UK's Rwanda asylum plan faces last-gasp challenge
UK campaigners get their last chance in court on Monday to stop the government's first flight of asylum-seekers to Rwanda.
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Yen slides to 24-year low against dollar
The yen plunged to its lowest level against the dollar since 1998 on Monday as sky-high US inflation fuels a widening monetary policy gap between Japan and the world's largest economy.
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Australian newspaper apologises over Rebel Wilson 'outing' controversy
Australian newspaper the Sydney Morning Herald took down an article on Monday after it set off a storm of accusations on social media that the publication had pressured actress Rebel Wilson to reveal she was dating a woman.
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Ukrainian, Russian forces fight for 'every metre' in Severodonetsk
Ukrainian and Russian forces were fighting for "literally every metre" in Severodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, as fighting intensified in an eastern region where the country's top commander said the land "is covered in blood".
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Google pays $118 mn to settle gender discrimination suit
Google said on Sunday that it was "very pleased" to be settling, without admission of wrongdoing, a class-action lawsuit that argued it underpaid female employees and assigned them lower-ranking positions.
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Asian markets follow Wall St plunge on inflation woes
Markets tumbled in Asia on Monday and the dollar rallied as part of a global rout fuelled by a forecast-beating US inflation print that ramped up bets on a more aggressive campaign of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes.
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Hope fades as belongings of two men missing in Amazon found
Brazilian authorities say they have found a backpack and personal effects of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert who disappeared in the Amazon last week, with the Briton's mother-in-law saying she has lost hope that they will emerge alive.
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Actor Rebel Wilson responds to newspaper 'outing' controversy
Actor Rebel Wilson said an Australian newspaper had put her in a "very hard situation" after fans accused the publication of pressuring her to reveal her relationship with a woman.
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Thaksin's daughter takes Shinawatra brand to new Thai generation
She has half a million followers on Instagram, leads a glamorous lifestyle and describes herself as the "little girl" of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra -- one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Thai history.
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'My apartment vibrates': New Yorkers fight noisy helicopter rides
After a period of blissful silence overhead due to the Covid-19 pandemic, New Yorkers are dealing again with a familiar problem: noisy helicopters.
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