Month: June 2025
New Zealand freezes millions in aid to Cook Islands over China ties
New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over agreements the smaller Pacific nation made with China, officials in Wellington said Thursday
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Elon Musk posts new drug test results and insists reporters should do the same
‘Now let’s see their drug test results. They will fail,’ Musk said, demanding that New York Times reporters get tested
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Cradock Four: South Africa opens new inquiry into apartheid-era torture and killings
Four Black men abducted, tortured and killed 40 years ago this month by apartheid-era security forces in South Africa
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New Zealand approves use of ‘magic mushrooms’ to treat depression but only one psychiatrist is allowed to prescribe it
New Zealand approves restricted medicinal use of psilocybin, a hallucinogen found in ‘magic mushrooms’ for patients with treatment-resistant depression
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‘You go to bed… and wake up with £200m’: Lottery adviser on how life will change for Euromillions winner
Less than 20 people in the UK have won lottery prizes of more than £100 million – here’s what they spend their winnings on
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‘My son went to get flour. He came back in a coffin’: As the world focuses on Iran Palestinians are being shot dead seeking aid
While the world has its attention fixed on a regional war, desperate Palestinians are being killed by the dozen as they seek food at controversial American-run aid sites in Gaza, write Bel Trew and Richard Hall
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Putin sends warning to Germany over Ukraine supplies: ‘Serious damage’
Vladimir Putin has warned Germany against supplying Ukraine with missiles, stating that it would do “serious damage” to the two nations’ relationship.
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Archaeologists piece together plaster fragments into wall painting from ‘Beverly Hills of Roman London’
Birds, fruit, flowers and ancient graffiti discovered on 2,000-year-old wall paintings
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America set to open Texas ‘fly factory’ in bid to breed millions of insects
The plan is to breed millions of the insects near the border with Mexico
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Singapore Airlines flight diverted after business class passenger with severe shellfish allergy served shrimp
Exclusive: New York City pediatrician Doreen Benary was rushed to the hospital following an emergency landing in Paris
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