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Air India crash probe focuses on actions of plane's captain, WSJ reports

A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

July 18, 2025 8:04 am
 

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Meta investors, Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over Facebook privacy violations

Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab agreed on Thursday to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday.

July 18, 2025 6:07 am
 

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New details in Air India crash probe shift focus to senior pilot

A black-box recording of dialogue between the Air India flight’s two pilots indicates it was the captain who turned off switches that controlled fuel flowing to the plane’s two engines.

July 17, 2025 2:11 pm
 

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ICC judges reject Israel's request to withdraw Netanyahu arrest warrant

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) rejected Israel’s request to withdraw arrest warrants against its prime minister and former defence minister while the ICC reviews Israeli challenges to its jurisdiction over the conduct of the Gaza war.

July 17, 2025 1:14 pm
 

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Brazil tackles COP30 hotel costs, under pressure

Brazil assured worried governments it has organized enough rooms to accommodate the tens of thousands of people.

July 17, 2025 12:21 pm
 

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Violence erupts at Bangladesh youth rally, media report four killed

Violence erupted on Wednesday at a rally of Bangladesh’s youth-led National Citizen Party in the southern town of Gopalganj, with four people killed and more injured according to local media.

July 17, 2025 12:19 pm
 

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Merz visits UK as Europe closes ranks in face of threats

Friedrich Merz embarks on his first trip to London as German chancellor to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and sign a wide-ranging friendship treaty, as part of a broader push to reset the EU’s relationship with Britain.

July 17, 2025 11:03 am
 

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Earthquake of magnitude 7.1 strikes Alaska Peninsula

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Alaska Peninsula, on Wednesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

July 17, 2025 10:54 am
 

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20 killed in Gaza

Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from being trampled, the group said. They were the first deaths reported at one of the group’s sites, though hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces on the roads leading to them, according to witnesses and health officials.

July 17, 2025 9:07 am
 

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Israel launches heavy airstrikes in Damascus, vowing to protect Druze

Israel launched powerful airstrikes in Damascus on Wednesday, blowing up part of the defence ministry and hitting near the presidential palace as it vowed to destroy government forces attacking Druze in southern Syria and demanded they withdraw.

July 17, 2025 6:33 am
 

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Ukraine celebrates Trump's weapons reversal

President Donald Trump has finally found a way to like arming Ukraine: ask European allies to donate their weapons, and sell them American replacements.

July 16, 2025 5:23 pm
 

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Fewer school-age children vaping in Australia since ban

School-age children in Australia are vaping less, research suggests, a year after a government ban on disposable vapes came into effect.

July 16, 2025 4:33 pm

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