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1. The CEO of which messaging app was arrested by French police as he disembarked from a personal jet?
WhatsAppSignalTelegramSlack
2. A four-year-old by chance smashed a 3,500-year-old jar throughout a visit to which museum?
The British MuseumThe Hecht MuseumThe LouvreThe Smithsonian Nationwide Museum
3. Which online game, China’s first AAA+ blockbuster, has topped Steam’s “most-played” chart?
“Fantasy Westward Journey””Black Fable: Wukong””Heroes of Three Kingdoms””Age of Wushu”
4. Based on his biographer, Keir Starmer has had a portrait of which former prime minister faraway from 10 Downing Avenue?
Margaret ThatcherGordon BrownRishi SunakTheresa Might
5. Pacific Island leaders met for an annual summit through which nation’s capital?
TongaFijiVanuatuSolomon Islands
6. Which TV sequence a couple of podcast is returning for a fourth sequence?
StartUpHomecomingOnly Murders within the BuildingSlow Burn
7. The UK’s Nationwide Crime Company has warned of a surge in makes an attempt to smuggle which drug into the nation?
CocaineCannabisHeroinFentanyl
8. What was the primary goal of Russia’s latest missile and drone assaults on Ukraine?
Army basesGovernment buildingsEnergy infrastructureTransportation networks
9. Former MP Dominic Grieve is the newest contender to enter the race for which largely ceremonial place?
Lord Mayor of LondonChancellor of Oxford UniversityBlack RodHigh Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
10. Wildlife officers in Missouri discovered a bald eagle unable to fly for what cause?
It had a damaged wingIt was sickIt was too fatIt had a watch damage
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1. Telegram
Pavel Durov has been charged with complicity in an array of crimes allegedly facilitated by the messaging app in what’s shaping as much as be a landmark case within the obligation of tech bosses for content material shared on their platforms.
2. The Hecht Museum
The uncommon Bronze Age artefact, dated between 2200BC and 1500BC, was by chance shattered when a curious boy pulled the jar to see inside. The Hecht Museum, in Haifa, Israel, will proceed to show its artefacts as ordinary, and the household has been invited again as soon as the jar is restored.
3. “Black Fable: Wukong”
The action-adventure sport, primarily based on a Sixteenth-century epic, has been broadly acclaimed, regardless of a unfavourable backlash to the sport’s advertising and marketing crew’s try to bar gaming journalists from mentioning matters together with Covid-19 and “feminist propaganda” of their evaluations.
4. Margaret Thatcher
The choice to take down the portray has been criticised by some within the Conservative Social gathering. Greg Smith, the MP for Mid Buckinghamshire, informed The Telegraph the choice was “utter pettiness from Starmer”.
5. Tonga
The 53rd Pacific Island Discussion board comes at a second of “polycrisis” for the area, warned Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka. The low-lying island nations are on the frontline of local weather change, and in addition on the centre of a geopolitical tug of struggle between China and the West.
6. Solely Murders within the Constructing
The present follows a trio of true crime podcasters and neighbours – Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Quick) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) – who resolve mysteries of their swanky New York residence advanced.
7. Hashish
Border brokers have intercepted 15 tonnes of hashish at UK airports to this point this yr, in comparison with 5 tonnes in the entire of 2023. The Nationwide Crime Company says a lot of the haul comes from nations the place leisure marijuana is authorized, the bulk from the US. Discover out extra on this week’s episode of The Week Unwrapped podcast.
8. Vitality infrastructure
Russia’s assault, involving 236 cruise and supersonic missiles focusing on Kyiv’s vitality infrastructure, was the biggest aerial assault so far, exceeding its earlier report of 158 missiles and drones in a single day. Nevertheless, Ukraine efficiently intercepted or disabled 201 of these missiles.
9. Chancellor of Oxford College
Grieve’s competitors for the traditional put up consists of former worldwide cricket star Imran Khan, who will probably be working from his jail cell following a string of authorized entanglements since being eliminated as prime minister of Pakistan in 2022.
10. It was too fats
Veterinarians from the Dickerson Park Zoo examined the flightless chicken, initially anticipating to discover a damaged wing. As a substitute, an X-ray revealed a raccoon’s leg and paw in its abdomen. The eagle was wholesome however overly full from the raccoon and was shortly launched after a quick keep on the hospital.
