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California beaches closed as ‘devastating’ oil spill threatens wildlife  The Guardian Massive oil spill threatens California coast l GMA  Good Morning America Slog AM: Seattle Loves a New Train, There’s a Huge Oil Spill in California, and Russia Threatens to Crack Down

Pandora Papers: Pakistan’s Imran Khan pledges to ‘investigate wrongdoing’  BBC News Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful  The Guardian Pandora Papers: While Jordan suffers, King Abdullah bought property worth $106m using offshore funds  Haaretz

The defection is one of the biggest such losses by a Cuban team playing abroad. Cuban baseball players are often recruited by scouts looking to sign them to play with major league clubs.

The new initiative is set to be detailed in a policy address by U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, in what would be her first detailed remarks on trade between the world’s two largest economies since she took office in March.

Orange County beaches closed after oil spill off California coast destroys wildlife habitat  CNN Editorial: Huntington Beach shore is covered in oil. This is why the U.S. needs to end coastal drilling  Los Angeles Times At least 126000 gallons of oil leaks,

PMO accuses Tehran of ‘act of terror’ after assassination attempt against Teddy Sagi, the mogul behind a gambling software company

The Tunisia-born baker who won the coveted annual award for the best baguette in Paris last week is at the centre of a fermenting controversy after claims he shared extremist posts on social media. Makram Akrout, whose achievement in beating

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who stirred worldwide controversy in 2007 with drawings depicting the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog, was killed in a car crash near the southern town of Markaryd on Sunday, police

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on how the human body senses temperature, touch and movement.

Concert promoter Live Nation announces April show as part of world tour