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How can a civil servant keep the secret for a long time and hold five positions?

Kashim Chowdhury was found guilty of fraud after misappropriating £284,000 of taxpayers' money over three years.

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Spain's king and queen attend memorial service for rail crash victims

Sixty-nine people died in the collision near Toledo two weeks ago and 28 are still in hospital.

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The battle of Israel's new Parliament that could decide Netanyahu's political future

Benjamin Netanyahu's main political rival, Gadi Eisenkot, has the first opportunity to form a new government and remove the prime minister from power.

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Makers of GLP-1 drugs ordered to add warnings about rare eye condition that can lead to blindness

The US Food and Drug Administration says Ozempic, Wegovy, and other weight-loss drugs must have labels about the condition, known as NAION.

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Malaysia's disgraced former PM leaves jail for house arrest after embezzling millions

Najib Razak was convicted for his role in the billion-dollar scandal involving the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund.

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Anti-homosexuality laws in Trinidad and Tobago overturned

The ruling brings to an end an 11-year legal battle by dual-citizen Jason Jones.

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A Republican congressman begins the process for the impeachment of Pete Hegseth for the war in Iran

The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, defended his management this Tuesday in his first press conference in six months.

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Democrat Scott Colom wins closely watched US Senate race in Mississippi

The historic victory flips an eighth US Senate seat for Democrats after last week's pivotal midterm election.

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"Capitalism already treated people badly; what has changed now is that that logic has been adopted (...) in discourses about leadership"

Slovenian philosopher Renata Salecl has been wondering for several decades how the prevailing ideology infiltrates our minds. In his most recent book in Spanish, Maleducados, he addresses how rudeness has been normalized from television to politics to what happens in the workplace.

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