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The 85-Year-Old Widow Snagged by Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-04-25T06:38:45+00:00

In her first interview since being deported, Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé, the French widow of a former G.I., recounted her experience in ICE detention.

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Here’s why nobody might win the West Asia war

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-25T06:31:08+00:00

It’s Iran’s need to survive against US and Israel’s many wants

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En Iran, l’accès à Internet devient un privilège accordé par le pouvoir

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-04-25T06:17:55+00:00

Depuis les frappes américano-israéliennes du 28 février, la coupure du réseau mondial s’inscrit dans la durée. Téhéran met en place un système d’accès différencié, réservé à certaines catégories, marquant un tournant vers un Internet hiérarchisé et largement fermé à l’écrasante majorité de la population.

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UK schoolboys’ fatal hike remembered in Black Forest 90 years on

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-25T06:00:39+00:00

Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coupOn 17 April 1936, the bells of St Laurentius church in the Black Forest rang out to guide to safety a group of London schoolboys trapped in deep snow on a mountain hike gone very wrong. Ninety years on to the day, as the bells sounded again, there was hardly a dry eye in the congregation of British relatives and German villagers remembering the night that had brought together their parents and grandparents.The people of Hofsgrund risked their lives heading out with sle

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How the Walsall rapist John Ashby exposed his misogyny rapping online

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-25T06:00:37+00:00

The 32-year-old jailed for life for a racially motivated sex attack on a Sikh woman had a collection of hate-filled uploadsJohn Ashby is a man who did not hide his hatred of women.In fact, the rapist, who was sentenced this week to life in prison with a minimum of 14 years for a racially motivated sex attack on a Sikh woman, vented his misogyny online for all to see. Continue reading...

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Delhi sees rise in minimum temperature; IMD forecasts heatwave conditions

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-25T06:00:18+00:00

Safdarjung, representative of the city's weather, recorded a minimum temperature of 25.2 degrees Celsius, 2.5 degrees above the normal and a mere 0.7 degree rise from a day before

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No repoll ordered in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal: EC officials

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-25T05:12:20+00:00

According to a senior Election Commission official, the polling process was completed without any major disruption that would warrant fresh voting at any booth

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‘Cries of delight’ as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for first time

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-25T05:00:40+00:00

After a two-year wait, video of a young male crossing above a road gives hope that critically endangered species can survive habitat fragmentationThe critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a canopy bridge to cross a road.In 2024, conservationists in the Pakpak Bharat district of North Sumatra in Indonesia built the bridge high over the Lagan-Pagindar road, which provides an essential route for local people but which became a barrier for animals. Continue reading...

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Walking the dog and braving the paps: the art of the doorstep photo, from Keane to Mandelson

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-25T05:00:38+00:00

Former US ambassador and Labour peer joins a long line of people who have gone out to meet awaiting paparazzi head-onFor a man at the centre of a storm that has rocked the political establishment, Peter Mandelson has spent the week looking remarkably relaxed. Day after day, as MPs have grilled civil servants over who knew what when about the former US ambassador’s security vetting, and police continue to investigate serious allegations over his own conduct, Mandelson has stepped out of his Regent’s Park mansion and pottered across the road to take his dog for a walk.Smart-casually dressed in j

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Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-25T05:00:36+00:00

In February 2025, a cheap Russian drone tore through Chornobyl’s confinement shelter. Workers warn the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is not safe yetThe dosimeter clipped to your chest ticks faster the moment you step off the designated path inside the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Step back, and it slows again – an invisible line between clean ground and contamination.Above rises the “new safe confinement” (NSC) – the largest, movable steel structure ever built, taller than the Statue of Liberty, wider than the Colosseum, its arch curving overhead like an aircraft hangar built fo

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Hanged under the cover of war: letters and videos tell stories of Iran’s death row victims

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-25T05:00:36+00:00

Testimony emerges from Babak Alipour, who spent three years on death row before being taken to gallows in March Writing from his cell in the Rajai Shahr prison in the northern Iranian city of Karaj, Babak Alipour wanted to tell his friends about those who had already gone to their execution.There was Behrouz Ehsani, 69, the elder statesman of the group, who was “never angry” about their predicament. Then there was Mehdi Hassani, a 48-year-old father of three who he saw a couple of times in the prison hospital and who would ask him to pass on to the children the message that he was “fine”. Cont

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Delhi's sees rise in min temperature; IMD forecasts heatwave conditions

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-25T04:53:19+00:00

Safdarjung, representative of the city's weather, recorded a minimum temperature of 25.2 degrees Celsius, 2.5 degrees above the normal and a mere 0.7 degree rise from a day before

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Witkoff and Kushner to Go to Pakistan for Talks on Iran

Source: New York Times - World · Published: 2026-04-25T04:49:21+00:00

The two American envoys are expected to leave Saturday for Pakistan. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, arrived in Islamabad on Friday.

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ISRO partners with Panchayati Raj ministry, finishes nationwide land mapping

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-25T04:42:11+00:00

On National Panchayati Raj Day, the space agency said in a post on ‘X’ that it has completed high-resolution (1:10,000 scale) land use and land cover mapping for the entire country

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Google to invest up to $40 billion in AI rival Anthropic

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-25T04:40:57+00:00

The investment comes just ‌days ⁠after e-commerce giant Amazon said it will invest up ⁠to $25 billion in the start-up

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