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Cyclone wreaks havoc as India, B’desh evacuate millions

Bloomberg Cyclone Fani barreled through the eastern parts of India on May 3, unleashing heavy rain and prompting authorities in the country and neighbouring Bangladesh to evacuate a total of more than 3.5 million people to shelters. At least 12 people were killed as the storm swamped towns and villages, the Press Trust of India reported, citing government officials it ...

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Voters punish May, Corbyn in local polls

Bloomberg Voters in England punished both Theresa May’s Conservatives and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour opposition in local elections, piling pressure on the two party leaders to resolve the Brexit crisis paralysing British politics. Britain’s major parties interpreted their poor results as an angry demand from a frustrated population to deal with Brexit, which has locked Parliament in a stalemate for months. ...

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Siri case: Italy’s Conte drops peacemaker role

Bloomberg The referee, it seems, has taken sides. After spending much of the last 10 months acting as a mediator between the feuding deputy premiers who hold the real power in Italy’s government, PM Giuseppe Conte appears to have sided with one of them: the Five Star Movement’s Luigi Di Maio. When Conte called for the resignation of a cabinet ...

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