EPAItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is heading to the US to meet Donald Trump – a visit that will see her walk a tightrope between representing the interests of the EU and remaining in the US president’s good books.
As the first European…
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Tesla whistleblower wins legal battle against Elon Musk
Graham FraserTechnology reporter
Getty ImagesA Tesla whistleblower who has fought Elon Musk and his company through the courts for years has won the latest round of a long-running legal battle.
Engineer Cristina Balan lost her job after she raised…
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Tracing weapons flows from the US
Jacqui Wakefield, Christopher Giles and Joshua CheethamGlobal Disinformation Unit, BBC World Service
BBCThe assault rifles and pistols arrived in Haiti stashed in two cardboard boxes, nestled among packages of food and clothes, on a cargo ship…
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Aboard the ‘silver train’, China’s retirees do their bit to offset Trump’s tariffs
Stephen McDonellChina correspondent
BBC/Benjamin BegleyThe ‘silver train’ initiative aims to get retirees to visit remote parts of China and boost the local economy Beijing insists it will stand firm in the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese…
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Star of Philippines cinema dies aged 71
Nora Aunor, one of the Philippines’ most celebrated film stars, has died at the age of 71.
Ms Aunor’s death on Wednesday was announced by her children on social media, but no further details were provided about her cause of death.
“She touched…
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Deported Salvadoran will never live back in US, says White House
Kwasi Gyamfi AsieduBBC News, Washington
Watch: White House says man mistakenly deported to El Salvador will ‘never’ live in US again The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported…
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Why China curbing rare earth exports is a huge blow to the US
Getty ImagesNeodymium is used to make the powerful magnets used in loudspeakers and computer hard drives As the trade war between China and the US escalates, attention has been focused on the increasingly high levels of tit-for-tat tariffs the two…
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The truth about life on other planets and what it means for Earth
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There are some scientific discoveries that do much more than advance our knowledge: they create a shift in our psyche as they show us the scale of the Universe and our place in it.
One such moment was when…
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Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b
Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.
A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by…
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Michelle Trachtenberg died from diabetes complications, medical examiner says
US actress Michelle Trachtenberg died a natural death from complications caused by diabetes, according to the New York City medical examiner’s office.
The 39-year-old actress was found “unconscious and unresponsive” in her New York City apartment…
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