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Ireland and Israel will play two football matches despite growing Irish calls for a boycott due to the genocide in Gaza., When European football’s governing body announced the schedule for its upcoming Nations League competition in February, one fixture became an instant point of contention. The Republic of Ireland andContinue Reading

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Pervasive, persistent and poisonous: How one US company helped pollute the world with forever chemicals., People & Power Pervasive, persistent and poisonous: How one US company helped pollute the world with forever chemicals. When scientists discovered a new class of chemicals in the 1940s, they knew they had struck gold.Continue Reading

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Since Madagascar’s October 2025 coup, Russian military personnel have joined the parliament speaker’s security detail, and Russian instructors have begun training Malagasy soldiers, RFE/RL reported. OSINT investigators traced a flight carrying a senior Russian military intelligence officer and 40 of Russia’s Africa Corps members to the island on 20 DecemberContinue Reading

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Russia’s large combined missile-and-drone attack on Kyiv early on 24 September killed two people in the capital and damaged residential and civilian infrastructure, including a maternity hospital, according to Vitali Klitschko, the capital’s mayor. The strike involved 282 attack drones alongside ballistic and hypersonic missiles, Ukraine’s Air Force said. The strikeContinue Reading

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Thomas, 37, arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life, endangering the safety of a ship., Thomas, 37, arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life, endangering the safety of a ship. British police have arrested a far-right anti-immigration activist after he live-streamed footageContinue Reading

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Incident highlights growing concerns about AI’s impact on cybersecurity and AI disclosure procedures, say experts., Australian authorities have raised the alarm after OpenAI-powered models hacked into a government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation. This is the first publicly known caseContinue Reading