Sam Gruet
Technology Reporter
Getty ImagesWhen Jared first started out in trucking more than two decades ago, he didn’t anticipate he’d be on tour with a country music star, hauling…
Category: 2. World
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Trucking’s uneasy relationship with new tech
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Yemen targets Israel with five drones in fresh retaliatory ops
The Yemeni armed forces have “successfully” targeted key strategic sites deep inside Israeli-occupied territories using five drones, just hours after the regime launched an attack on Yemen’s Red Sea port.
In a…
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Dhaka crash: ‘My friend died right in front of me’
Abul Azad, Sajal Das, Shahnewaj Rocky and Mukimul AhsanBBC Bangla, in Dhaka
BBCYear 10 student Farhan Hasan had just finished an exam when the plane crashed Farhan Hasan had just finished an exam and left the classroom chatting to friends when a…
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How Donald Trump is using the courts to push through his agenda
Gary O’DonoghueChief North America correspondent
BBCIt was a warm, late May afternoon in 2024 in lower Manhattan. The jury in Donald Trump’s trial over hush money paid by his former lawyer to adult film star Stormy Daniels was out deliberating for…
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Officer convicted in Breonna Taylor raid gets 33-month sentence
“We’re grateful he’s at least going to prison”, says attorney to Breonna Taylor’s family A former Kentucky police officer has been sentenced to 33 months in prison after being convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in the fatal shooting…
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Trump administration releases files on slain civil rights leader
US President Donald Trump’s administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader.
A court-imposed order had kept the FBI documents, totalling…
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Security committee launches inquiry into Afghan data leak
Parliament’s intelligence watchdog has announced it will launch an inquiry into a major data breach which compromised the identities of thousands of Afghans and British military officials.
The data leak prompted a super-injunction which meant the…
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US court orders new trial for man convicted of killing Etan Patz
A US appeals court has ruled that the man convicted in the 1979 murder and disappearance of a six-year-old boy in New York City should receive a new trial, or be released.
Etan Patz’s disappearance on his way to a school bus stop in Manhattan…
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UK and 27 other nations condemn Israel over civilian suffering
The UK and 27 other countries have called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza, where they say the suffering of civilians has “reached new depths”.
A joint statement says Israel’s aid delivery model is dangerous and condemns what it calls the…
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Washington Commanders: President Donald Trump threatens stadium block unless Commanders change name
President Donald Trump has threatened to block a deal for the Washington Commanders’ new stadium if the American football team does not revert to their original name.
The US president said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday that a “big…
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