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From a fabricated sex scandal to a fake museum heist, disinformation aimed at influencing Germany’s high-stakes election is originating from dozens of AI-generated German sites apparently linked to a US fugitive turned Kremlin propagandist, researchers say.John Dougan runs a network of more than 100 such fake sites, which mimic German media outlets, mirroring a disinformation …

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Dozens of dolphins have died after a pod of more than 150 stranded on a remote beach in Australia’s southern island of Tasmania, environment officials said Wednesday.A pod of 157 dolphins from a poorly understood deep-sea species was believed to have stranded in the past 48 hours — with “approximately 90” still alive as of …

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Vietnam’s parliament on Wednesday approved plans for an $8 billion rail link from its largest northern port city to the border with China, boosting links between the two communist-ruled countries and making trade easier.The new rail line will run through some of Vietnam’s key manufacturing hubs, home to Samsung, Foxconn, Pegatron and other global giants, …

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Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze has halted vital projects in the South Pacific, aid workers and analysts say, risking lives and hurting US efforts to woo the region. Disaster-prone, isolated, and threatened by rising seas, tropical Pacific island states are some of the most aid-reliant nations on Earth, development agencies say. They are also at the centre …

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Bogus child pornography claims, fabricated support for communism and fake posts showing Elon Musk calling for his removal — a deluge of disinformation is targeting a top judge in suspended South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial.South Korea’s Constitutional Court has for weeks deliberated on whether to uphold a parliamentary vote to remove Yoon …

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A US judge on Tuesday declined a request to temporarily block Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from firing federal employees and accessing agency data, a victory for President Donald Trump in his bid to shrink the government workforce.Fourteen Democratic-ruled states had filed suit last week contesting Musk’s legal authority but District …

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Russia and the United States on Tuesday agreed to establish teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine after talks that drew a strong rebuke from Kyiv over its exclusion.Washington noted European nations would have to have a seat at the negotiating table “at some point”, following the first high-level official Washington-Moscow …

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Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro claimed Monday to have been the target of a plot to down his plane with missiles by “big mafias” irate at his government’s attempts to hunt them down.”They want to shoot a missile at my plane… not one, but two missiles. We know who they are,” the South American country’s first-ever leftist …

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Hamas and Israel announced a deal Tuesday for the release of six living hostages from Gaza and the return of four captives’ bodies — including, the militants said, the remains of two young boys seen as national symbols back home.The family of hostages Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel and Kfir, the last remaining Israeli …

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Japan Tuesday pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent in the next decade from 2013 levels but climate campaigners said the revised target fell short of what was needed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming.Under the Paris Agreement, each country is supposed to provide a steeper headline figure to the United …

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