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My Mother’s Murder

1 week ago | tortoisemedia.com | Ceri Thomas |Gary Marshall |Paul Caruana Galizia |Tom Kinsella

It is a little over two years since Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta’s pre-eminent investigative journalist, died in a car bomb, and the shock is still being felt. In an EU member country, how was such a political assassination even possible? How closely implicated in the plot were high-ranking members of the government and business? The questions only deepened as it began to appear that the people behind the murder might get away with it. Daphne’s son Paul Caruana Galizia is a reporter at Tortoise.
India vows ‘loud response’ to deadly attack in Kashmir

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

India has promised a “very loud response” to the killing of 26 tourists by suspected militants in the disputed region of Kashmir. What those three words mean is the big unanswered question. A little known Islamist group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack, but fingers have been pointed at Pakistan, which denies involvement. New Delhi has previously accused Pakistan of harbouring and supporting separatist violence in the two-thirds of Kashmir occupied by India.
Elon Musk to spend more time on cars

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Giles Whittell

When Elon Musk sided with Trump and bet a large part of his farm on the gargantuan Tesla Cybertruck, the best gloss analysts could put on it was that he would gain more customers in red-state America than he lost in blue. This hasn’t happened. Revenues were down 9 per cent and profits an astonishing 71 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 as Chinese rivals outsold Tesla with cheaper electric cars and Teslas became lightning rods for anti-Musk protest.
Neil Gaiman seeks $500,000 from accuser

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Phoebe Davis

Neil Gaiman is seeking more than $500,000 from a woman who accused him of sexual assault. Tortoise reported last year that Caroline Wallner claimed she was pressured to have sex with the author in return for letting her live at his property in upstate New York. In 2021, Gaiman allegedly made Wallner sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in return for a $275,000 payment to help her cope with post-traumatic stress and depression following their sexual relationship.
David Beckham tries to score with football talk show

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

David Beckham will return to TV screens next month, but he won’t be in a football kit or apron. The retired midfielder is the new host of Beckham & Friends, in which he will preview the late stages of the Champions League, European football’s top competition, with a variety of celebrity guests rumoured to include Gordon Ramsay and Tom Cruise.
Academy confirms films made with AI can win Oscars

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

The Oscars have laid down the law on AI in Hollywood movies. Kind of. Academy rules have been updated to clarify that artificial intelligence tools “neither help nor harm the chances of achieving a nomination”. It will be left to voters to take into account “the degree to which a human was at the heart of the creative authorship when choosing which movie to award”.
Harvard sets up heavyweight fight between academia and Trump

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Stephen Armstrong

Harvard has raised the stakes in its fightback against the US government. On Monday, the world’s richest university sued the Trump administration over its freezing of $2.3 billion in funding. The lawsuit claims the administration’s actions are unlawful, arbitrary and violate the university’s rights to free speech. This was followed yesterday by a joint statement signed by more than 170 university leaders who criticised the “political interference now endangering American higher education”.
92-year-old cardinal sets the mood for a fractious conclave

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

Pope Francis will be laid to rest on Saturday, but it will take much longer for cardinals to choose his successor and no one should expect the process to be harmonious. The first rumbles of division have come from Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong, who complained that the first meeting of the General Congregations was being held at 9am on Tuesday – less than 24 hours after the death of Francis was announced.
IMF expects Trump tariffs to hurt the US the most

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Barney Macintyre

The IMF has jettisoned its predictions for the world economy in the wake of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, forecasting lower global growth than it did in January. The US and UK both had upward revisions in inflation and downgrades in growth for this year, of 0.9 and 0.5 percentage points respectively. Spain was an outlier among advanced economies, with growth revised upwards to 2.5 per cent for 2025.
There is a way to soothe the pain of African aid cuts

2 months ago | tortoisemedia.com | Fred Harter

Debt relief that could improve the life of millions Donald Trump’s tariffs are set to shave half a percentage point off global growth, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. The IMF warned that poor countries already hit by Trump’s gutting of foreign aid could plunge further into debt. So what? Africa is already in a debt crisis. Thirty-two of its 54 countries spend more on interest payments than health, and 25 spend more on debt than education.