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Entire church begins two-day journey across Swedish city of Kiruna
Erika Benke BBC News, Kiruna Reuters The church’s journey across Kiruna began early on Tuesday morning A landmark 113-year-old church at risk from ground subsidence is being relocated in its entirety – in a 5km (3 miles) move along a road in Sweden’s far north. The vast red timber structure in Kiruna dating back to…
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Watch: Zelensky's 'fabulous' suit and other moments from Trump meeting
Ukraine’s president and other European leaders met at the White House to talk peace. Source link
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Croatian ultra-nationalist mega-gig exposes divided society
Guy Delauney BBC Balkans correspondent DAMIR SENCAR/AFP via Getty Images Hundreds of thousands attended a concert by Marko Perkovic in Zagreb A “neo-fascist Croatian Woodstock” or patriotic, anti-establishment fun? Last month’s mega-gig by the ultra-nationalist singer Thompson – the stage name of Marko Perkovic – has dramatically exposed the polarised divisions deep within Croatian society.…
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Pan-Africanism finds fresh momentum in the Caribbean
Wedaeli Chibelushi BBC News Gemma Handy BBC News in St John’s EPA Trinidad and Tobago pays tribute to the nation’s Afro-descendant community on Emancipation Day, which marks the ending of slavery throughout the British Empire Augustine Ogbu works as a doctor, treating patients in clinics across the striking Caribbean island of St Lucia. When he…
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Bindi Irwin says she was made to feel ‘ashamed’ of endometriosis pain
@bindisueirwin / Instagram Bindi Irwin says she’s on the mend after 13 years of endometriosis pain Australian conservationist and TV personality Bindi Irwin has said she is “genuinely healing” after suffering years of pain from endometriosis and called for greater understanding of the condition. Irwin, who first revealed her decade-long struggle with the disease in…
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Swatch apologises for ‘slanted eyes’ ad after uproar in China
Koh Ewe BBC News, Singapore Reuters Swiss watchmaker Swatch has apologised and pulled an ad featuring a model pulling the corners of his eyes, after the image prompted uproar among Chinese social media users. Critics said the pose resembled the racist “slanted eye” historically used to mock Asians. Calls for a boycott of Swatch products…
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Qantas hit with record fine for illegal layoffs during pandemic
An Australian court has fined airline giant Qantas a record A$90m (£43m; $59m) for illegally sacking more than 1,800 ground workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Australia’s Transport Workers’ Union said it welcomed the penalty, which is the largest imposed by a court for violations of industrial relations laws in the country’s history. Federal Court Justice…
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Man saw kaleidoscopic light before going blind
Oli Constable, Katie Roberts and George Sandeman BBC News When Calum Macdonald arrived at the Vietnamese border, he couldn’t read the administrative forms in front of him. All he could see was a “kaleidoscopic blinding light”. He had just stepped off an overnight bus with his friends from the popular tourist destination of Vang Vieng…
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Key takeaways from Ukraine talks in Washington
Bernd Debusmann Jr Reporting from the White House Watch: Key moments from Zelensky-Trump White House talks Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky returned to the White House on Monday to meet US President Donald Trump for fresh talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. Several European leaders also upended their plans to attend the meeting, days…
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War-torn Myanmar to hold first general election since 2021 coup
Myanmar will begin its general elections on 28 December, its military government announced, in a phased poll widely condemned as a sham that will be used to entrench the junta’s power. This will be the first vote since the junta seized power in a bloody coup in 2021, and imprisoned democratically elected leader Aung San…