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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…
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Wildfire threatens major Greek city as heatwave grips Europe
Nikos Papanikolaou & Rachel Hagan Patras & London Watch: Wildfire approaches horse enclosure in Greece A major city in western Greece is under threat from fast-moving wildfires as extreme heat and strong winds drive blazes across much of southern Europe. Searing winds pushed flames into the outskirts of Patras, the country’s third-largest city with a…
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European leaders tentatively hopeful after call with Trump ahead of Ukraine summit
European leaders appeared cautiously optimistic after holding a virtual meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days before he meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Trump reportedly told the Europeans that his goal for the summit was to obtain a ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv. He…
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Wildfire approaches horse enclosure on Chios Island
Locals tried to put out a wildfire threatening a yard of horses on Chios in Greece. The blaze started earlier this week and quickly spread due to strong winds. In the past 24 hours alone, more than 152 new fires have broken out across the country and thousands of people have been evacuated. Around 4,850…
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Mapping Ukraine’s frontlines and ceasefire scenarios
Paul Adams BBC Diplomatic Correspondent BBC Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Alaska on Friday Speculation has swirled over whether the Trump-Putin summit will result in the map of Ukraine being forcibly – and fundamentally – altered. Russia has laid claim to vast parts of Ukraine since 2014, when President Vladimir Putin made…
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South Korea’s ex-first lady arrested in bribery probe
The wife of South Korea’s jailed former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested over a raft of charges, including stock manipulation and bribery. Former first lady Kim Keon Hee denied all charges during a four-hour court hearing in Seoul on Tuesday. But the court issued a detention warrant, citing the risk that she may…
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State of emergency declared in São Vicente and Santo Antão
Cape Verde has declared a state of emergency on the islands of São Vicente and Santo Antão, after deadly floods which killed at least nine people and forced 1,500 from their homes. The state of emergency activates crisis funds and urgent infrastructure repairs in the Atlantic Ocean islands off the west coast of Africa. Monday’s…
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Drones laden with explosives kills three Colombian soldiers
Three soldiers have been killed in a drone attack in south-west Colombia, which authorities have blamed on a dissident rebel group. The devices dropped explosives on members of Colombia’s navy and army, who were manning a checkpoint on the Naya River. Four other members of the security forces were injured in the attack. Drone attacks…