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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

UK leader Starmer says he is 'furious' he wasn't told Peter Mandelson had failed security checks to be ambassador to US

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About 15 Latin American deportees from the US have arrived in Congo, lawyer says

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

Sri Lanka has sent home 238 Iranian sailors, including 32 who survived a U.S. torpedo attack in the Indian Ocean

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US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

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...