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Amid fragile ceasefire, Trump promises to boost trade with India and Pakistan
Truce agreement was reached after diplomacy and pressure from US but within hours there was cross-border shelling
A fragile ceasefire was holding between India and Pakistan on Sunday, after hours of overnight fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours, as US president Donald Trump said he would work to provide a solution regarding Kashmir.
The arch-rivals were involved in intense firing for four days, the worst in nearly three decades, with missiles and drones being fired at each other’s military installations and dozens of people killed.
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European football: Sørloth hits four-minute hat-trick for Atlético Madrid
- Atlético striker completes treble in first 11 minutes
- Kane scores as Bayern lift Bundesliga trophy
Alexander Sørloth scored four goals inside 30 minutes in a 4-0 home win for Atlético Madrid over Real Sociedad.
The Norwegian forward completed his treble in the opening 11 minutes, the earliest ever in the competition, before adding a fourth goal to seal the rout on the half-hour. He opened the scoring in the seventh minute and took just three minutes and 57 seconds to wrap up his hat-trick.
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Giro d’Italia: Josh Tarling edges out Roglic for time-trial victory in Tirana
- 21-year-old wins stage two by 1sec; Roglic takes overall lead
- Demi Vollering retains La Vuelta Femenina title
Josh Tarling of Ineos Grenadiers set a time-trial pace even the race favourite, Primoz Roglic, could not match to win stage two of the Giro d’Italia by one second in Albania on Saturday. Tarling had a nervous wait before his first Grand Tour stage victory was confirmed as the 21-year-old Welshman watched Roglic come so close, but the Slovene had to settle for second place with the consolation of taking over the leader’s pink jersey for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.
Jay Vine of UAE Team Emirates came third, the Australian finishing three seconds behind Tarling in the short 13.7km individual time-trial in Tirana. “To win is definitely exceptional,” Tarling said. In his second Grand Tour after failed to finish last year’s Vuelta A Espana Tarling became the youngest rider to win a Giro time-trial.
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Judge orders White House to temporarily halt sweeping government layoffs
San Francisco district judge says Congress did not authorize large-scale staffing cuts and restructuring of agencies
Donald Trump’s administration must temporarily halt its sweeping government overhaul because Congress did not authorize it to carry out large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies, a federal judge in California said on Friday.
US district judge Susan Illston in San Francisco sided with a group of unions, non-profits and local governments in blocking large-scale mass layoffs known as “reductions in force” for 14 days.
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India and Pakistan step up military strikes amid calls to de-escalate
Judge orders temporary halt to Trump administration’s government overhaul
Pakistan launches military offensive against India as conflict escalates
US considers special status for Greenland amid Trump push for control
Officials float idea of compact of free association (Cofa), used by US to keep close ties with Pacific Island nations
US officials are discussing a plan to pull Greenland into America’s sphere of influence using a type of agreement that the United States has used to keep close ties with several Pacific Island nations, according to two US officials and another person familiar with the discussions.
Under the plan being considered, the Trump administration would propose to Greenland’s leaders that the island enter into a so-called compact of free association, or Cofa, with the United States.
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Giro d’Italia: Pedersen wins but Landa crashes out on opening stage in Tirana
- Danish rider holds off Van Aert in bunch sprint to line
- Mikel Landa abandons race after crash late in stage
Denmark’s former world champion Mads Pedersen edged out Wout van Aert in a bunch sprint to win the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia in Tirana, but Mikel Landa was forced to abandon the race after a crash five kilometres from the finish.
Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) was positioned perfectly by his teammates for the climax in the Albanian capital and held off Belgium’s Van Aert to become the first rider this year – and the first Dane – to wear the overall leader’s pink jersey. Venezuela’s Orluis Aular (Movistar) was third across the line.
