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Vodafone franchisees warned of ‘massive impact’ of commission cuts on mental health | Vodafone

Vodafone franchisees warned the telecoms group of the “massive impact” commission cuts were having on their mental health four years before a group of 62 launched a £120m high court claim against the company, it has emerged. Franchisees of the high street chain said they were feeling stressed and had suffered from “anxiety” as a […]

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Angelina Jolie says ‘I don’t recognise my country’ now amid threats to freedom of speech in US | Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie has said “I don’t recognise my country” amid the threats to free speech in the US, saying “anything anywhere that divides or limits personal expressions and freedoms from anyone, I think, is very dangerous”. At Spain’s San Sebastián film festival on Sunday, the Oscar winning actor was asked by a journalist: “What do […]

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Optus will face ‘significant consequences’ for triple zero failure linked to deaths, minister says | Optus

The federal government has promised Optus will “suffer significant consequences” after multiple deaths were recorded during the telco’s triple zero outage, with major financial penalties likely. The communications regulator said it wasn’t informed of the outage by Optus until hours after it had been resolved – and that the company had provided “inaccurate” information. The […]

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German and Swedish jets intercept Russian military plane over Baltic Sea : NPR

A German Eurofighter Typhoon jet performs during an exhibition flight demonstration in Le Bourget, north of Paris on June 18. Eurofighters were used in intercepting the Russian plane. Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images German and Swedish fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian […]

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Australia news live: Acma not told of Optus triple-zero network issues for more than 10 hours, chair says | Australia news

Acma not told of Optus triple-zero network issues for more than 10 hours Nerida O’Loughlin, the Australian Communications Media Authority (Acma) chair, said the body usually gets multiple emails per day from telcos when something goes wrong with their networks. But in the case of the Optus outage, Acma wasn’t “notified at all until the […]

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Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, says she forgives man accused of murder | Charlie Kirk shooting

During an emotional address at his public memorial in Glendale, Arizona, the widow of rightwing youth organizer Charlie Kirk said she forgives the man charged with killing her husband. “My husband, he wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life,” Erika Kirk said, before an at-capacity crowd. “That man, that […]