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Watch: Germany grapples with another Christmas market attack
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Swimming mouse among 27 new species discovered in Peru
Ronald Diaz/ Conservation International An amphibious mouse with webbed feet and a blob-headed fish are among 27 new species scientists have discovered in Peru. They were found in an expedition to Alto Mayo – which includes the Amazon rainforest – by scientists from the non-profit organisation Conservation International and members of local indigenous groups. Up…
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Houthi missile strike in Tel Aviv wounds more than a dozen
A Houthi missile strike has injured more than a dozen people in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Israeli military said attempts to shoot down a projectile launched from Yemen had been unsuccessful and it landed in a public park early on Saturday. A Houthi military spokesman said the group hit a military target using a hypersonic…
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Boy, 8, saves classmate with Heimlich manoeuvre
A US primary schoolboy has been hailed as a hero after he saved his classmate from choking on a grape. Thomas Conley, eight, was sitting next to Isaiah Rodriguez in the cafeteria of Porter Elementary School when he noticed the medical emergency. Video footage from the hall in Mesa, Arizona, shows Thomas performing the life-saving…
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US deportations under Biden surpass Trump’s 2019 record
US immigration authorities last year deported the largest number of undocumented immigrants in nearly a decade, surpassing the record of Donald Trump’s first term in office. More than 271,000 immigrants were deported from the US over the last fiscal year, according to a report released by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on…
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Inside the abandoned homes of Assad’s enforcers
BBC Jamil Hassan, one of the most feared men in Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime, wanted for the torture and killing of civilians, was shaking as he walked down the stairs of his apartment block. Outside, the 72-year-old climbed into a car in a small convoy with his family and a handful of security guards, just…
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Mayotte: Survivors describe cyclone horror
BBC/Ed Habershon Zinedane Mohamed’s family “lost everything” during in Cyclone Chido On the night Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, Zinedine was in his home, a small house made of corrugated iron and wood where he lives with eight of his relatives. Zinedine had received a warning from the authorities about…
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Nigerian Igbos form running club in the UK to strengthen bonds
Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBC At London’s famous Hyde Park at around 11:00 on a crisp Saturday morning, runners gather at some benches – some tall and lean, others broad and sturdy, a few logging into the Strava app, but one common thread unites them – most of them are Nigerians of Igbo extraction. This…
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Ros Atkins On… Four reasons why the relationship between the UK and China is strained
This week, Yang Tengbo was identified as the 50-year-old Chinese businessman and alleged spy banned from the UK. It has triggered questions on an issue multiple UK governments have grappled with – the UK’s relationship with China. As the UK’s chancellor prepares to visit China in the new year, the BBC’s Analysis Editor Ros Atkins,…
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One woman’s fight to free her brother from Japan’s death row
Getty Images Hideko Hakamata, 91, fought half her life to free her brother – the world’s longest serving death row inmate When a court declared Iwao Hakamata innocent in September, the world’s longest-serving death row inmate seemed unable to comprehend, much less savour the moment. “I told him he was acquitted, and he was silent,”…