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Ministers ignored evidence of farm animals poisoned by lead, experts say

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"The effects of torture and oppression were clear on the prisoners’ bodies." The Palestinian Prisoners’ Media Office says Israeli authorities “deliberately insulted and assaulted prisoners until the moment of their release”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/efxuzp

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Trump signed an executive order Thursday establishing the “Make America Healthy Again Commission,” which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will chair. One virologist was quick to lay out multiple rhetorical quirks in the order that suggested an anti-vaccine agenda.

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Absolutely @dalevince.com By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK and is the largest factor by far stopping UK economic growth

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UK fails to improve on record low ranking in global table of corruption. More corrupt than Japan, Seychelles, Estonia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Singapore. Want to hire legislators, get govt contracts, launder money, escape regulation enforcement ... UK is the place.

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🔥 Please reshare this important statement on Ukraine from the governments of Germany, France, UK, Poland, Italy and Spain. Europe stands with Ukraine. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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This is exactly what the UK government is failing to do. Please read this thread to understand the critical risks at the heart of our democracy.

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Greece has become the latest European government to hire Washington lobbyists as it seeks to curry favour with the capricious president Donald Trump.

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There’s a word to describe countries notorious for human rights abuses hosting major sporting events: "sportswashing." Learn more in the latest episode of HRW's Rights & Wrongs podcast ⤵️ Spotify: spoti.fi/3UmP1BQ Apple Podcasts: apple.co/4bghhgA

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Gutting USAID will have a monumental effect on combating climate change. The agency was a key player in renewable energy and disaster protection around the world—until Elon Musk showed up.

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The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing an eight-month-pregnant Palestinian woman during an armed raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.

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Power station's further reporting failure exposed by BBC Draw burning wood from primary forests despite claiming to have stopped whilst receiving government subsidies.

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L’université de Grenoble est accusée d’aider indirectement l’armée russe Par Benjamin Jung

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The New York Times revealed last year that Musk and SpaceX failed to meet federal reporting requirements for Pentagon contractors. No one has asked: What’s going on with that today?

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Decathlon : la fausse promesse du sport «accessible pour tous» et responsable Exploitations de travailleurs au Bangladesh, travail d’enfant et travail forcé des Ouïghours subventionné par le gouvernement chinois...

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Donald Trump vs the media: US president wages war on the fourth estate https://www.ft.com/content/e9dabfc9-ffb3-4527-89e0-ca3c19405052

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The real threat to American prosperity https://www.ft.com/content/4e3f1731-3d63-4b31-88ce-c3f5157d8170

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Financial Times report: Donald Trump vs the media: US president wages war on the fourth estate Current analysis shows they are caving……

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"give me the man and I will find the crime" was a Stalinist thing

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All government agencies submit audited financial every single year. So, the last time USAID was audited was ... this past December! oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul... Who does the audits? The Inspectors General. Who are presently under attack, so that future crimes won't be seen.

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Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

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WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

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USA: 3rd ✈️ crash since Trump’s inauguration.. This one was a small plane flying from Unalakleet, Alaska, to Nome when its position was lost 12 miles offshore, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

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"...and to take us up to the hour, here's Warsaw Water Quality with the title track off their new record, 'Eight Clams With Magnets'."

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"An Israeli drone will not have targeted a child. Full stop." Danny Finkelstein

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Just spotted that the Musk White House has disbanded the legal effort to go after kleptocrats. It's beginning to feel a lot like the United States has just changed sides. www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

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Thousands of victims of modern slavery are being denied support because of Britain's crackdown on illegal migration, a decade after the approval of legislation that put the country at the forefront of the global fight against human trafficking reut.rs/4hqvlr5

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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

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From what I've heard in Brussels this week the EU currently has no particular desire to "move with pace" on easing checks on GB food and drink, and I think they'll need rather more persuasive reasons than set out here to for so.

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lol, "vetting"

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The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

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"In the spring,summer,or fall, Putin will deploy forces on the territory of Belarus&drag it into the war." -Zelenskyy "I don't know if there will be an invasion. In my opinion, after they attacked Ukraine with missiles, they were already in this war," he said.

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Unnoticed, as far as I can tell, amidst the other madness news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/bo...

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now that's how you write a headline www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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The U.S. Military Academy at West Point ordered 12 officially sanctioned clubs for women and ethnic or racial groups to shut down immediately, in a drive to comply with the Trump administration’s directives on diversity, equity and inclusion, the academy said on Wednesday.

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So............ I have to teach about the U.S. Constitution today to an introductory level class. How on earth am I supposed to pretend everything is just working normally? Answer: I'm not going to pretend. I'm telling it like it is.

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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

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Payday's "Day Without Immigrants" Strike Tracker found strikes in 120 cities & at least 40 states on Monday. While tens of thousands of workers of immigrant workers participated, neither the NYT, WashPost nor the big TV networks covered it. paydayreport.com/map-day-with...

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Richard Tice and Nigel Farage caught NODDING at #PMQs when Keir Starmer says Reform UK would replace the principle of the NHS being free at the point of use, for everyone, with an insurance-based model. Selling off our country's greatest achievement.

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Did you see the BBC's shocking Countryfile report on how post-Brexit food and plant checks at our border are driving up prices for everyday Brits? 👇

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There could hardly be a more insane headline than this - the whole of the US's foreign intelligence service being offered redundancy. This is going to end very badly, for America & (despite the CIA's bad press) many other countries whose security benefits from intelligence sharing.

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I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...

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Brexit Curse Efforts to keep potentially disease-ridden meat out of the UK undermined by post-Brexit border checks. Illegal meat sold on "most High Streets". Brexit has been a disaster. Must rejoin, boost economy, health, worker rights and stand-up to Trump.

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