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What fate awaits Europe’s Future Combat Air System? The joint programme to modernise military aviation in France, Germany and Spain has hit turbulence, as tensions rise between the partners designing a next-generation fighter jet – and questions grow over whether Berlin might quit the defence scheme altogether. Also, Apple is being sued over its alleged role in distributing child sexual abuse material, and the Trump administration is threatening to withdraw from the International Energy Agency over its net-zero emissions goals.

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