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Trump went on to suggest that the DOGE initiative, or Department of Government Efficiency, which Musk was instrumental in setting up, could be turned against the world’s richest man. “No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this?” the president wrote.  According to an estimate by the Washington Post, Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits over the years.  Trump and Musk started the year with effusive mutual praise and…

Published on 01/07/2025 – 11:56 GMT+2Renault SA has changed the way it accounts for its stake in Japanese firm Nissan, leading to a non-cash loss of €9.5 billion, affecting its earnings in the first half of its 2025 fiscal year. The stake, previously accounted for using the equity method, will now be a financial asset, measured by the share price of Nissan, as of 30 June 2025.“This approach aligns the value of the stake in Nissan in Renault Group’s financial statements with the value of Nissan’s share price,” Renault said in a statement. “The non-cash loss has no impact on the…

A criminal investigation has been launched into the Glastonbury performances of both Bob Vylan and Kneecap after the police reviewed video footage and audio of both sets, which took place on Saturday.  UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy condemned the “appalling and unacceptable scenes” and said she had called BBC director-general Tim Davie after the broadcast of Bob Vylan’s set.  Nandy claimed there is “a problem of leadership” at the BBC, and has criticised the corporation over its decision not to pull the livestream after Bob Vylan’s frontman shouted “death, death to the IDF” (Israel Defence Forces).Her comments follow a statement made by Prime…

The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it was hit by a “sophisticated and targeted” cyberattack as NATO leaders gathered in The Hague for a summit last week. The ICC, which is based in The Hague, said it detected the incident “late last week” and had contained the threat. “A Court-wide impact analysis is being carried out, and steps are already being taken to mitigate any effects of the incident,” the court said in a statement on Monday. The Hague was the scene of the NATO Summit early last week. Dutch cybersecurity authorities reported a series of cyberattacks known as distributed…

Together with a bipartisan group of seven former U.S. ambassadors to Romania, we had publicly urged Romanians to reject Putin’s candidate. We couldn’t silently stand by and allow the patently false Russia-driven propaganda to go unchallenged. “We saw first-hand Romania’s successful climb from Russian imposed dictatorship to freedom, and integration with the rest of Europe in the EU and alliance with the U.S. through NATO,” we wrote in an open letter. While Putin’s efforts in Romania eventually miserably failed, but real damage could have been done. | Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images We recognized the opportunity to accurately frame the…

The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day.Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang sits more than 3,962 meters above sea level. The Buddhist village lived by slow, deliberate rhythms — herding yaks and sheep and harvesting barley under sheer ochre cliffs honeycombed with “sky caves”, 2,000-year-old chambers used for ancestral burials, meditation and shelter.Then the water dried up. Snow-capped mountains turned brown and barren as, year after year, snowfall declined. Springs and canals vanished and when it did rain, the water came all at once, flooding fields and melting away the mud homes. Families…

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. Its judgement day for the government’s welfare bill and it’s unclear from all sides whether the legislation will pass, despite billions of pounds worth of concessions from the prime minister to win over his backbench MPs. The bill could lead to Sir Keir Starmer’s largest rebellion so far, exactly one year on from the day that he came into power – leaving questions about his credibility and authority to govern.

MADRID — With his conservative People’s Party comfortably ahead in polls and the Socialist-led government mired in scandals, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has never looked so close to becoming Spanish prime minister. In theory, Spain doesn’t need to hold a general election until 2027 but outrage over corruption investigations into the center-left party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is building to such a fever pitch that the country could well be heading for a snap election. This weekend, Feijóo will lead an extraordinary convention of his party in Madrid to confirm his position as leader and amplify the idea that he…

Brian Sandberg, a professor of history at Northern Illinois University who researches climate change during the Little Ice Age period from roughly the 16th to 19th centuries, had already been set to spend a year in Marseille as a visiting professor. While taking part in a workshop in the city in March, he learned of AMU’s program and decided to apply. “The entire system of research and the entire education in the United States is really under attack,” Sandberg said. AMU said 298 researchers from prestigious universities including Stanford and Yale had applied, despite the university’s lack of name recognition…

“It’s no longer a question of if we will have a heatwave, but how many are we going to experience this year and how long will they last,” said Marisol Yglesias Gonzalez, technical officer for climate change and health at the WHO in Bonn. As for how many people could be at risk, Pierre Masselot, a statistician at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told POLITICO this heatwave could cause more than 4,500 excess deaths between June 30 and July 3. The countries likely to experience the highest excess death rates are Italy, Croatia, Slovenia and Luxembourg, he…