafts and were later rescued. The sinking marked New Zealand’s first ship lost since World War II and an investiga
  
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• Why Oregon vs. Ohio State marks the start of college football's super-conference era

  11-10-2024 13:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The matchup of top-four teams in the same conference was unthinkable in past seasons.
  
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• Jenrick suggests he regrets removing Disney murals from asylum-seeker centre

  11-10-2024 12:14 via theguardian.com
  Conservative leadership candidate is asked about incident where cartoons were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone childrenThe Conservative leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick has suggested he regrets ordering cartoon characters to be removed from the walls of a children’s asylum-seeker centre.Asked about the incident on LBC, Jenrick initially defended the action, saying he was “very worried at the time and continue to be” about adults coming to the country illegally
  
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• Hurricane Milton live: Harris accuses Trump of ‘playing politics’ with hurricane comments

  11-10-2024 12:13 via theguardian.com
  Harris and the White House criticise Donald Trump for his attacks on the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and MiltonTell us: how have you been affected by Hurricane Milton?Hurricane Milton made landfall as a category 3 hurricane on Wednesday night at around 8.30pm near Siesta Key in Florida. For about eight hours, the storm brought intense rainfall, flooding, tornadoes, storm surge and strong winds before moving off over the ocean just north of Cape Canaveral as a category 1 hurricane.Our v
  
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• Middle East crisis live: call for UN inquiry after fresh Israeli attack on peacekeepers in Lebanon

  11-10-2024 12:07 via theguardian.com
  Human Rights Watch says urgent investigation needed after UN peacekeepers injured in third attack in three daysIsrael’s Magen David Adom has reported that one person has been killed and another wounded at a kibbutz in northern Israel by anti-tank fire from Lebanon.Israel’s emergency services said the person killed was a 27-year-old Thai national working at kibbutz Yiron. Continue reading...
  
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• First Thing: Death toll climbs as Florida grieves Hurricane Milton’s destruction

  11-10-2024 12:04 via theguardian.com
  At least 10 people have died. Plus, a deadly day of Israeli strikes in Gaza and LebanonGood morning.The death toll from Hurricane Milton climbed to at least 10 on Thursday as Florida continued to assess the damage from the category 3 storm that caused extensive property damage across the state and left more than 3.5m homes and businesses without power.How bad was the storm surge? Although the powerful storm surge authorities predicted before Milton’s arrival was not as bad as projected, in
  
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• Nobel peace prize 2024: Japanese atomic bomb survivor movement Nihon Hidankyo wins award – as it happened

  11-10-2024 12:03 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed, you can read our full report on this story hereThe Norwegian Nobel committee said that in awarding the 2024 Peace Prize to Nihon Hidankyo, it:wishes to honour all atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace. They help us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable, and to somehow grasp the incomprehensible pain
  
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• Nobel peace prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group

  11-10-2024 12:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’Nobel peace prize 2024 – latest updatesSurvivors of the atomic bombings of Japan almost eight decades ago have won the Nobel peace prize for their campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons.The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations – commonly known as Hidankyo – received the accolade one year before the 80th anniversary of the bombings o
  
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• The Middle East and the US election: how they could affect each other

  11-10-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Benjamin Netanyahu has humiliated Biden’s America and seems to anticipate Trump’s return, but would that be so good for Israel?The year since the 7 October attack has demonstrated just how densely intertwined US presidential politics is with the trajectory of events in the Middle East. Each exerts a gravitational pull on the other, often in ways that are damaging for both.Foreign policy rarely matters much in US presidential elections, but this year could be an exception. In a contes
  
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• ‘It’s mindblowing’: US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge

  11-10-2024 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow RepublicansMeteorologists tracking the advance of Hurricane Milton have been targeted by a deluge of conspiracy theories that they were controlling the weather, abuse and even death threats, amid what they say is an unprecedented surge in misinformation as two major hurricanes have hit the US.A series of falsehoods and threats have swirled in the two weeks since Hurricane Helene tore through six states caus
  
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• Police ‘saved woman’s life’ after arm severed in dog attack in north Queensland

  11-10-2024 11:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Officers applied a tourniquet to the woman after the incident in Townsville involving an ‘aggressive’ animal which was then euthanisedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPolice in Queensland have been credited with saving a woman’s life after her arm was severed by her own dog.Officers applied a tourniquet after finding the woman, in her 30s, bleeding heavily outside her home in Townsville on Friday mo
  
