Obama takes aim at companies cutting deals with Trump: ‘We have capacity to take a stand’

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Universities, law firms and businesses that have changed course should have stood by convictions, says ex-president

Barack Obama took aim at institutions and businesses who made deals or worked out settlements with the Trump administration, noting on a new podcast episode: “We all have this capacity, I think, to take a stand.”

In a talk with Marc Maron on the comedian’s last edition of his long-running WTF With Marc Maron, the former US president said institutions – including law firms, universities and businesses – that have changed course during the Trump administration should have stood by their convictions.

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Government made ‘every effort’ to support China spying trial, says minister

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Dan Jarvis accuses Tories of suggesting case was deliberately abandoned ‘without a shred of evidence’

The government made “every effort” to support the trial of two men accused of spying for China, a minister has said, as he accused the Tories of claiming the case was deliberately abandoned “without a shred of evidence”.

Dan Jarvis, the security minister, issued a robust defence of Jonathan Powell in the Commons after reports that Keir Starmer’s national security adviser played a role in the collapse of the case.

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Carmakers chose to cheat to sell cars rather than comply with emissions law, ‘dieselgate’ trial told

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Mercedes, Ford, Renault, Nissan and Peugeot/Citroën face group action in which damages could exceed £6bn

Car manufacturers decided they would rather cheat to prioritise “customer convenience” and sell cars than comply with the law on deadly pollutants, the first day of the largest group action trial in English legal history has been told.

More than a decade after the original “dieselgate” scandal broke, lawyers representing 1.6 million diesel car owners in the UK argue that manufacturers deliberately installed software to rig emissions tests.

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Trump Speaks at Egypt Peace Summit; Living Israeli Hostages Freed: Israel-Gaza Live Updates – The Wall Street Journal

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  1. Trump Speaks at Egypt Peace Summit; Living Israeli Hostages Freed: Israel-Gaza Live Updates  The Wall Street Journal
  2. Live updates: Israel-Gaza war; Hostages released as Trump addresses Israeli parliament  CNN
  3. LIVE: After Israel-Hamas prisoner swap, world leaders sign Gaza deal  Al Jazeera
  4. Trump, world leaders gather in Egypt for ceasefire deal signing with Netanyahu absent  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
  5. Trump celebrates peace in the Middle East after signing Gaza deal: 'Achieved the impossible'  Fox News
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Trump Speaks at Egypt Peace Summit; Living Israeli Hostages Freed: Israel-Gaza Live Updates – The Wall Street Journal

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  1. Trump Speaks at Egypt Peace Summit; Living Israeli Hostages Freed: Israel-Gaza Live Updates  The Wall Street Journal
  2. Live updates: Israel-Gaza war; Hostages released as Trump addresses Israeli parliament  CNN
  3. LIVE: After Israel-Hamas prisoner swap, world leaders sign Gaza deal  Al Jazeera
  4. Trump, world leaders gather in Egypt for ceasefire deal signing with Netanyahu absent  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
  5. Trump celebrates peace in the Middle East after signing Gaza deal: 'Achieved the impossible'  Fox News
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy ordered to go to jail next week

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Sarkozy must go to La Santé prison in Paris after conviction over scheme to obtain election funds from Gaddafi regime

The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to go to jail in Paris next week after a court last month sentenced him to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Sarkozy, who was the rightwing president of France between 2007 and 2012, was summoned to meet state prosecutors on Monday. They told him he must present himself at the entrance of La Santé prison in the south of Paris on 21 October to begin his sentence.

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Vodafone outage: thousands of broadband and mobile users report problems

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Company apologises and says network ‘recovering’ after many customers say there were unable to access services

Tens of thousands of Vodafone customers in the UK have reported they could not access services including the internet and making mobile phone calls.

Consumers started reporting problems on the website of the outage monitor Downdetector from about 3pm on Monday.

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Majority of special education staff in US education department laid off – report

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Layoffs ‘decimating’ office responsible for protecting rights of infants, children and youth with disabilities, says worker

The majority of staff in the education department handling special education has been laid off, according to multiple reports.

Friday’s total of 466 layoffs across the education department also impacted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which oversees programs that support millions of children and adults with disabilities nationwide, according to sources speaking to various outlets.

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China’s Temu more than doubles EU profits to nearly $120m despite having only eight staff

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Online marketplace paid just $18m in corporation tax, leading campaigners to call for government action

The Chinese online marketplace Temu’s EU operations more than doubled pre-tax profits last year to just below $120m (£90m) despite employing just eight people, accounts show.

They rose 171% in the 12 months to December 2024 compared with the $44.1m the year before, as shoppers snapped up its low-cost goods, which are widely promoted on social media.

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Plane crashes on to Massachusetts highway and kills two people on board

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Blazing debris on road amid rain and wind, with one person on ground hurt and no known survivors found on plane

A small plane crashed along a major highway in south-eastern Massachusetts early on Monday amid rain and strong winds, killing both people on board and wounding another person on the ground, authorities said.

In videos taken by people in passing vehicles, smoke could be seen billowing up above Interstate 195 from scattered, blazing debris. The highway was closed in both directions near the crash site in Dartmouth, a town about 50 miles (80km) miles south of Boston, the state department of transportation said.

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Live updates: Trump says war in Gaza ‘is over,’ arrives in Egypt as Israel celebrates release of hostages – The Washington Post

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  1. Live updates: Trump says war in Gaza ‘is over,’ arrives in Egypt as Israel celebrates release of hostages  The Washington Post
  2. Trump’s insistence produced a ceasefire in Gaza. Now he hopes it will end the war  CNN
  3. The Release of Israeli Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners in Photos and Videos  The New York Times
  4. President Trump Delivers Remarks to Israeli Knesset  C-SPAN
  5. Fetterman marks release of last living hostages: 'The nightmare finally ends'  Fox News
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