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A nation shaped by rain: exhibition celebrates Scotland’s wettest obsession
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John Lewis injects £20m into Glasgow city centre store in wider branch reboot
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Fashion tycoon Bernard Arnault accused of stranglehold over French business press
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Sierra Leone’s first lady refuses to condemn FGM without ‘reliable data’ on harms
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Ghana to advance reparatory justice at first major gathering since landmark UN resolution
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Lib Dems to urge Labour to drop ‘torpor and timidity’ on EU and rejoin single market
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Critical LiteLLM Flaw Allows Authentication Bypass via Host Header Injection
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Three Iranian tankers exit U.S. blockade for first time in months as shipowners eye Hormuz in ‘wary disbelief’
At least three Iranian tankers carrying nearly five million barrels of crude oil have exited the U.S. Navy blockade.
Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
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Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation — New financing will more than quadruple…