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Italy is in talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a €1.5 billion deal to provide top-level encrypted telecoms for the government, people familiar said. The negotiations appeared to move forward after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Musk abruptly turned on Reform UK’s Nigel Farage, declaring that the party needs a new leader after Farage distanced himself from Musk’s controversial views, including calls to free far-right activist Tommy Robinson. A UK minister called Musk’s string of vitriolic posts on X about a British child sex abuse scandal “disgraceful.”