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World in brief: February 26, 2025
An Apple logo adorns the facade of the downtown Brooklyn Apple store on March 14, 2020, in New York

APPLE: US tech company Apple is fixing a bug within the dictation feature on some iPhones that briefly suggests the word “Trump” when a word with an R consonant is spoken, including “racist.”

When some users activated the dictation feature and said the word “racist,” the word “Trump” appears in the text window before quickly being replaced by the correct word, according to various videos posted online.

ROMANIA: A far-right politician who won the first round in Romania’s cancelled presidential election last year was stopped in traffic by police on Wednesday and taken for questioning by prosecutors, his communication team said.

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