‘It has broken us as a family,’ mother of poison seller victim tells hearing – BBC

  1. 'It has broken us as a family,' mother of poison seller victim tells hearing  BBC
  2. Families describe grief as Canadian seller linked to suicides worldwide faces sentencing  AP News
  3. Suicide-drug seller ‘robbed victim of chance to be well’  The Telegraph
  4. 'I'm sorry, I drank it': Mother recalls daughter's last words at Kenneth Law's sentencing hearing  CBC
  5. A timeline of key events in the case of Kenneth Law, who admitted to aiding suicides  Global News
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Four civilians killed in Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan, Taliban says – BBC

  1. Four civilians killed in Pakistani strikes in Afghanistan, Taliban says  BBC
  2. Pakistani airstrikes target Afghanistan after Islamabad accuses Kabul of drone attacks  AP News
  3. Pakistan air strikes kill 4 civilians in Afghanistan, Kabul says  Reuters
  4. Afghanistan vows to respond after Pakistani air strikes kill four  Al Jazeera
  5. What's behind the Pakistani strikes on Afghanistan?  Yahoo
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Trump swoons over strongman soulmate Xi – are you feeling jealous, Vladimir?

Deference was deafening as US president rolled out red carpet for world’s biggest jailer of journalists – perhaps he was seeking tips

One is an authoritarian who represses the media with a strong allergy to democratic elections. The other is head of the Chinese Communist party.

Donald Trump welcomed the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, to the White House on Thursday, setting the stage for a scene quite unlike anything the august old building has seen over more than two centuries.

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EU sanctions former RT France chief Xenia Fedorova over pro-Russian propaganda – Euronews.com

  1. EU sanctions former RT France chief Xenia Fedorova over pro-Russian propaganda  Euronews.com
  2. EU sanctions Russian pundit Xenia Fedorova after expulsion from France  France 24
  3. Russia says EU sanctions on former RT boss are illegal  Devdiscourse
  4. Kremlin slams EU sanctions on Russian TV commentator as ‘persecution’  Macau Business
  5. France steps up efforts to counter russian propaganda  Центр протидії дезінформації
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Democratic lawmakers accuse Trump administration of interference in Brazilian elections

Legislators sent letter to Marco Rubio saying US interference is weakening Brazil’s democratic institutions

A group of 31 Democratic members of the US Congress has sent a letter to the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, criticising the Trump administration over “an apparent effort to interfere with, and potentially undermine” Brazil’s elections.

Latin America’s largest country will hold the first round of its presidential election on 4 October, with polls showing a technical tie between the incumbent leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the far-right senator Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Ukrainians in UK fear homelessness over host scheme funding cuts

Monthly ‘thank you’ payments for people hosting refugees to be cut from £350 to £100 from next year

Ukrainian refugees in the UK fear they could be left homeless after the government quietly axed 70% of funding for hosts of the Homes for Ukraine scheme, reducing monthly “thank you” payments to them from £350 to £100.

The scheme was launched after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has provided support for 181,000 of the 234,000 Ukrainians who have since sought sanctuary in the UK.

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France says EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ law should not include the UK

‘If you’re not in the internal market, you don’t get the same protection,’ says French minister of policy designed to curb Chinese competition

France is leading a push to exclude the UK from the EU’s “Made in Europe” policy that could result in British companies losing out in the race to supply European countries with low-carbon technologies and electric cars.

The plans were raised by Andy Burnham when he met the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly earlier this week.

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