By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Saturday that a $1 billion settlement offer by President Donald Trump’s administration for UCLA amounted to political extortion to which the state will not bow.
WHY…
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France’s last newspaper hawker gets Order of Merit after 50 years
Hugh SchofieldParis correspondent
BBCAli Akbar, now 72, has spent 50 years selling newspapers on the Left Bank He is France’s last newspaper hawker; maybe the last in Europe.
Ali Akbar has been pounding the pavement of Paris’s Left Bank for more…
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The village in Peru that lives in the dark next to a massive solar plant
Alejandro Millán ValenciaBBC News Mundo
BBCResidents of Pampa Clemesí, in southern Peru, rely on flashlights to make their way through the darkness Each morning, Rosa Chamami wakes to flames licking at cardboard scraps in a makeshift stove in her…
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British Police Arrest 474 People At Protest Over Palestine Action Ban In London
On Saturday night, the Metropolitan police announced: “Parliament Square and Whitehall are clear. As of 9pm, 466 people had been arrested for showing support for Palestine Action.
“There were a further eight arrests for other offences…
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The complex question of what it is to be culturally Irish in 2025
BBCHe sang wistfully of the English town that shaped his life.
“Found my heart and broke it here. Made friends and lost them through the years. And I’ve not seen the roaring fields in so long, I know I’ve grown. But I can’t wait to go home.”
Ed…
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Niger’s anger that a piece of Mars ended up for auction
EPAThe Martian meteorite found in Niger went on display in New York before it was auctioned “Brazen! It is brazen!” Prof Paul Sereno says down the phone line from Chicago.
He makes no effort to disguise his anger that a rare meteorite from Mars…
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It shocked the US market but has China’s DeepSeek changed AI?
Lily JamaliReporting fromSan Francisco
ShutterstockUS President Donald Trump had been in office scarcely a week when a new Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app called DeepSeek jolted Silicon Valley.
Overnight, DeepSeek-R1 shot to the top of the…
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Al Hilal sign Darwin Nunez from Liverpool | Football News
Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez completes $62m move from Premier League champions Liverpool to Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal.
The Saudi Arabian soccer league has secured its latest marquee signing after Darwin Nunez completed the move from Liverpool to…
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Slovenia bans arms trade with Israel
Dieter Reinisch
Press TV, ViennaSlovenia has announced an arms embargo to Israel as well as a ban on imports of all goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank….
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Salah criticises UEFA tribute to ‘Palestinian Pele’ | Football News
Former Palestinian international player Suleiman Al-Obeid was killed by an Israeli attack on aid seekers in Gaza on Wednesday.
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has criticised the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)’s tribute to the…
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