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Telangana to introduce bill to curb hate speech in Budget session

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-05T17:33:31+00:00

Speaking at a programme organised by Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind in Hyderabad, the Chief Minister said stringent laws were necessary to tackle hate speech and ensure peace and social harmony

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Revealed: private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T17:30:43+00:00

Exclusive: Luxury aircraft owned by property tycoon close to US president’s family has twice flown Palestinian men from Arizona to Tel AvivOn the morning of 21 January, Israeli authorities left eight Palestinian men at a West Bank checkpoint. Disoriented and cold, they were dressed in prison-issued tracksuits and carried their few belongings in plastic bags.Hours earlier, they had been sitting with their wrists and ankles shackled on the plush leather seats of a private jet owned by the Florida property tycoon Gil Dezer, a longtime business partner of Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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Supermassive black hole stuns scientists with record-long stellar jet

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-05T17:27:00+00:00

Using radio telescopes in New Mexico and South Africa, researchers found that the jet began two years after the stellar destruction and has continued intensifying for over six years—longer than any similar event ever recorded.

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David Furnish calls alleged phone hacks of him and Elton John ‘an abomination’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T17:25:29+00:00

Furnish says he and his husband felt ‘violated’ by the Daily Mail, who allegedly used information gained unlawfullyDavid Furnish has said it is “an abomination” that the publisher of the Daily Mail was able to write “narrow-minded” stories about him and his husband, Elton John, using information allegedly secured by unlawful means.In evidence submitted to the high court, Furnish said he and John had been “violated” by the Mail, after being told that it had worked with private detectives to intercept their phone calls and personal details. Continue reading...

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Trump administration issues rule making it easier to fire federal workers – live

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T17:16:18+00:00

Office of Personnel Management says reclassification will allow agencies to quickly remove employees who ‘obstruct the democratic process by intentionally subverting Presidential directives’Amid the various winding comments throughout Trump’s speech today, he said that the Department of Education will officially issue its new guidance to protect the right to prayer in public schools today.“Now the Democrats will sue us, but we’ll win it,” Trump said, eliciting some laughs from the audience at the National Prayer Breakfast. “They’ll sue us. They sue us for everything. I’m the most sued human be

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : les dernières informations après la fin des nouvelles négociations entre Russes et Ukrainiens, sous l’égide américaine

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-05T17:15:04+00:00

Peu d’informations ont été rendues publiques après les pourparlers d’Abou Dhabi, Volodymyr Zelensky assurant que les négociations ne sont pas « simples ». Depuis plusieurs semaines, le Kremlin reste inflexible et revendique les régions de l’est de l’Ukraine.

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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : les dernières informations après la fin des nouvelles négociations entre Russes et Ukrainiens, sous l’égide des Américains

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-02-05T17:15:04+00:00

De nouveaux pourparlers entre Russes, Ukrainiens et Américains sont prévus « dans les semaines à venir », a annoncé le négociateur en chef de Kiev. Ils auront très probablement lieu aux Etats-Unis, selon Volodymyr Zelensky.

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Cinco agujeros negros para los derechos humanos en el mundo

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-02-05T17:05:21+00:00

El informe mundial 2026 de Human Rights Watch denuncia las persistentes violaciones de libertades fundamentales en diferentes regiones

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Seis agujeros negros para los derechos humanos en el mundo

Source: El País - Internacional · Published: 2026-02-05T17:05:21+00:00

El informe mundial 2026 de Human Rights Watch denuncia las persistentes violaciones de libertades fundamentales en diferentes regiones

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UK plans to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T17:00:42+00:00

Exclusive: Campaigners say proposed cut from £11.9bn over past five years to £9bn over next five years will cost lives and livelihoodsThe UK plans to slash its aid to poor countries stricken by the climate crisis by more than a fifth, the Guardian has learned, despite promises to increase assistance and warnings from campaigners that the move will cost lives and livelihoods.Ministers plan to cut climate finance for the developing world from £11.6bn over the past five years to £9bn in the next five. In real terms, accounting for inflation, this would represent a cut of about 40% in spending pow

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UK to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T17:00:42+00:00

Exclusive: Campaigners say proposed cut from £11.9bn over past five years to £9bn over next five years will cost lives and livelihoodsThe UK plans to slash its aid to poor countries stricken by the climate crisis by more than a fifth, the Guardian has learned, despite promises to increase assistance and warnings from campaigners that the move will cost lives and livelihoods.Ministers plan to cut climate finance for the developing world from £11.6bn over the past five years to £9bn in the next five. In real terms, accounting for inflation, this would represent a cut of about 40% in spending pow

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Starmer has ‘full confidence’ in Morgan McSweeney, No 10 says amid calls for his sacking – as it happened

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T16:56:53+00:00

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereAfter the release of a vast tranche of documents and emails that shed further light on the close relationship between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein, the government has come under intense pressure to release details about its vetting process before Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador in December 2024.Below, we look at how much Keir Starmer knew about Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein, and what vetting process the former peer went through for the top diplomatic job in Washington. Continue reading...

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Is this the end for Starmer? – The Latest

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T16:50:42+00:00

Keir Starmer’s days as prime minister are numbered, Labour MPs have warned, after a week of fury over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. While several MPs have said the prime minister’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, should take responsibility and resign, the mood surrounding No 10 has seemed ‘terminal’, said an MP from the 2024 intake. Lucy Hough talks to political correspondent Alexandra Topping Continue reading...

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London man angry at ‘Orwellian’ incident in supermarket using facial recognition tech

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T16:47:44+00:00

‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am innocent,’ said man misidentified by Sainsbury’s staff using Facewatch systemA man was ordered to leave a supermarket in London after staff misidentified him using controversial new facial recognition technology.Warren Rajah was told to abandon his shopping and leave the local store he has been using for 15 years after an “Orwellian” error in a Sainsbury’s in Elephant and Castle. Continue reading...

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SOPA opposes GM soyameal imports, says domestic supplies are adequate

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-02-05T16:44:59+00:00

SOPA is sounding the alarm that these imports could undermine our local agriculture and worsen the trade deficit—something we can all get behind as we support homegrown farmers

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Epstein files shed more light on Steve Bannon’s efforts to influence European politics

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T16:43:21+00:00

Donald Trump’s former adviser told Epstein in 2019 that he was ‘focused on raising money for Le Pen and Salvini’ before European electionsDozens of messages contained in the latest tranche of Epstein files lay bare the attempts by Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon to tap Jeffrey Epstein for support and funding to bolster European far-right parties.The messages mostly date to 2018 and 2019, when Bannon, after being sacked by Trump, regularly visited Europe in his quest to forge a movement in the European parliament uniting ultra-rightwing and Eurosceptic forces from several co

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Man who stabbed nine-year-old to death in Lincolnshire found guilty of murder

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-02-05T16:36:18+00:00

Family of Lilia Valutyte, killed by Deividas Skebas in July 2022, say she ‘will always live in our hearts’A man who stabbed a nine-year-old girl to death in 2022 has been found guilty of her murder.Deividas Skebas, a 26-year-old Lithuanian man, killed Lilia Valutyte by stabbing her through the heart while the child was playing with a hula hoop outside her mother’s embroidery shop in Boston, Lincolnshire, on 28 July 2022. Continue reading...

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