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Federal judge dismisses Trump lawsuit seeking Harvard admissions data
Demand for individual applicant records as part of purported civil rights review fails on procedural grounds
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Trump says US will stop giving Israel aid after year-end
Military aid to Israel and campaign contributions from Israel's backers to US candidates has animated political debate.
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Trump says US will stop giving Israel aid after year-end
Military aid to Israel and campaign contributions from Israel’s backers to US candidates have animated political debate.
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Giro d'Italia to tackle three motor-racing circuits in 2027
Giro d'Italia organisers RCS revealed on Tuesday a "particularly tough" route for the race's 110th edition in 2017, taking in three motor racing circuits.
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Poland foils attempted 'provocation' on Russian border, PM Tusk says
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that Poland prevented an attempted "provocation" on its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad overnight. He gave few details but said Polish security…
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Ukraine-Russia truce spotlights rare thaw between top officials
Russia's human rights ombudsman Yana Lantratova nodded along as her counterpart from Kyiv, Dmytro Lubinets, spoke Ukrainian to brief the media about the longest truce between their warring countries.
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Finance
Car finance: Barclays becomes first big lender to offer payouts for mis-selling of loans
Bank to make ‘early settlement’ offers before outcome of legal battle, with those who accept likely to get money before Christmas Barclays will this month start offering compensation to tens of thousands of people who claim they were mis-sold car loans, with some of those who accept likely to see the money land in their account before Christmas. Amid an ongoing legal battle over an industry-wide compensation scheme for victims of the UK’s car finance scandal, Barclays has become the first big UK lender to break cover and begin offering payouts to some customers who have complained. Continue re
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Babies more likely to have heart defects from Louisiana’s areas with industrial pollution, study finds
Compared to infants in the state’s low-pollution areas, the odds were 4.3 times higher for babies from toxic hotspots
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Trump to remove Rwanda and South Africa from US trade deal
The move comes barely a week after Rwanda's defence ministry was hit with sanctions by the US Treasury.
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Russian bombing kills 31 people at Ukraine aid centre, Kyiv says
Officials say at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a southern Ukrainian village in what the president calls an "utterly horrific" attack.
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Spain says to work 'tirelessly' to restore trust in trains after disasters
Spain will work "tirelessly" to restore confidence in its high-speed trains, the transport minister said Tuesday, after a collision last week killed 69 people in the country's second such disaster this…
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Iran commander sets out five conditions for regional security
Mediator Qatar says US and Iran are studying proposals to resume negotiations and that it was 'hopeful' of an agreement.
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