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Iran executes man accused of helping Israel kill colonel in Revolutionary Guards | Iran newsthirst.

Iran has executed a 36-year-old man it accused of helping the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, kill a senior officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Tehran in 2022. Iranian state media said Mohsen Langarneshin was hanged, the usual method of execution in Iran, at Ghezel Hesar prison early on Wednesday morning. Langarneshin’s family…

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Equinor may take legal action after Trump administration halted US windfarm plan | Energy industry newsthirst.

Norway’s state energy company may take Donald Trump’s administration to court after it ordered an “unprecedented” halt to a $2.5bn (£1.87bn) windfarm project off the coast of New York. Equinor is considering its legal options after the US interior secretary, Doug Burgum, ordered the energy company to “immediately halt all construction activities” on an offshore…

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Tony Blair risks sending absolutely wrong message, says climate expert | Climate crisis newsthirst.

Tony Blair has come under criticism from climate experts after warning that any strategy relying on rapidly phasing out fossil fuels is “doomed to fail”. The former prime minister’s comments, published in a new report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), triggered an internal row within Labour, with some accusing him of…

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Company supplying critical EV metal ‘did not disclose’ Erin Brockovich pollutant in drinking water | Mining newsthirst.

One of Indonesia’s largest nickel-mining companies, which supplies a mineral critical to the global electric car industry, did not tell the public that local drinking water was polluted, according to documents seen by the Guardian. Indonesia has become the world’s biggest producer of nickel, used in the production of wind turbines, solar panels and electric…

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US charges migrants over entering military ‘buffer zone’ on Mexico border | US-Mexico border newsthirst.

The US Department of Justice has begun the first criminal prosecutions of migrants for entering a newly declared military buffer zone created along the border with Mexico, according to court filings, Reuters reports. At least 28 migrants were charged were charged in federal court in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on Monday for crossing into the…

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Donald Trump says he ‘will be talking’ to Australia’s prime minister about tariffs | Donald Trump newsthirst.

Donald Trump says he will speak to the Australian prime minister about trade, telling reporters he knows the Australian government has been trying to contact him. Australia goes to a federal election on Saturday and while the incumbent, Anthony Albanese, is favoured to win, Trump could be dealing with an alternative prime minister after the…

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