Paul SeddonPolitical reporter
Getty ImagesCouncils across England are to be given more extensive powers to fine motorists who cause disruption by parking on the pavement.
The new powers are due to take effect later this year, alongside guidance on…
Category: 4. World
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Hundreds of nonconsensual AI images being created by Grok on X, data shows | Grok AI
New research that samples X users prompting Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok demonstrates how frequently people are creating sexualized images with it. Nearly three-quarters of posts collected and analyzed by a PhD researcher at Dublin’s Trinity…
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'Appalling' and 'nonsense': Republicans push back against Trump’s Greenland plans
Donald Trump’s proposal to take control of Greenland faces opposition not just in Europe, but in the US – even in Trump’s own Republican Party.
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Germany’s dying forests are losing their ability to absorb CO2. Can a new way of planting save them? | Germany
Even the intense green of late spring cannot mask the dead trees in the Harz mountains. Standing upright across the gentle peaks in northern Germany, thousands of skeletal trunks mark the remnants of a once great spruce forest.
Since 2018, the…
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Trump’s Venezuela incursion has nothing to do with its freedom | Judith Levine
Whatever else the US attack on Venezuela is ostensibly about – oil, drugs, communism – it’s not about the freedom of the Venezuelan people.
If Trump cared about that, he would not have lifted the temporary protective status of the roughly…
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Lebanon says first phase of plan to disarm Hezbollah completed, but Netanyahu warns progress ‘far from sufficient’
Lebanon on Thursday announced that it has completed the first phase of its plan to disarm Hezbollah and other militant groups in the country’s south, but Israel said the progress was “far from sufficient”…
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Two teenage boys held as Dutch police probe alleged ‘snowball beating’ death
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Dutch police arrested two teenaged boys on Thursday as they investigate the death of a 60-year-old man they believe was possibly assaulted after a row…
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