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UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-02T07:00:20+00:00

Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock unitsMinisters are rewriting planning rules to make it easier to build intensive livestock farms despite concerns about water pollution, air quality and local opposition.Documents obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act show that proposed changes to the national planning policy framework (NPPF) were discussed by ministers and officials in response to concerns of the country’s leading chicken producers, who have been lobbying on the issue for at least two years. Continue readi

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Australia news live: One Nation wins fourth seat in SA; petrol prices fall 20 cents in two days in capital cities

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-02T07:00:02+00:00

Follow live updatesTrack Australia’s fuel prices, service station outages and shipments in chartsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Might as well have told us what he was going to have for dinner’: shadow minister lambasts address to the nationThe quips continue coming in thick and fast against Albanese’s address to the nation. The shadow minister for energy, Dan Tehan, tells ABC Radio:He might as well have told us what he was going to have for dinner last night. There was nothing new in it. He didn’t take the Australian people into his confidence.He made no commitment

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One Nation wins fourth seat in SA – as it happened

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-02T07:00:02+00:00

Follow live updatesTrack Australia’s fuel prices, service station outages and shipments in chartsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast‘Might as well have told us what he was going to have for dinner’: shadow minister lambasts address to the nationThe quips continue coming in thick and fast against Albanese’s address to the nation. The shadow minister for energy, Dan Tehan, tells ABC Radio:He might as well have told us what he was going to have for dinner last night. There was nothing new in it. He didn’t take the Australian people into his confidence.He made no commitment

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Западные СМИ назвали речь Трампа попыткой продать войну в Иране американцам

Source: Vedomosti – All Articles · Published: 2026-04-02T06:41:30+00:00

Президент США Дональд Трамп выступил с обращением к нации, в котором заявил, что его «основные стратегические цели» в иранском конфликте «близки к достижению». При этом, как пишет The Guardian, глава Белого дома не уточнил, как именно он планирует урегулировать конфликт в течение следующих «двух-трех недель». Выступление Трампа продолжалось 19 минут.

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L’Europe va négocier avec la NASA sa présence dans les futures missions lunaires

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-04-02T06:40:21+00:00

Cette annonce du directeur général de l’Agence spatiale européenne intervient alors que la NASA a annoncé il y a un peu plus d’une semaine suspendre le projet de construction d’une station spatiale autour de la Lune pour se concentrer sur la construction d’une base sur le sol lunaire.

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World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-02T06:38:14+00:00

Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donationsAt 194 years old, Jonathan, the giant tortoise, was a youngster when Queen Victoria ascended to the throne – and has now lived long enough to fall victim to a crypto scam.News outlets including the BBC, Daily Mail and USA Today falsely reported his death after an X account posing as Jonathan’s vet broke the news. Continue reading...

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Why RBI is clamping down on FX arbitrage

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-02T06:27:33+00:00

The rupee is expected to benefit from the measures as ‌the unwinding of arbitrage positions would spark a bout of heavy dollar sales in the onshore market

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Плани росіян щодо наступу в Донецькій області є абсурдними, – ISW

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-04-02T06:23:00+00:00

Росіяни також не змогли скористатися тим, що вже багато років контролюють більшу частину Луганської області, щоб розпочати успішний наступ на Слов'янськ чи Ізюм.

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Not mandatory to install pre-paid power meters: Govt in Lok Sabha

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-02T06:22:05+00:00

Power Minster Manohar Lal Khattar rejected suggestions that the government was compelling consumers to adopt pre-paid meters in a manner similar to private companies

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Bharti Airtel shares slip 1.3% despite Kotak upgrade to ‘Buy’

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-02T06:21:20+00:00

By 11.25 AM, the stock had touched a high of ₹1,777 and a low of ₹1,750, with traded volume already at 26.78 lakh shares worth ₹470.75 crore

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Middle East crisis live: oil prices climb after Trump defends Iran war in address to the nation

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-02T06:09:51+00:00

President used speech to justify the war and offer a timeline for its completion, as he faces falling poll numbers and a global energy crisis‘We have all the cards’: Trump says US war on Iran ‘nearing completion’Israel hits Iran with waves of attacks and says it killed top Hezbollah commanderTrump has claimed that Iran was “right at the doorstep” of gaining a nuclear weapon.Earlier on Wednesday the president said he did not care about Iran’s stock of highly enriched uranium (HEU), arguing it was deep underground and could be monitored by satellite.From the very beginning my campaign for presid

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Amir Chand shares hit lower circuit after weak debut, falling further by 10%

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-04-02T06:08:56+00:00

The stock debuted at ₹195 on the BSE, down 8.02% from the issue price of ₹212, and later fell 10.59% to ₹189.55. On the NSE, it opened at ₹200, a decline of 5.66%, before dropping 12% to ₹186.76

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‘We’re trapped’: developer’s unpaid debt leaves London flat owners unable to sell

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-02T06:00:19+00:00

Hackney leaseholders feel council made the problem worse by leaving £850,000 debt uncollected for eight yearsLeaseholders in east London have said they are “trapped in unsellable homes” because of an £850,000 debt owed by the building’s developer to Hackney council, who have let it go unpaid for eight years.The 17 leaseholders, who live in a block of flats in Upper Clapton, have appealed to the council for help but their pleas, including requests for a meeting, have been ignored. Continue reading...

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‘Overwhelmed’ Prevent at risk of missing threats as referrals rise, UK counter-terror chief says

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-04-02T06:00:18+00:00

Exclusive: Laurence Taylor says separate scheme needed to report concerns over young people’s non-ideological interest in extreme violenceThe scheme meant to identify people before they become terrorists is being “overwhelmed” by a large surge in referrals, Britain’s head of counterterrorism has said.Assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor told the Guardian that more than 10,000 people would be referred to Prevent this year, up more than a third from two years ago. Continue reading...

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