She’s back with another book – and it’s a lot like the last one. Our sketchwriter spares you the 100 pages

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Tech company offers buyouts in an effort to reduce costs amid the rising use of AI, according to reports

Microsoft announced that it would offer buyouts to 60,000 employees in an effort to reduce costs amid the rising use of artificial intelligence, according to reports, the latest example of how AI is reshaping tech companies and the greater workforce.

This is the latest of several trimmings Microsoft has made to its workforce this year. The company announced in April that it was offering voluntary retirement to about 7% of its US workforce, which consisted of about 125,000 employees at the time. Its global workforce is made up of about 223,000 workers globally.

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A fourth presidential victory gives Lula another chance to defend democracy, protect the Amazon and deliver for Brazil’s working people

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s win in Brazil’s presidential election is a triumph for him, his country and the world. The 80-year-old incumbent snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, blocked the rise of the far right and saved the planetary air-conditioning system of the Amazon from irreparable destruction. Known universally as Lula, he made history by becoming the first candidate to win a presidential run-off after finishing second in the opening round. In triumphing against Flávio Bolsonaro, the leftist stopped what could have been the most dangerous consolidation of authoritarian rule in Brazil since military rule ended. A Bolsonaro presidency could have used a rightwing Congress to extend presidential terms and pack the supreme court, entrenching power for generations.

Lula seemed to have been energised by his first-round defeat by Mr Bolsonaro. The three-time president initially pitted his extraordinary life and record against a 45-year-old senator married to controversy. But voters wanted answers to economic insecurity, rising prices and poor public services. Lula reversed course in the second round, offering immediate relief from everyday costs and indebtedness – including to the rising number of self-employed voters whom his rightwing opponent had been courting. Popular mobilisation transformed the runoff into a race to stop a Bolsonaro restoration with student protests, mass demonstrations and a 10 million-strong “Lula’s Army” WhatsApp channel. It seemed to work. Nearly 5 million more people voted in the second round of the Brazilian election than the first.

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Two years after the Novi Sad tragedy gave birth to a youthful political movement, Sunday’s remarkable election has taken the country into a new era

This weekend it will be two years since the collapse of a shoddily constructed train station canopy in Serbia’s second city, Novi Sad. The tragedy, killing 16 people, was swiftly attributed to state corruption and failures of regulation, sparking student-led protests across the country.

Some of those demonstrators dared to imagine that they could become the catalyst for a democratic revolution.

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• Guy Pepper and Benhard van Rensburg also doubts

England are fretting over the fitness of the fly-half Fin Smith in the lead-up to the Nations Championship home opener against Australia next week.

The Northampton player damaged a calf in the second half against Leicester on Saturday and will be unable to join the national squad who have a three-day training camp in Bagshot this week.

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PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - De verdachte van een dodelijke schietpartij in twee Parijse voorsteden heeft ontkend dat de daad racistisch gemotiveerd was. Bij de schietpartij van vrijdag vielen een dode en vijf gewonden. President Emmanuel Macron sprak eerder van een racistische terreurdaad en zei dat de schutter zijn slachtoffers op basis van geloof en huidskleur koos.

De 39-jarige Kevin T. wordt ervan beschuldigd in Trappes en La Verrière te hebben geschoten vanuit een rijdende auto. Hij "betwist de materiële feiten niet", maar ontkent wel "het racistische karakter van zijn misdrijven", zei een openbaar aanklager bij de afdeling terrorismebestrijding. Hij meldde ook dat "geen pamfletten van een politieke partij in de auto zijn gevonden", in tegenstelling tot wat sommige media meldden.

Het voorarrest van T. werd zaterdagavond opgeheven. De man zit nu op advies van een psychiatrisch deskundige op de psychiatrische afdeling van de Parijse politie. Hij wordt 48 uur geobserveerd. De man lijdt volgens een ingewijde aan schizofrenie.

Uit straatboekenkastjes in heel Nederland haalt Arjen Fortuin steeds een boek, bespreekt het, en geeft het door. Ditmaal duikt de ultieme vluchtroman van Maria Stahlie op in het hoge noorden.

Deze week spreekt het kabinet-Jetten met de oppositie om tot meerderheden te komen. Veel onderhandelingsgeld heeft het niet vrijgemaakt: het kabinet denkt aan een lastenverlichting op arbeid van 350 miljoen euro.

Veel particuliere huisbazen in Rotterdam vragen nog steeds een veel te hoge huur. De Wet betaalbare huur geeft bewoners en de gemeente de mogelijkheid daar iets aan te doen. Maar huurders melden zich amper en foute huisbazen worden onvoldoende aangepakt. De resultaten van de dure gemeentelijke aanpak zijn te mager, vindt de Rekenkamer Rotterdam.

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