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Day 33: Has Musk taken a chainsaw to US politics?

Woman sues fertility clinic after giving birth to another couple’s baby

Krystena Murray says she was “turned into an unwitting surrogate, against her will, for another couple” and has been left “emotionally and physically broken”.
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‘I’ve never felt so violated,’ says Krystena Murray
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Krystena Murray. Pic: Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise

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The Coastal Fertility Specialists clinic in Savannah, Georgia. Pic: AP

Passengers onboard Delta jet that crashed and flipped over in Toronto offered $30,000 each

On Monday, a flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul to Pearson Airport in Toronto crashed in dramatic fashion. But all 80 people onboard survived.
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How did the Delta jet crash and flip?
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The wreckage of the plane being lifted away as cleanup continues.
Pic: Reuters/Cole Burston

Alleged Chilean crime gang charged after string of star US athletes burgled

A number of top American football and basketball players saw their homes targeted while they were away playing, the FBI said previously.
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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
File pic: AP/Matt Freed

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The FBI alleges the photo shows Pablo Zuniga Cartes, Ignacio Zuniga Cartes, Bastian Jimenez Freraut, and a fourth individual posing with the stolen safe and jewelry taken from one of the burglaries.

Analysis
Analysis
Why all roads lead through Riyadh – as Saudi Arabia emerges as key global power broker

Since Donald Trump was last president, the kingdom has matured and emboldened its geopolitical clout. Back in his first term, Mr Trump recognised the value in Saudi Arabia. This time, Saudi Arabia is harnessing Mr Trump’s power.
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A Saudi-run investment forum has been taking place in Miami

Analysis
Analysis
Ukraine’s president is fighting a war on two fronts – against Russian forces on the ground and against American assaults over the airwaves

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused US President Donald Trump of being “trapped in a disinformation bubble”.
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President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday. Pic: Reuters

Donald Trump hits back at ‘terrible’ Volodymyr Zelenskyy and calls him a ‘dictator’ amid US-Russia talks

Donald Trump’s comments come after Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the US president is living in a Russian-made “disinformation space”.
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US secretary of state Marco Rubio with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov. Pic: Reuters

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Residents stand at the site of an Odesa clinic hit by the strike. Pic: Reuters

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff says he has developed a ‘friendship’ with Putin

Steve Witkoff made the remark as he discussed a remarkable overnight trip to Moscow last week to secure the release of US citizen Marc Fogel.
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Witkoff: I agree with the president on Ukraine
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Steve Witkoff said his Moscow visit ‘was a great trip’

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