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Google identifie un nouvel outil d'espionnage utilisé par un groupe de pirates russes
Google identifie un nouvel outil d'espionnage utilisé par un groupe de pirates russes
Nintendo anticipe une hausse de 13% de son bénéfice sur l'année et prévoit de vendre 15 mlns de Switch 2
Brazil rejects US request to designate two gangs as terrorist organizations
Security minister says US delegation wanted classification for PCC and Comando Vermelho to aid immigration policy
The Brazilian government has rejected a request by the US state department to designate two major criminal gangs as terrorist organizations, according to Mario Sarrubo, Brazil’s national secretary of public security.
Sarrubo said the request was made on Tuesday during a meeting between US and Brazilian officials in Brasília.
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Apple envisage d'intégrer les offres des spécialistes de l'IA dans Safari
Mistral AI a triplé son chiffre d'affaires sur les 100 derniers jours, dit son PDG
Uber: Le CA inférieur aux attentes au 1er trimestre éclipse des perspectives optimistes, le titre chute
L'exubérante Renault 5 Turbo 3E séduit jusqu'en Australie
Norwegian fan trades five kilos of fish for ticket to Bodø/Glimt v Tottenham
- Supporter with spare ticket took the bait over offer
- Around 50,000 supporters vying for just 480 seats
A Norwegian bartered five kilos of semi-dried fish for a ticket to Thursday’s semi-final clash between Bodø/Glimt and Tottenham in the Arctic Circle, as the hosts aim to become the first Norwegian club to reach a European final.
Some 50,000 fans were vying for just 480 remaining tickets to the second leg of Bodø/Glimt’s Europa League semi-final.
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Court clash between Meta and NSO ends in $168m defeat for spyware firm
Damages awarded after earlier ruling found NSO unlawfully exploited a bug in WhatsApp to spy on users
Meta Platforms won a $168m verdict against the Israeli surveillance firm NSO, the company said on Tuesday, capping a six-year arm-wrestling match between the US’s biggest social-networking platform and the world’s best-known spyware company.
Meta had already won after a December ruling found that NSO had unlawfully exploited a bug in its messaging service WhatsApp to plant spy software on its users’ phones. On Tuesday, a jury in California ruled that NSO owed Meta $444,719 in compensatory damages – and $167.3m in punitive damages, Meta said.
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Pentagon stopped Ukraine military aid shipments in February without Trump’s approval
Order to cancel 11 military aid flights – which were quickly reinstated – originated in defense head Pete Hegseth’s office
Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the US military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover air force base in Delaware and a US base in Qatar: stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry that were bound for Ukraine.
In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the US Transportation Command, known as TransCom, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?
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Barcelona boosted by Lewandowski return for semi-final clash with Inter
- Polish striker back from hamstring injury for second leg
- Inter have fitness doubts for Champions League tie
The Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has been declared fit to return from a hamstring injury but is set to start on the bench in their Champions League semi-final second leg at Inter on Tuesday, the Barça manager, Hansi Flick, confirmed.
The 36-year-old Polish international, who has scored 40 goals for Barcelona in all competitions this season, had been sidelined for his club’s last four games. After sustaining the injury during Barça’s 4-3 victory against Celta Vigo on 19 April, he missed the Copa del Rey final victory against Real Madrid and the first leg of the semi against Inter.
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Democratic-led states sue Trump for blocking wind energy projects
Lawsuit also filed over administration’s cuts to health and human services that destroy life-saving programs
A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general sued on Monday in an attempt to block Donald Trump’s move to suspend leasing and permitting of new wind projects, saying it threatens to cripple the wind industry and a key source of clean energy.
Seventeen states and the District of Columbia argued, in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston, that the decision by the Republican president’s administration to indefinitely pause all federal wind-energy approvals was unlawful and must be blocked.
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Atalanta fan stabbed to death in clashes with Inter supporters, police confirm
- Male in his late teens arrested over incident, say police
- Violence ‘must never happen again’, says Gasperini
A 26-year-old fan of Serie A side Atalanta was stabbed to death during clashes between Atalanta and Inter supporters in the northern city of Bergamo, Italy’s police said.
The groups of supporters clashed in a pub in Bergamo on Saturday night after one of the Inter supporters chanted provocatively, the head of the carabinieri office in Bergamo, Carmelo Beringheli, said.
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