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Musk wields Milei’s ‘chainsaw for bureaucracy’

Elon Musk has appeared at a conservative gathering outside Washington waving a chainsaw in the air, showing openness to auditing the Federal Reserve and accusing Democrats of “treason”. Musk, the Tesla CEO who has become perhaps President Donald Trump’s most influential adviser, spoke about his crusade to cut government spending and downsize the federal workforce with the administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.

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Middle East

21 Feb 2025

Bodies of littlest hostages handed over

Hamas handed over the bodies of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023, attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day. Red Cross vehicles drove away from the handover site in the Gaza Strip with four black coffins that had been placed on a stage. Each of the caskets had a small picture of the hostages.

AP/Reuters

21 Feb 2025

Ukraine

20 Feb 2025

Trump tirade at Zelensky causes alarm

US President Donald Trump has denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “dictator”, warning he has to move quickly to secure peace or risk losing his country, deepening a feud between the two leaders that has alarmed European officials. The extraordinary attacks – a day after Trump claimed Ukraine was to blame for Russia’s 2022 invasion – heightened concerns among US allies in Europe that Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict could benefit Moscow.

AP/Reuters

20 Feb 2025

Explainer

20 Feb 2025

How did everyone survive such a plane crash?

After watching videos of a Delta Air Lines jet catch fire upon landing and flip over on a Toronto runway, it’s fair to wonder how anyone could have survived. But aviation experts said it was not surprising that all 76 passengers and four crew walked away from Monday’s disaster, with 21 people suffering minor injuries and only one still hospitalised. It’s a credit, they said, to advances in plane design as well as a crew that flawlessly executed an evacuation plan.

AP/Reuters

20 Feb 2025

Brazil

20 Feb 2025

Bolsonaro charged over coup plot

Former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with leading a plot to overthrow the government and undermine the country’s 40-year-old democracy after his 2022 election loss. The charges come after a two-year police investigation into the election-denying movement that culminated in riots by Bolsonaro supporters in the capital in early 2023, a week after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took office. Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet charged the far-right firebrand and his running mate, General Walter Braga Netto, with leading a “criminal organisation” that wanted to create a new order in the country, including with plans to poison Lula.

AP/Reuters

20 Feb 2025

Economy

19 Feb 2025

Inflation rises to 10-month high

Inflation in the UK rose to a 10-month high in January, an increase that will likely diminish expectations of rapid interest rate reductions from the Bank of England. The Office for National Statistics said inflation, as measured by the consumer prices index, rose to 3 per cent in the year to January, up from the equivalent 2.5 per cent rate the month before. The spike, which took inflation further above the bank’s target of 2 per cent, was largely due to increases in airfares, food casts and private school fees in the wake of the new Labour government’s decision to impose a sales tax.

AP/Reuters

19 Feb 2025

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