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Book bans are accelerating across the country amid right-wing pressure campaign 2024-04-17
CNN

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. America’s right-wing forces would have you believe that they are the courageous entities standing up for free speech. But, as they...

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Prince William makes huge announcement, one month after Kate Middleton’s cancer revelation 2024-04-17
Newsner

Prince William has announced that he is returning to royal duties following a three-and-a-half week hiatus to spend time with his wife and children. According to reports, the engagement will be the Prince of Wales’s first since Kate Middleton revealed her cancer diagnosis in March. Not long...

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Viktor Orbán Calls for Change in EU’s Leadership and Migration Policies 2024-04-17
Hungary Today

During a public debate held at the European Parliament, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, along with former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Fabrice Leggeri, the former head the Frontex and leader of the French right-wing National Rally (RN) party, addressed pressing issues surrounding the...

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Australia Plans $32 Billion Defense Boost to Face New Risks 2024-04-17
Hindustan Times

Australia has pledged to increase spending on its military forces by A$50.3 billion over the next decade, with Defence Minister Richard Marles warning the country faces its “most complex strategic circumstances” since World War II. Australia Plans $32 Billion Defense Boost to Face New Risks...

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'PM is champion of corruption': Rahul Gandhi claims Modi interview 'scripted' 2024-04-17
Hindustan Times

Ghaziabad: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi “the champion of corruption”. Reacting to PM Modi's recent remarks on the scrapped electoral bonds scheme, Gandhi said it was the “biggest extortion scheme in the world”. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and...

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Aboard France’s aging nuclear submarines — old boats but new missions 2024-04-17
Stars and Stripes

TOULOUSE, France — Once again, the oceans beckon for France’s veteran nuclear-powered attack submarines. The Associated Press got rare access aboard a French navy Rubis-class submarine as it was being readied for another mission in sprawling naval dockyards in the Mediterranean port of Toulon....

photo: US Navy / Joshua Karsten

Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest amid heatwave 2024-04-17
Al Jazeera

Myanmar’s jailed former leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure amid a severe heatwave, the military has said. Major General Zaw Min Tun told foreign media on Tuesday that Aung San Suu Kyi and the president of her toppled government,...

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UN envoy lashes out at Libya’s feuding parties and their foreign backers, then says he’s resigned 2024-04-17
Wtop

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, lashed out at the country’s feuding parties and their foreign backers at a U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday and then confirmed he had submitted his resignation. The former Senegalese minister and U.N. diplomat, who has held the...

photo: UN / Rick Bajornas

Trump to meet with Polish president Duda as NATO leaders call for additional support for Ukraine 2024-04-17
Wtop

NEW YORK (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York. The planned dinner meeting, confirmed by a person familiar with the matter, comes as European leaders prepare for the possibility that Trump...

photo: White House / Tia Dufour

'Colossal' floods heading for Russian city 2024-04-16
Saudi Gazette

MOSCOW — A "colossal" amount of water is moving towards the Russian city of Kurgan, the region's governor has said.Vadim Shumkov said that the swollen Tobol river and its tributaries had ......

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