Elon Musk outlined plans Wednesday for his new role as “efficiency” czar — signaling an assault on federal spending and staffing that would be backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s executive powers and a conservative Supreme Court.Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the world’s richest man said he was taking aim at hundreds of billions of …
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday recognized Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the president-elect of the country, a day after the United States officially did the same.Meloni spoke after a meeting with Argentina’s President Javier Milei in Buenos Aires.”Together with the European Union, we are working for a peaceful and democratic transition …
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Mali’s junta chief on Wednesday sacked civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga and the government, days after Maiga issued a rare criticism of the military rulers.The West African country, plagued by jihadist and separatist violence, has been led by the military since back-to-back coups in 2020 and 2021.Maiga, who was appointed by the military after …
Family and friends of One Direction star Liam Payne, who died last month after falling from a Buenos Aires hotel room, gathered for his funeral in Britain on Wednesday.Payne’s former bandmates Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson were among the dozens of mourners at the private service at St Mary’s Church in Amersham, …
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Ukraine has fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time, British media reported Wednesday, after being given the green light from London.Several missiles were launched against at least one Russian military target, The Financial Times said, citing an unidentified Western official.The Times said government sources had confirmed the use of the long-range …
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Elon Musk outlined plans Wednesday for his new role as “efficiency” czar — signaling an assault on federal spending and staffing that would be backed by President-elect Donald Trump’s executive powers and a conservative Supreme Court.In the Wall Street Journal, the world’s richest man said he was taking aim at hundreds of billions of dollars …
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Spain’s under-fire ecological transition minister, a candidate for a top European Commission post, said Wednesday that questioning the role of state agencies during the country’s devastating floods was “dangerous”.The state weather and environment services have faced intense scrutiny over their response to the October 29 disaster that killed 227 people and wreaked widespread destruction.The European …
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Low-cost airline Ryanair threatened Wednesday to stop serving 10 French regional airports if the government goes forward with a proposed tax hike. The French government is scrambling to plug a larger-than-expected budget deficit, and a tripling of a tax on airline tickets, as well as private jets, is one of the measures currently under consideration.”Ryanair is …
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The Western “Rust” got its world premiere on Wednesday at a Polish film festival, three years after its cinematographer was killed in an on-set shooting.Hollywood star Alec Baldwin was accused of violating gun safety rules in the 2021 death of Halyna Hutchins, but his involuntary manslaughter trial collapsed earlier this year.Hutchins’s mother refused to attend …
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The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council push to call for a ceasefire in Gaza that Washington said would have emboldened Hamas.The resolution demanded “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in the war between Israel and the Palestinian group, along with “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”But Israel’s UN ambassador …
