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UK leader Starmer says he is 'furious' he wasn't told Peter Mandelson had failed security checks to be ambassador to US
Apr 17, 2026 - World 
UK leader Starmer says he is 'furious' he wasn't told Peter Mandelson had failed security checks to be ambassador to US
About 15 Latin American deportees from the US have arrived in Congo, lawyer says
Apr 17, 2026 - World 
About 15 Latin American deportees from the US have arrived in Congo, lawyer says
Sri Lanka sent home 238 Iranian sailors, including survivors of a US torpedo attack
Apr 17, 2026 - World 
Sri Lanka has sent home 238 Iranian sailors, including 32 who survived a U.S. torpedo attack in the Indian Ocean
US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret
Apr 17, 2026 - World 
Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groupsMicrosoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view written almost word for word into EU rules.The secrecy provision, which the European Commission added to its proposal almost verbatim after industry lobbying in 2024, hinders scrutiny of the pollution that individual datacentres emit. It leaves researchers with just national-level summaries of their energy footprints. Continue reading...
Woman stranded in Dusseldorf after return UK flight blocked over Home Office admin error
Apr 17, 2026 - World 
Liza Tobay, who lives in UK, was told her settled status had been ‘red flagged’ after trying to make a connecting flight from Munich to EdinburghA German woman has been separated from her two-year-old daughter in Edinburgh after a Home Office mistake left her stranded in Dusseldorf earlier this week.Liza Tobay, who has lived in the UK for 15 years, had taken her oldest child, a six-year-old boy, to visit his grandfather and some other relatives over Easter when confronted with what she said appeared to be “a serious administrative error”. Continue reading...
