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‘Feels like we’ve gone backwards’: Indonesia’s choking haze provides spark for wider protests
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‘Feels like we’ve gone backwards’: Indonesia’s choking haze provides spark for wider protests

After two years, President Prabowo Subianto is struggling with economic malaise, policy blunders and a devastating fire season in the world’s third-largest democracy As almost 2m hectares has gone up in smoke in Indonesia’s worst fire season in a decade, enveloping the region in a thick dystopian haze, 33-year-old university researcher Nurul Amalia has grown increasingly exasperated. But we have yet to see any significant progress,” she says.

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Microsoft profits soar days after announcing thousands of layoffs
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Microsoft profits soar days after announcing thousands of layoffs

Big tech companies like Amazon, Meta and Alphabet are expected to spend more than $700bn this year on AI chips and infrastructure like data centres. This week, the company said it would extend a voluntary redundancy offer to eligible employees in teams across Canada, India, the UK and US to adapt its workforce to “changing needs”.

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ALTON urges states to scrap telecoms right-of-way fees
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ALTON urges states to scrap telecoms right-of-way fees

Association says charges account for up to 60% of fibre deployment costs By Chidinma Chukwu, Abuja The Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has urged state governments to abolish right-of-way charges on telecommunications infrastructure, warning that the fees account for up to 60 per cent of fibre-optic deployment costs in some states and discourage network expansion into underserved communities. Gbenga Adebayo, made the call on Tuesday on the sidelines of a plenary session sponsored by IHS Nigeria at the 2026 Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja.

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California weather is ‘well into extreme territory’ with historic high tides
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California weather is ‘well into extreme territory’ with historic high tides

Seawater surges into low-lying communities from San Diego to San Francisco Bay Area, submerging streets, homes and businesses Historic high tides have caused chaos up and down the California coast this week, as parts of the state were inundated by record-breaking water levels. Seawater surged into low-lying communities from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area, submerging streets, flooding homes and businesses, and jamming important transportation corridors and train routes.

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Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice review – a family’s astonishing bravery helped make history
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Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice review – a family’s astonishing bravery helped make history

When Robert McCartney was killed in a bar brawl involving members of the Provisional IRA in Belfast in 2005, his five sisters refused to be intimidated. He was trying to extricate his friend Brendan Devine from a brawl involving members of the local Provisional IRA at Magennis’s bar in the nationalist Short Strand area of Belfast, where the McCartney family had lived for five generations.

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Bolsonaro claims he is Brazil’s true leader after fleeing to US
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Bolsonaro claims he is Brazil’s true leader after fleeing to US

Brazil’s defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro insisted Wednesday he is his country’s rightful leader after arriving in the United States to start a self-imposed exile. President Donald Trump’s hard-right administration has strong links to Bolsonaro and his father Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest in Brazil after attempting to overturn his own electoral loss to Lula in 2022.

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Solid Minerals: FG Inaugurates Nigeria-US Committee On Strategic Cooperation
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Solid Minerals: FG Inaugurates Nigeria-US Committee On Strategic Cooperation

The Federal Government has inaugurated the Nigeria-United States Committee on Strategic Cooperation in the Solid Minerals Sector in Abuja to advance the partnership with the US. The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assembly between Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, and the US Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau, at the Nigerian Mission House in New York, United States.

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No ministers paid billions for appointments, APC insists
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No ministers paid billions for appointments, APC insists

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Wednesday, denied claims that ministers pay billions of Naira to secure appointments, saying comments made by its Presidential Campaign Council spokesperson, Alwan Hassan, referred to historical practices rather than the current administration. Reacting to the statement, which has generated backlash, National Publicity Secretary of APC, Felix Morka, questioned how ministers who allegedly paid billions to secure appointments would recover such sums within Nigeria’s budgetary framework.

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