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'Fewer and fewer': Dry summer hits Italy truffle season
After an excessively dry summer, black truffles are becoming few and far between in the misty hills of the Piedmont region in northern Italy.
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A Table for Fortune by William T Vollmann review – a hugely ambitious 3,000-page portrait of America’s decline
This insider’s history of the CIA explores the last 50 years of US foreign policy with granular detail and mordant humour
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Merry Christmas Aubrey Flint review – Dickensian festive Britpic decorated by selection box of familiar faces
A cast including Richard E Grant, Celia Imrie, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Nigel Planer warm up a formulaic narrative about a imperilled retirement community
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Bangladesh to increase garment sector pay: wage board
Bangladesh's garment industry wage board said on Wednesday it had agreed to raise the minimum wage for workers in the key export sector, following five days of protests and sporadic clashes.
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Four oil tankers destroyed in Hormuz after hitting mines, Tehran says
Four oil tankers caught fire after hitting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran claimed Wednesday, a day after US President Donald Trump said the United States had launched strikes on Iran. Discussions…
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Progressive Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate race to become first Muslim US senator
Democrat defeats Mike Rogers in race marked by Islamophobic attacks from Trump and Republican allies
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Australian government defends social media ban for under 16s in court
Government lawyers argued that social media use posed risks to children, and action is needed to protect them.
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Australian government defends social media ban for under 16s in court
Government lawyers argued that social media use posed risks to children, and action is needed to protect them.
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Palestinians return to ruined Hebron homes after Israel’s 10-day siege
Returning Hebron residents face significant economic and structural devastation after Israeli military operation.
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Palestinians return to ruined Hebron homes after Israel’s 10-day siege
Returning Hebron residents face significant economic and structural devastation after Israeli military operation.
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Resounding wins for Democrats a wholesale rebuke of Trump’s Maga movement
Democrats of all stripes declared victory on Tuesday night in clearest sign yet voters have had enough of Trumpism
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Sydney Swans player Tom Papley allegedly returns positive roadside drug test
Club says AFL star forward returned ‘positive preliminary test indication’ and that NSW police issued a notice for driving with a suspended licence
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