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• L'inchiesta ha rivelato che Kyle Hudson, morto a 22 anni, aveva chiuso i suoi conti di scommessa più volte, ma ha ricevuto oltre 300 incentivi per tornare. • Un giovane uomo di Melbourne che si è tolto la vita dopo aver scommesso più di 895.000 dollari in quattro anni è stato ripetutamente attratto verso le piattaforme di scommesse online da incentivi mirati. • Il Coroner Paul Lawrie sta indagando sulle circostanze e sui probabili fattori contribuenti alla morte di Kyle Hudson, 22 anni, inclusa la valutazione se società di scommesse come Sportsbet, Entain e bet365 abbiano analizzato accuratamente il suo rischio di danni legati al gioco d'azzardo.

• TIME Magazine published its 2026 TIME100 Companies list highlighting top entertainment firms on April 28. • Apple leads for prioritizing streaming quality over quantity in its services. • Other notables include Beast Industries for building an empire from viral antics and Neon for championing foreign films.

70 Up to conclude long-running show following group of children into adulthood, revisiting them every seven yearsAsif Kapadia will bring the long-running and influential ITV documentary series Up to an end, with a concluding instalment that will air later this year.The series, which began in 1964, was voted the most influential UK TV show of the last 50 years in 2024, followed a group of children from infancy via their teen years to adulthood, and now revisits them as they approach old age. Continue reading...

He had IRGC’s trust while having his differences with hardliners and had huge sway with likes of China and RussiaMiddle East crisis – live updatesIf confirmed, Israel’s assassination of Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s supreme national security council and one of the linchpins of Iranian politics, would be a devastating body blow to the country and probably a bigger reverse than the loss of the supreme leader Ali Khamenei at the outset of the war.In any attempt to decapitate the Iranian leadership, Larijani would always be the prime target, largely because of his ability to straddle so many levels of Iranian politics and his huge personal influence not just in Iran but with foreign states including China and Russia. Continue reading...