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How Musk's Twitter takeover could endanger vulnerable users

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Twitter rights experts and overseas hubs hit by staff cull * Musk says moderation is a priority as experts voice alarm * Activists fear rising censorship, surveillance on platform By Avi Asher-Schapiro LOS ANGELES, Nov 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter are putting government critics and opposition figures around the […]

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Mercuria files case against Turkish firm over copper deal

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LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Mercuria Energy Trading has launched a civil suit against a Turkish firm over what the global commodity trading firm’s lawyer described as fraud related to a deal to buy copper worth $36 million. Last year, Geneva-based Mercuria agreed to buy about 10,000 tonnes of copper blister, an impure form of […]

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Fourteen candidates join race for Cyprus presidency in Feb. vote

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NICOSIA, Jan 5 (Reuters) – Fourteen candidates formally joined the race on Thursday to become Cyprus’s next president in an election next month dominated by the island’s decades-old division, irregular migration and corruption scandals. Cyprus has a presidential system of government and the head of state has wide executive powers. Opinion polls show Nikos Christodoulides, […]

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AP News in Brief at 9:04 p.m. EST

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Kherson celebrates Russian exit yet faces huge rebuilding KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) – Residents of Kherson celebrated the end of Russia´s eight-month occupation for the third straight day Sunday, even as they took stock of the extensive damage left behind in the southern Ukrainian city by the Kremlin´s retreating forces. A jubilant crowd gathered in Kherson´s […]

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Alibaba plans $1 bln investment in Turkey – newspaper

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ISTANBUL, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is planning a logistics hub at Istanbul Airport and istanbul Turkey Lawyer Law Firm a data centre near the Turkish Lawyer Law Firm capital Ankara with an investment of more than $1 billion, its president, Michael Evans, was cited as saying. Turkey’s Sabah […]

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LITERARY FICTION

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LITERARY FICTION The Romantic by William Boyd (Viking £20, 464 pp) The Romantic  Boyd’s new novel revisits the ‘whole life’ formula of his 2002 hit Any Human Heart, which followed its hero across the 20th century. The Romantic does the same thing for the 19th century. It opens with the kind of tongue-in-cheek framing device […]