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World’s thirst for the tea swallows global supplies
Osmond Chia Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images Matcha mania is sweeping the world. The bright green Japanese tea can be found in everything from Starbucks’ lattes in the UK to Krispy Kreme doughnuts in Singapore. The global matcha craze is being driven by social media, with influencers sharing brewing tips, reviews and recipes. The…
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What is inside the GHF food box being distributed in Gaza
Kevin Nguyen and Alex Murray BBC Verify Reuters More than two million Palestinians in Gaza are facing a starvation crisis, with deaths from malnutrition rising by the day, according to the United Nations. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a group backed by Israel and the US, has been operating in Gaza since late May. It…
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Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants
A Southwest Airlines plane rapidly dropped in elevation after departing from the Los Angeles area on Friday, with passengers posting online that the pilot was forced to rapidly change course to avoid a potential collision with another aircraft. Flight 1496 from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Las Vegas plummeted rapidly, lifting passengers out of their seats…
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Trump and golf – striking balls and deals over 18 holes
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent EPA Trump at his National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia Mick Mulvaney thought he had beaten Donald Trump. The president and his White House chief of staff were playing golf at Trump’s Bedminster club in 2019, and Mulvaney was up by one stroke with three holes left. “I slapped him…
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Social media war flares up amid border clashes
Koh Ewe BBC News, Singapore Reuters As the border clashes this week killed more than a dozen people in Thailand and Cambodia, regional governments have been trying to prevent a war between the two countries. But a different kind of war between their citizens is already raging – via increasingly belligerent exchanges on social media.…
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School-leavers losing their lives for Russia in Putin’s war with Ukraine
Anastasia Platonova & Olga Ivshina BBC News Russian VK/BBC Alexander (L) and Vitaly died not long after they arrived on the frontline in February Vladimir Putin has repeatedly promised that no 18-year-olds called up to serve Russia will be sent to fight in Ukraine, but a BBC Russian investigation has found at least 245 soldiers…
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Zambia’s Stary Mwaba mines the toxic legacy of the Copperbelt’s ‘black mountains’
Stary Mwaba Zambia’s notorious “black mountains” – huge heaps of mining waste that scar the Copperbelt skyline – are deeply personal to Stary Mwaba, one of the country’s leading visual artists. “As kids, we used to call it ‘mu danger’ – meaning ‘in the danger’,” Mwaba tells the BBC. “The ‘black mountain’ was this place…
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UK condemns Hong Kong cash offer for help in arresting activists
The UK has condemned the latest cash offer from Hong Kong authorities for people who help in the arrest of pro-democracy activists living in Britain. In a joint statement, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper described the move as “another example of transnational repression”. People are being offered between $25,000 (HK$200,000) and…
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Mother of starving baby speaks to BBC
Hedaya al-Muta’wi’s 18-month-old son Mohammed suffers from malnutrition due to famine and weighs just 6kg. He suffers from fatigue and can no longer stand or sit up. She told the BBC “my husband was killed in the war and I don’t have a breadwinner, except God”. She said she works hard and labours to provide…
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Taiwan holds controversial vote targeting ‘pro-China’ lawmakers
Tessa Wong BBC News, Asia Digital Reporter BBC / Tessa Wong Several of the Kuomintang lawmakers facing the recall vote appeared at an anti-recall rally last weekend Thousands of Taiwanese are heading to the polls in an unprecedented and controversial vote aimed at ousting lawmakers accused of being too close to China. More than 30…
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