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• Jenrick denies privately telling Tory MPs he would pivot back to centre if he became leader – UK politics live

  11-10-2024 11:36 via theguardian.com
  Tory leadership also suggests it was a mistake for him to order murals at a children’s asylum centre to be painted overRobert Jenrick has suggests it was a mistake for him to order murals of cartoon characters at a children’s asylum centre to be painted over when he was immigration minister.Only last week, at Tory conference, Jenrick was defending the decision, which at the time led to him accused of being heartless.So I did feel that it was important that at the initial point of arr
  
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• Weather tracker: Outbreak of tornadoes foreshadowed Milton’s arrival

  11-10-2024 11:18 via theguardian.com
  The effects of the hurricane that wreaked havoc across Florida were felt even before it made landfallHurricane Milton – latest updatesHurricane Milton has been wreaking havoc across Florida in recent days, with millions of people evacuating and 70,000 moving to government shelters, but its impact began even before it made landfall.Severe thunderstorms associated with the outer bands of the system produced an outbreak of tornadoes, some unusually powerful. While tornadoes are often produced
  
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• eSafety commissioner ends heated fight with Elon Musk’s X over Sydney church stabbing posts

  11-10-2024 11:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Two parties agree to end a review of notice to take down videos of the attack on Bishop Mar Mari EmmanuelGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Australian online safety regulator has effectively abandoned its legal fight with X over the removal of videos of April’s Wakeley church stabbing attack, after agreeing with the social media firm to end a judicial review of its orders.In April, the eSafety commissioner ordered X to hide 65 posts of the stabbing of Bishop Mar
  
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• Sydney restaurateur Alan Yazbek ‘unreservedly’ apologises after being charged over alleged display of Nazi symbol

  11-10-2024 10:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Nomad Group director issues statement, saying he offers an ‘olive branch of peace and love’ to wider Jewish communityFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prominent Sydney restaurateur Alan Yazbek has apologised “unreservedly” after being charged with knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol in public after Sunday’s pro-Palestine rallies.Photos from the 10,000-strong protest appear to show a ma
  
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• Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group takes £10m stake in online retailer THG

  11-10-2024 10:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Move is part of THG raising £95.4m to fund demerger of lossmaking technology arm IngenuityMike Ashley’s Frasers Group has become an investor in online retailer THG as part of a near-£100m fundraising to spin off the lossmaking technology arm Ingenuity.Frasers, which owns Sports Direct, Evans Cycles, the House of Fraser department stores, the luxury streetwear chain Flannels and multiple brands from Slazenger to Jack Wills, has made a strategic investment of £10m in THG. C
  
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• Justice ‘highly unlikely’ over Salisbury novichok attack, says Theresa May

  11-10-2024 09:53 via theguardian.com
  
  Ahead of opening of inquiry into death of Dawn Sturgess, former PM says attackers showed ‘utter recklessness’Theresa May has said “justice is highly unlikely” to come for the victims of the novichok attacks in Wiltshire, in an interview broadcast days before an inquiry opens into the Russian state poisonings.The former prime minister said she hoped that the family and friends of Dawn Sturgess, who was killed in 2018 after she was exposed to the nerve agent, would find com
  
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• Elon Musk unveils Tesla Cybercab self-driving robotaxi

  11-10-2024 08:54 via theguardian.com
  
  Billionaire says autonomous car expected ‘before 2027’ will have a pricetag of less than US$30,000, with a ‘Robovan’ that can carry 20 people to followTesla CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the company’s robotaxi, Cybercab, promising it will cost less than US$30,000, and announced plans to bring autonomous driving to its Model 3 and Model Y cars in California and Texas by next year.At the much-anticipated We, Robot event hosted at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Californ
  
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• ECHR ruling for Cyprus asylum seekers may embolden refugees in buffer zone

  11-10-2024 08:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawyers predict more claims after ‘perfect win’ for two Syrian asylum seekers pushed back to LebanonA ruling by the European court of human rights ordering authorities in Cyprus to pay damages to two Syrian refugees found to have been prevented from applying for asylum has been welcomed as a “perfect” victory by campaigners.Lawyers said Tuesday’s judgment would encourage others to follow suit, including an ever-growing group of asylum seekers stranded in the UN-patr
  
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