41 h. ago South Africa moves to change empowerment law for Musk’s Starlink

Potential loosening of Black ownership rules came after billionaire said his satellite internet group would not comply

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4 d. ago Pet passports: What are the rules for international animal travel, and how might they change?

Prior to Brexit, British travellers were able to take a cat, a dog or even a ferret abroad with minimal formalities

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5 d. ago UK politics live: Starmer says Britain is ‘back on world stage’ as details of UK

UK holidaymakers will be able to use e-gates at European airports, pet passports will be introduced for cats and dogs and businesses can sell burgers and sausages into the EU

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5 d. ago Lithuania takes Belarus to top UN court over alleged smuggling of migrants

Lithuania is asking the International Court of Justice to rule that Belarus breached its international obligations by allegedly organizing the smuggling of migrants to its territory and award it compensation

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9 d. ago Britain 'has asked to rejoin EU's pet passport scheme' to cut cost of taking animals to the continent

Some 250,000 UK pet owners were estimated to have taken their cats and dogs on holiday to the EU every year before Britain left the scheme when the Brexit transition period ended in January 2021.

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1 week ago Major Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 update as UN makes landmark Russia ruling

The UN's Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has ruled Russia was behind the MH17 tragedy in 2014, which resulted in the deaths of 298 people

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3 w. ago Trump 100 days: Trump’s whirlwind start to his second presidency

The president has begun his second term at a whirlwind pace, slashing the government, upending international alliances, challenging the rule of law and ordering mass deportationsLaw-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored.The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have shocked the United States and the world. On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the “most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history”, and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US’s role in the world. Continue reading...

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