Category: World
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Vance Boelter pleaded not guilty in Hennepin County to first-degree murder over the killing of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and demanded a speedy trial. He has already been convicted once. Here is why a second trial is lawful.
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House prosecutors called Sara Duterte’s own defence spokesman as their witness, and the impeachment court immediately declared him hostile. He was her chief of staff at the education department when the 112.5 million pesos moved.
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Chevron will put $7bn into Venezuela and more than double production. Exxon, asked the same week whether anything had changed since it called the country uninvestable, said nothing had. One of those two judgements will turn out to be wrong.
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Indiana has 82,000 fewer people on food assistance than it did last October. Asked how many were removed for ineligibility and how many for paperwork, the state agency said it could not say — which is the part worth reporting.
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Seventy-three UN staff are being held by the Houthis, and a May agreement to release more than 1,600 conflict-related detainees has stalled. Coverage of Yemen follows the missiles, which is how the slower failures go unrecorded.
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The Chapel Hill ministerial closed with a consensus statement and China’s signature. A text both Washington and Beijing can sign is a text that binds neither — and the clearest call for safety testing came from a frontier lab, not a government.
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A report says paid Church of England clergy have fallen to 6,295, a record low, and that resignations now outnumber retirements. The second figure is the one that should worry the institution, and the poorest parishes feel it first.
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More than 1,040 Palestinians injured in settler attacks since January, over 1,000 structures demolished, around 1,360 displaced. The figures are published continuously by the UN and quoted almost nowhere, because a running total never becomes news on any particular day.
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At a G20 ministerial in Chapel Hill, the United States is asking the world’s largest economies to commit to not building AI regulators. France and Germany are bound by an Act that already created them.
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The House voted 370-48 to fund the government through 11 December, a month before it had to. The Appropriations chairman said out loud what the timing was for: getting Congress past the November elections.