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Macron under pressure over reparatory justice for France’s role in slave trade
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Macron under pressure over reparatory justice for France’s role in slave trade

Demands grow for launch of formal discussion process on how country should address legacies of enslavementEmmanuel Macron is under pressure to open discussions on reparatory justice for France’s role in hundreds of years of enslavement of African people as he makes a key speech on the legacy of slav...

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
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New Orleans prosecutors file formal battery charges against Shia LaBeouf
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New Orleans prosecutors file formal battery charges against Shia LaBeouf

Prosecutors opt not to pursue hate-crime charges over February incident despite anti-gay slurs captured on videoNew Orleans state prosecutors on Thursday filed formal misdemeanor battery charges against Shia LaBeouf, four months after police officers there arrested him on allegations that he struck...

Ramon Antonio Vargas
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Hungary to limit prime ministers to maximum eight-year terms
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Hungary to limit prime ministers to maximum eight-year terms

Péter Magyar’s draft amendment would prevent Viktor Orbán from returning to the roleEurope live – latest updatesHungary’s new government, led by Péter Magyar, has put forward a constitutional amendment that would limit prime ministers to a maximum of eight years in office, in effect barring Viktor O...

Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent
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Queen’s ‘keenness’ for Andrew to be trade envoy was a grave mistake
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Queen’s ‘keenness’ for Andrew to be trade envoy was a grave mistake

The monarch may have thought the role would keep her ‘favourite’ second son out of trouble. How wrong she wasThat Queen Elizabeth II was “very keen” for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to take on a “prominent role in the promotion of national interests” as a trade envoy in 2001 demonstrates the fierce su...

Caroline Davies
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Parody Cockroach Janta political party’s rise reflects youth anger in India
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Parody Cockroach Janta political party’s rise reflects youth anger in India

Satirical project is viral sensation and outlet for protest on social media as it taps into young people’s frustrationIt began as a satirical online project after a high court judge compared unemployed young people to cockroaches. Now millions of young Indians are flocking to it as an outlet for the...

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San Diego shooting shows disturbing trend of shooters copying acts of violence
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San Diego shooting shows disturbing trend of shooters copying acts of violence

Experts say hate-motivated extremists being radicalized online and adopting ideologies of shooters before themThe killing of three men at a San Diego mosque on Monday is the latest example of a disturbing trend in recent decades: hate-motivated shooters learning from – and copying – each other in ac...

Abené Clayton
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More than 100 young care leavers in England died in past year, data shows
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More than 100 young care leavers in England died in past year, data shows

Labour has launched an urgent review into the deaths, which one expert described as ‘unspeakably tragic’More than 100 young people have died after leaving the care of social services in England in the past year, according to data released by the government.In the year to April 2026 there were 106 re...

Diane Taylor
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Air France and Airbus guilty of corporate manslaughter for 2009 plane crash
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Air France and Airbus guilty of corporate manslaughter for 2009 plane crash

Verdict is latest legal milestone over France’s worst ever air disasterA Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew in France’s worst air disaster.The verdict is the latest milestone in...

Reuters in Paris
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Reeves cuts VAT on summer days out to 5% as part of cost of living support
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Reeves cuts VAT on summer days out to 5% as part of cost of living support

Chancellor says she will raise tax on global oil giants to help meet costs of plans and confirms freeze on fuel duty increasesBusiness live – latest updatesRachel Reeves will cut VAT to 5% on summer attractions such as theme parks and softplay centres during the school holidays, as she aims to ease...

Heather Stewart Economics editor
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Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive
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Record number of dams dismantled in Europe in effort to help wildlife thrive

Weirs, culverts and sluices among 602 barriers demolished in year in attempt to restore 15,500 miles of rivers by 2030A few miles downstream from a lava field in western Iceland, the gargle of free-flowing water is unbroken for the first time in decades after hydraulic peckers chipped away at a dila...

Ajit Niranjan
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JPMorgan banker countersues accuser, says sexual assault 'lies' ruined her life
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JPMorgan banker countersues accuser, says sexual assault 'lies' ruined her life

Investment banker Lorna Hajdini says ex-colleague Chirayu Rana’s ‘malicious’ allegations ‘wreaked havoc’The JPMorgan Chase investment banker accused of sexual assault in an explosive lawsuit that went viral countersued her accuser, saying his malicious lies destroyed her reputation and “wreaked havo...

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