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    VETA picks 14,433 students for 2026 vocational training

    Tanzania's vocational training authority picked over fourteen thousand new students for the next academic year. The VETA Director General, Anthony Kasore, announced the selections, stating this group makes up seventy six percent of all applicants. More than eight thousand of those selected are...
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    NSA trans employee sues over bathroom and pronoun ban

    An NSA data scientist has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the agency's leadership. Sarah O'Neill, who is transgender, claims the National Security Agency fostered a hostile work environment by revoking policies that protected her gender identity. The complaint states she was barred from...
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    UN pleads to halt execution of engineer over protest slogan

    UN human rights experts are demanding Iran call off the planned execution of Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a sixty-seven year old electrical engineer held in Lakan Prison. They detailed a list of severe legal breaches, from an arrest without a warrant and long-term solitary confinement to a trial by...
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    UN expert slams Bushra Khan’s prison conditions as cruel

    A UN human rights expert issued a sharp condemnation of the imprisonment conditions for Bushra Bibi Khan, the wife of former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan. Special Rapporteur Alice Jill Edwards described a small, unhygienic cell with no ventilation, frequent darkness from power cuts, and...
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    Belgium tells ICJ military aims don’t erase genocidal intent

    Belgium has formally stepped into the ongoing case at the International Court of Justice concerning Israel's actions in Gaza. Their legal filing argues against Israel's primary defense, stating that being in an armed conflict with Hamas does not automatically rule out a finding of genocidal...
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    Bangladesh press under siege after activist’s assassination

    A major crackdown on the free press is happening in Bangladesh following a political murder. After youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi was shot in Dhaka, widespread protests erupted. Mobs then targeted major media outlets, attacking the offices of Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, as well as the...
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    Supreme Court blocks Trump’s National Guard move in Chicago

    The Supreme Court just shut down a push to send National Guard troops into Chicago. In a brief, unsigned order, the justices refused to lift a lower court's block on the deployment. That earlier ruling from a federal judge in Illinois, April Perry, found no credible threat of rebellion in the...
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    Judge orders Trump admin to give Venezuelans due process

    A federal judge ruled the Trump administration broke the law by flying over a hundred Venezuelan migrants to a counter-terrorism prison in El Salvador. Judge James Boasberg found the deportations were rushed by wrongly labeling the migrants as "alien enemies," calling it a tactic to avoid...
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    Najib denied house arrest, must return to prison

    A Malaysian court just shut down the former prime minister's attempt to finish his prison term at home. Najib Razak will stay in Kajang Prison after the High Court in Kuala Lumpur rejected his request. The ruling centered on a special order for house arrest allegedly issued by the former king...
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    Sudan war hits 1,000 days as RSF tightens grip on Kordofan

    The conflict in Sudan is entering an even more brutal stage. UN officials warned the Security Council that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, are advancing in the Kordofan region. They now control the city of Babanusa in West Kordofan and have captured Heglig in South Kordofan. This...
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    Mangione’s McDonald’s bag search under scrutiny in NYC trial

    Day eight of the pre-trial hearings for Luigi Mangione focused heavily on police procedure in two different states. Mangione faces murder charges in New York for the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, but was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania. His defense is fighting to toss out...
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    Trump picks envoy for Greenland, Denmark cries foul

    So the guy just casually decides to appoint a special envoy for Greenland. That's the move. Donald Trump named Louisiana's governor, Jeff Landry, to this new gig, claiming Landry gets how vital Greenland is for American national security and will push U.S. interests. For anyone keeping score...
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    Apple slammed with €98m fine over double-consent app rule

    Italy just dropped a massive fine on Apple, hitting them for nearly one hundred million euros. The country's antitrust body ruled that Apple abused its dominant market position with its App Tracking Transparency feature. The specific problem, according to regulators, was a "double consent" rule...
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    Howard bolts to Switzerland as UK tax heat rises

    Another ultra-rich finance guy just ditched the UK. Alan Howard, who started the giant hedge fund Brevan Howard, officially changed his residency to Switzerland. The guy is worth billions, depending on which rich list you check, and he built his firm in London back in 2002. It now handles tens...
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    Coates cashes in £280m as Bet365 profits plunge

    Man, the numbers in these gambling CEO paychecks are just a different reality. Denise Coates, who runs Bet365 from its base in Stoke-on-Trent, just bagged at least two hundred and eighty million pounds for the last year. That’s salary plus dividends, even though the company's actual pre-tax...
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    Ellison bets billions to outbid Netflix for Warner Bros

    Alright, so the mega-billionaire tech bro Larry Ellison just went full wallet warrior in this Hollywood studio cage match. He slapped down a personal guarantee for over forty billion dollars to back his son David's company, Paramount Skydance, in their insane attempt to buy Warner Bros...
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    UK firms flop in EU sales, blame Brexit bungles

    Right, the post-Brexit trade glow-up is apparently not happening. New polling from the British Chambers of Commerce shows that over half of UK companies, we're talking 54 percent, can't grow their sales in Europe. This is getting worse, not better, with that number jumping up 13 points from just...
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    UK firms brace for slow start, weak demand drags on

    Business activity in the UK just fell off a cliff. A survey from a major business group shows a huge drop, with way more companies reporting declines than growth. They think this weak mess will last until spring. Economists point to scared consumers who stopped spending before the recent Budget...
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    SpudBros fries up nostalgia, TikTok tubers go nationwide

    Another day, another 90s relic getting a hype train. This time it's the jacket potato, because apparently Gen Z discovered carbs. A TikTok-famous operation called SpudBros, started by two brothers named Jacob and Harley Nelson from Preston, is going national. They just teamed up with a roadside...
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    ScrubMarine’s robot turtles clean hulls, ditch divers

    Of course, a 22-year-old is fixing a hundred billion-dollar problem for the global shipping industry. A startup called ScrubMarine, run by founder Rohith Devanathan, just got over seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds from investors. The backers include SFC Capital and PXN Ventures, plus some...
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