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At least 15 killed after military plane carrying banknotes crashes in Bolivia

At least 15 people have been killed and others injured after a Bolivian air force cargo plane crashed in the western city of El Alto, the country's authorities say. The incident happened at 18:15 local time (22:15 GMT) on Friday as the plane was arriving at El Alto's airport from …

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Boy assaulted by birth parents wins campaign for UK child cruelty register

An 11-year-old boy who had both legs amputated after being assaulted by his birth parents has won his campaign for a new child safety register. Parents guilty of neglect will face similar monitoring to sex offenders following an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, which the government said it …

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Bill Clinton asked about hot tub photo and testifies he knew 'nothing' of Epstein crimes

2 hours ago Ana Faguyand Nada Tawfik and Cai Pigliucci ,in Chappaqua, New York Former President Bill Clinton told a congressional panel he "saw nothing," and "did nothing wrong" in relation to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The all-day hearing behind closed doors in New York featured the former …

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Henry Zeffman: Green victory shows insurgent parties are here to stay

There are so many implications of the Gorton and Denton by-election that are essential to understand, but it's best first to dwell on the winner: the Greens. The closest they had come to winning a Westminster by-election before was in 2023 in a seat in Somerset where they got about …

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Mahmood to press on with immigration reforms despite by-election defeat

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to press ahead with reforms to the asylum and immigration system, despite the loss of a once-safe Labour seat to the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election. The Green Party of England and Wales has criticised Labour's stance on immigration – with its leader …

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eBay to lay off 800 staff

eBay is cutting around 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees. “We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce,” the company said in a statement. “We are grateful for the contributions of …

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X tries wooing advertisers by letting them reuse creatives made for other platforms

Elon Musk’s X is making it easier for advertisers to bring their creative campaigns from other social sites to its platform. On Thursday, the company launched an expanded set of aspect ratio support for both image and video ads, which means advertisers can now reuse the material they’ve created for …

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Spyware makers sentenced to prison in Greece for wiretapping politicians and journalists

A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy violations, according to several reports. Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed “Greek Watergate,” which dates …

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Google launches Nano Banana 2 model with faster image generation

Google today announced the latest version of its popular image generation model, Nano Banana 2. The new model, which is technically Gemini 3. 1 Flash Image, can create more realistic images than its predecessor. The model will also now become the default in the Gemini app for its Fast, Thinking, …

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A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source’s funding problem, permanently

A group of notable open source programmers are joining with a VC investor to launch a nonprofit called the Open Source Endowment in hopes of permanently solving the perennial issue with developing open source software: funding. Backers of the Open Source Endowment include Thomas Dohmke (the former GitHub CEO who …

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