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Australia and Vanuatu agree to $328m security and business deal
Australia and Vanuatu have agreed to a 10-year deal, aimed at strengthening security and economic ties, worth A$500m ($328m; £241m). The so-called Nakamal agreement – the result of months of negotiations – will transform Australia’s relationship with its Pacific neighbour, leaders from both countries said on Wednesday. “We are family,” Australia’s deputy prime minister Richard…
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Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden over Epstein claim
First Lady Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden for more than $1bn after he claimed she was introduced to her husband by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lawyers acting on behalf of the first lady, who married US President Donald Trump in 2005, described the claim as “false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory”. Biden, son…
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End Israel’s weaponisation of Gaza aid, 100 humanitarian groups say
EPA More than 100 organisations have signed a joint letter calling on Israel to stop the “weaponisation of aid” into Gaza, as “starvation deepens”. Humanitarian groups, including Oxfam and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), say they are increasingly being told they are “not authorised” to deliver aid, unless they comply with the stricter Israeli regulations. Groups…
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what do the figures say and how safe do people feel?
US President Donald Trump claims Washington DC has been “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals”, but DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says violent crime is “at a 30-year low”. BBC Verify Correspondent Nick Beake has been looking into the crime statistics and asking people how safe they feel in their city. Produced by Meiying Wu…
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Aerial footage shows aftermath of massive train derailment in Texas
A Union Pacific train with approximately 35 cars derailed close to Gordon, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon. Video shows mangled train cars piled on top of each other on the tracks, as emergency crews attend the scene. Palo Pinto County officials confirmed the derailment happened near the Coalville Road Bridge and that no injuries have been…
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When India professor used chemistry as defence in murder trial but failed
Soutik Biswas BBC News, London BBC Mamta Pathak (right) was sentenced to life for killing her husband Neeraj (left) by electrocution “Are you a chemistry professor?” the judge asked. “Yes,” Mamta Pathak replied, clasping her hand in a respectful namaste. Draped in a white sari, glasses perched on her nose, the retired college teacher stood…
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New album, Travis Kelce relationship
Max Matza & Christal Hayes BBC News Watch: Taylor Swift appears in Travis and Jason Kelce’s podcast ‘New Heights’ It is a first in Taylor Swift’s music career. The megastar made her podcast debut on Wednesday night, appearing on New Heights – hosted by boyfriend Travis Kelce and his brother Jason Kelce – where she…
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Who is Jimmy Lai, the HK media tycoon on trial for national security crimes?
Getty Images Lai is on trial for breaching national security and colluding with foreign forces Hailed by some as a hero and scorned by others as a traitor, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is in the final stage of his national security trial. Closing arguments begin on Thursday for Lai, who is accused…
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Children dying of hunger in Darfur’s el-Fasher city
Barbara Plett Usher Africa correspondent, BBC News Watch: BBC obtains rare video from inside besieged el-Fasher in Sudan The women at the community kitchen in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher are sitting in huddles of desperation. “Our children are dying before our eyes,” one of them tells the BBC. “We don’t know what to…
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Peru president signs amnesty law for police and soldiers accused of atrocities
Peru’s president has signed a controversial new law pardoning soldiers, police and civilian militias on trial for atrocities during the country’s two-decade armed conflict against Maoist rebels. Dina Boluarte enacted the measure that was passed by Congress in July, despite an order from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to suspend it pending a review…