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Trump administration moves to restrict immigrants who use public benefits

Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday said it would propose making it harder for foreigners to come to the United States or remain there if they have received or are likely to receive public benefits such as food aid, public housing or Medicaid. The proposed regulation from the Department of Homeland Security would expand immigration officers’ […]

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Jelly Deals: Hyper Light Drifter is 60% off today

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer. Hyper Light Drifter is a gorgeous 2D action RPG that arrived […]

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Dog hide tax starting to bite for North Koreans

North Korea has ordered its citizens to donate dog hides to the regime as part of celebrations marking the 73rd anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea on October 10.  The government collects dog hides ahead of the anniversary each year “to raise funds for the party”, the dissident Daily NK website […]

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Controversial Crytek boss Cevat Yerli steps down

Cevat Yerli, the controversial boss and co-founder of Crysis developer Crytek, has stepped down as CEO and president. Yerli, who was public enemy number one as Crytek staff went unpaid for months, will continue as “strategic shareholder”, but the company will now be led by his brothers Avni and Faruk as joint CEOs. The change […]

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Donald Trump’s relationship with Kim Jong-un: ‘We fell in love’ after ‘beautiful letters’

US President Donald Trump took his enthusiasm for his detente with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to new heights on Saturday, declaring at a rally with supporters that "we fell in love" after exchanging letters. Mr Trump and Mr Kim have said they want to work toward denuclearising the Korean peninsula, holding an unprecedented meeting earlier […]

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Rare white tiger kills zookeeper in Japan

A white tiger has mauled a zookeeper to death at a zoo in southern Japan. The keeper, identified as 40-year-old Akira Furusho, was discovered collapsed and bleeding from bites to his neck inside the tiger’s enclosure at the Hirakawa Zoological Park, in Kagoshima, southern Japan, shortly after the zoo closed on Monday evening.  A veterinarian […]

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Brett Kavanaugh’s future hangs in the balance as FBI begins investigation

The FBI was on Saturday embarking on a high-stakes investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, ahead of a vote this week which will shape the contours of the United States for decades to come. Donald Trump, the US president, on Friday evening threw his support behind the investigation, which is designed to search for […]

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Grand Theft Auto 5 sold another 1m copies in the UK in 2017

Grand Theft Auto 5 – a game that came out four-and-a-half years ago – sold over 1m copies in the UK alone in 2017. Data from the Entertainment Retailers Association, which combines physical game sales data from Chart-Track with a download sales estimate from the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE), reveals GTA5 sold 1,080,022 […]

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Germany removes spymaster from his post over far-right violence row

The head of German domestic intelligence was removed from his post on Tuesday after he publicly contradicted Angela Merkel in a move widely seen as interfering in politics. Under a compromise deal to avoid a split in Mrs Merkel’s coalition, Hans-Georg Maassen was not dismissed but will instead be moved to the interior ministry as […]

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Hunt: Showdown is brutal, but you’ll soon get caught in its web

“Fast and agile” is how Crytek describes the spider, one of Hunt: Showdown’s two currently available boss monsters. “Fast and agile”, oh, and “immune to poison”. I’ve spent a few hours in the creature’s rough vicinity now, listening to its feet rattle across the ceilings of barns and slaughterhouses, and I worry this is selling […]

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