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    For the bank holiday, here are some stories from the past week that you might have missed

     
    IN THE SPOTLIGHT

    Meloni’s gamble backfires: a turning point for Italy

    The Italian PM has had an ‘aura of political invincibility’, but a referendum on flagship judicial reforms has left her vulnerable

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    TODAY’S BIG QUESTION

    Could the Iran war pop the AI bubble?

    A perfect storm may finally topple a long-risky pillar of the 21st century global economy

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    It wasn’t all bad

    An 86-year-old retired accountant has become the oldest person in Britain ever to donate a kidney. Graham Sisson was 84 when he decided to give the organ to his son-in-law. Ian Tonks had had a transplant 12 years earlier, but the organ had started to decline in 2018. He was put back on the transplant list in 2019, and when he failed to find a donor, Sisson stepped in. “I’m thrilled to bits to see Ian’s life change,” he said, “but others seem to think it’s a bigger thing than I do.” Tonks said that “no gift in the world” matches what he did.

     
     
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