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Plan to sell artifacts from Titanic faces US government opposition

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-23T04:22:16+00:00

Opponents of selling artifacts recovered from the wreckage say the company is bound by a 1990s agreement that gave RMS Titanic exclusive salvage rights to the ship in exchange for promising to never sell those items

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Australia politics live: Australia politics live: Tim Wilson attacks Labor’s ‘dodgy’ tax deal with Greens; question time begins

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-23T04:09:59+00:00

Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith invitation to war memorial event ‘appropriate’, says MarlesRichard Marles says it’s appropriate that the accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith will attend the official opening for the centrepiece of the revamped Australian War Memorial.It’s appropriate that Ben Roberts-Smith be given an invite to this, as a Victoria Cross recipient.The Victoria Cross recipients have been invited to this, which is appropriate, I’m comfortable about that. What will be opened – the Australian War Memorial, it’s a

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Those British Strawberries Are Being Picked by Central Asian Workers

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-06-23T04:01:09+00:00

Ten years after Brexit, most seasonal workers in Britain are from countries such as Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Without them, agricultural chiefs say, many farms would fail.

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‘Canaries in the coalmine of populism’: an oral history of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front row seat

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:33+00:00

How five months in 2016 that encompassed Boris Johnson siding with Vote Leave, Jo Cox’s murder and David Cameron’s resignation shaped the UK’s futureDavid Cameron, having promised in 2013 that a future Conservative government would offer a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, announces the date of the vote: 23 June 2016. The next day, Boris Johnson, then the mayor of London, says he will campaign for leave. Continue reading...

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Three in five gen Z Britons would like new vote to rejoin EU, poll finds

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:32+00:00

Exclusive: Data reveals 60% of 18 to 28-year-olds would vote to rejoin bloc if given the opportunityA generation of young Britons who were locked out of the 2016 EU referendum because of their age now believe that Brexit has failed, with a majority demanding a fresh vote to rejoin the EU, exclusive polling shows.Gen Z Britons show deep dissatisfaction with the UK’s departure from the EU, according to new polling of 18- to 28-year-olds conducted by the thinktank More in Common and shared with the Guardian. Continue reading...

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EU faces fierce criticism over plans to host Taliban in Brussels

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:31+00:00

Rights campaigners and MEPs say meeting would normalise regime that erases women from public lifeEU officials are facing fierce criticism over plans to host the Taliban in Brussels on Tuesday, with rights campaigners and MEPs warning that the meeting risks normalising a regime that has banned girls from school beyond the sixth grade and sought to erase women from public life, while its ranks include two leaders accused of crimes against humanity.The Belgian foreign ministry said on Monday it had issued five single-day visas to a Taliban delegation to attend a meeting in Brussels. Sources told

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About 400,000 UK children supported by baby banks, up 11% on previous year

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:31+00:00

Exclusive: Charities say they ‘cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty’ without government supportFour hundred thousand children in the UK were supported by baby banks in 2025, an 11% increase from the year before, prompting warnings from charities that they “cannot continue to absorb the impact of child poverty on this scale” without government support.New research from the Baby Bank Alliance, set up by Save the Children UK to represent and advocate for more than 400 baby banks across the country, found that an average of 1,096 children were being supported by each member every

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Extreme heat: is the UK becoming a 40C country? – podcast

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:30+00:00

Met Office forecasters have issued a rare red weather warning for England, with temperatures potentially reaching 40C (104F) in some places. Europe is also dealing with a debilitating heatwave, with schools closed, trains cancelled and France even restricting the consumption of alcohol outdoors to take pressure off the emergency services. The high temperatures coincide with the coming El Niño, which some scientists have nicknamed Godzilla for its predicted strength. To find out whether the two are linked, Ian Sample hears from our Europe climate correspondent, Ajit Niranjan. He explains why it

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« Le Brexit a ouvert un boulevard à l’extrême droite au Royaume-Uni et dans le monde »

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:29+00:00

Dix ans après la victoire du oui au référendum britannique sur la sortie de l’Union européenne, l’historien Andrew Knapp revient, dans une tribune au « Monde », sur les effets politiques et économiques aussi destructeurs que durables de ce choix, pour le Royaume-Uni comme pour l’Europe.

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Есть к чему стремиться

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

Москва – самый комфортабельный мегаполис мира. Враждебное отношение к нам, москвичам, вызвано в том числе и нашим недовольством тем, о чем основная часть страны не может и мечтать.

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Colombia se suma al avance de la ultraderecha en América Latina

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-06-23T04:00:00+00:00

En 12 países ya gobierna la derecha en sus diferentes variantes, y se consolidan los modelos de mano dura en seguridad, el recorte de derechos de las mujeres y las minorías, y alianzas en la estela de Trump

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PPFAS Mutual Fund makes contrarian bet on IT stocks

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-23T03:52:30+00:00

The Nifty IT index is down over 27% this year, driving a sharp compression in valuations. The gauge trades at 15.7 times 2026 estimated price to earnings, down from 21.2 times a year ago

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AI start-up Reflection signs computing power deal with SpaceX

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-23T03:44:28+00:00

Under the agreement, the open-source AI startup will get immediate access to Nvidia GB300s, AI ‌chips used to train and run advanced models, and has agreed ‌to pay SpaceX $150 million per month beginning ‌July ⁠1, 2026

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EN DIRECT, guerre au Moyen-Orient : « l’Iran administrera le détroit d’Ormuz » à l’issue du conflit, affirme le négociateur iranien, qui se félicite des « belles réussites » obtenues par son pays dans les négociations

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-23T03:44:09+00:00

« Tout le monde doit savoir que l’administration du détroit d’Ormuz ne redeviendra jamais ce qu’elle était avant la guerre », a déclaré Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf lundi.

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SpaceX falls for third day, erases $600 billion in market value

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-06-23T03:32:18+00:00

The stock fell 16% Monday to close at $154.60, the lowest level since the company’s first day of trading, pushing its three-day loss to 23% and erasing over $600 billion in value over that period

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Google se fait braconner ses talents dans l’IA par OpenAI et Anthropic

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-06-23T03:27:21+00:00

La maison mère du géant de la tech, Alphabet, dévisse en Bourse, alors que les surinvestissements se poursuivent et qu’une guerre des prix dans l’intelligence artificielle, avec l’aide de modèles chinois, menace les leaders du secteur.

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