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Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn - FT (No paywall)  
  

Assessments suggest Kremlin agents preparing covert bombings, arson and attacks on infrastructure


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How Goldman Sachs grew up: 25 years since Wall Street's elite firm went public - FT (No paywall)  
  

Lloyd Blankfein, Hank Paulson, David Solomon and others on what has changed since its seminal listing in 1999






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The lessons from colleges that didn't call the police  
  

For weeks, police have been arriving on college campuses from New York to California at the behest of university officials, sweeping pro-Palestinian protests and arresting more than 2,100 people. They’ve come in riot gear, zip-tied students and hauled them off, and in some high-profile instances, acted violently.


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The U.S. Is Flooded With Fake Botox. Here's What to Watch Out For.  
  

In 2021, police officers arrested a woman after she offered undercover agents counterfeit Botox injections in a makeshift medical office she had set up in a Los Angeles hotel room. A year later, a California-based doctor pleaded guilty to hiding from patients that the drugs she had injected them with were not name-brand Botox, but unapproved versions she bought online.




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'Big downside revisions coming': A famed economist who called the 2008 recession warns jobs data will shockingly turn sour in the next 6 months -- and says a stock-market AI bubble is starting to unravel - Business Insider (No paywall)  
  

April's jobs report fell short of expectations: The Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday that the US economy added 175,000 jobs last month, shy of economists' forecasts for 238,000 and well below the 274,000 average jobs added per month from December to March.


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Xi Visits Europe, Seeking Strategic Opportunity  
  

“For Xi, being in Belgrade is a very economical way to ask if the United States is really serious about international law,” said Janka Oertel, the director of the Asia program at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, “and to say, how about NATO overreach as a problem for other countries?”




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DNA Tests and Stranded Bodies: Ukraine?s Struggle to Name Its Dead  
  

Families, lawyers and rights groups say that the Ukrainian military is simply overloaded with casualties and unable to account for thousands of the dead, adding to the anguish of soldiers’ families.


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'I'm in awe of our young people': How Georgia's Gen Z are taking on teargas, rubber bullets and the threat of arrest  
  

Spring 2024 has been marked by an unprecedented outcry. Given that our population is less than 4 million (a million Georgians have emigrated, mainly to western countries), the sight of thousands of protesters on the streets of several cities must be alarming for the government.




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Middle East crisis live: Hamas wants peace but 'not at any price', official says; Netanyahu cabinet votes to close Al Jazeera in Israel  
  

Israel this week briefed the Joe Biden administration officials on a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of a potential operation in Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's 2.3 million population has sought shelter from Israeli bombardment elsewhere. The officials told the Associated Press that the plan detailed by the Israelis did not change the US administration's view that moving forward with an operation in the southern Gaza city would put too many Palestinian civilians at risk.


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'I was happy they still stand beside us': Palestinians in Rafah on US campus protests  
  

Messages to the protesters were scrawled on a handful of tents in the camp, with one reading: "Thank you students in solidarity with Gaza. Your message has reached us. Thank you students of Columbia. Thank you students".




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Gallows Humor and Talk of Escape: Trump?s Possible Return Rattles Capital  
  

That’s all fine with Mr. Trump and his allies. In their view, Washington’s fear is the point. He is the disrupter of the elite. He is coming to break up their corrupt “uniparty” hold on power. If establishment Washington is upset about the possibility that he returns, that is a selling point to his base around the country that is alienated from the people in power.


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How One Latino Pastor Became a Foot Soldier for Trump  
  

Donald J. Trump is now reaping the rewards of that work. Polls show his support among Hispanic voters hitting levels not seen for a Republican president in 20 years. If he wins the White House, he will have people like Mr. Perez — little-known figures with underappreciated power — to thank.




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A FAFSA Fiasco Has Students Still Asking: Which College Can They Afford?  
  

FAFSA is a free, standardized application for federal aid for college tuition that millions rely on. Students fill out one form, with details on their background and household income, to request tuition information for the schools they list.


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When Prison and Mental Illness Amount to a Death Sentence  
  

The country’s jails and prisons have become its largest provider of inpatient mental health treatment, with 10 times as many seriously mentally ill people now held behind bars as in hospitals. Estimating the population of incarcerated people with major psychological problems is difficult, but the number is likely 200,000 to 300,000, experts say.




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Chief Counsel at R.N.C. Pushed Out After Two Months on the Job  
  

Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman


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Northern Ireland: Why Brexit isn't 'done' for some  
  

The potential for them to become a focus of political disagreement is obvious: between unionists and nationalists in the assembly, between the local parties and the UK government and between the UK and the EU.




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Opinion | I Love Facebook. That?s Why I?m Suing Meta.  
  

Unfortunately, Mr. Barclay was forced by Facebook to remove the software. Large social media platforms appear to be increasingly resistant to third-party tools that give users more command over their experiences. Many of them, in fact, have stopped supporting third-party tools directly.


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Organizers Hope Music Puts the Miami in the Miami Grand Prix  
  

At the third annual Miami Grand Prix, Marc Anthony, the four-time Grammy-winning Latin singer, will perform the national anthem; Kaytranada, an EDM producer born in Haiti, will play at the end of the race. Weekend performances at a festival-like venue near the racetrack included the Puerto Rican rapper Don Omar and the Miami-born D.J. Steve Aoki.


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Free Madonna concert draws crowd of 1.6m to Brazil's Copacabana beach  
  

Rio's state and city governments said they spent 20m reais (£3.1m) on the concert, while the rest was financed by private sponsors. The authorities estimate the concert could bring in about 300m reais (£47m) to Rio's economy.


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Two charged with murder after allegedly torturing Brisbane man at Queensland property  
  

They were both charged with multiple offences including murder, deprivation of liberty, disabling in order to commit indictable offence, grievous bodily harm, making observations or recordings in breach of privacy, torture, wounding and unlawful possession of weapons.


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Sydney on track to receive month's worth of rain in first week of May, bureau warns  
  

Parts of parched Western Australia were coming to the close of a welcome wet week, with the wheatbelt town of Wandering recording its highest May rainfall in more than 82 years and the most rainfall the town had seen in 13 months, according to Weatherzone.


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Only 30 of 500 family violence workers promised by Labor have been delivered, minister says  
  

Gallagher said that some new spending was “unavoidable”, including investing in information and communication technology and preventing programs including public dental and cancer programs from expiring.


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Perth stabbing: police shoot dead boy, 16, after alleged attack that has 'hallmarks' of terror incident  
  

"We are once again saddened to learn of another knife attack in which innocent civilians were harmed," Tahir said. "It should be made very clear that there is no justification for such acts in Islam."


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'Alarming' number of lone children held in UK-run facilities in France  
  

"Individuals in detention are held in safe and decent conditions, and there are established procedures in place in every facility to monitor people's welfare and safeguarding needs. These facilities are subject to inspection by the HM chief inspector of prisons, accompanied by their French counterpart, to ensure they are of the highest standards."


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Prisons 'sleepwalking into crisis' as inmates forced to share single cells  
  

An MoJ spokesperson said: "We are delivering the biggest prison expansion since the Victorian era - including two prisons in two years - to help rehabilitate offenders and keep our streets safe. We will always ensure there is enough capacity to serve the outcome of the courts and keep dangerous offenders behind bars, and cells are only doubled up where it is safe to do so.


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EU at risk of 'implosion' as far-right seeks scapegoats, minister warns  
  

"I think that's the most important political message of this campaign. I think the failure of the Green Deal wouldn't just be a failure for Europe; it would be a failure for Europe's citizens and for their opportunities."


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Braverman tells Sunak to 'own' dismal election results and 'fix it' but says it's too late for Tories to change leader- UK politics live  
  

I just don't think that is a feasible prospect right now, we don't have enough time and it is impossible for anyone new to come and change our fortunes to be honest. There is no superman or superwoman out there who can do it.


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Suella Braverman says no time to oust Sunak so he must 'own this and fix it'  
  

Pat McFadden, Labour's elections chief, said there were "tremendous results" overall but acknowledged the party's approach to Gaza had been a factor in losing councillors in some areas. He said there was "a mood of change in the country and we have to meet it".


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UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts  
  

Adi said that his experience of teaching Black history and race-related studies in the classroom shows that there is a desire for these topics to be taught. He taught a first-year module about Africa and the African diaspora at Chichester University, where his hundreds-strong cohort was mostly white students. “They voted [it] ‘module of the year’,” he said.


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'We're so much more than that': Stormzy opens #MerkyFC HQ centre to tackle racial inequality in football jobs  
  

"In five years I hope that I'm seeing someone - maybe I'm doing something for Sky Sports, or a game at Old Trafford or I go to the Champions League final - and someone taps me on my shoulder and says, 'I was year two of MerkyFC'.




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