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Netanyahu accuses Starmer of siding with Hamas
Jamie McConkey & Yang Tian BBC News Reuters Israel’s PM has accused the leaders of the UK, France and Canada of being on “the wrong side of history” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders have “effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power”. He also accused British,…
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A Philippines island defying Beijing in the South China Sea
Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent Reporting fromPagasa Island, Philippines BBC/VIRMA SIMONETTE Fisherman Larry Hugo, right, was nearly rammed by a Chinese coastguard ship At just 37 hectares, the Philippines-controlled island of Pagasa – or “hope” – is barely big enough to live on. There is almost nothing there. The 300 or so inhabitants live…
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How the mask slipped during US fugitive’s court saga
Steven Godden BBC Scotland News PA Media Nicholas Rossi first came to public attention in the UK after his arrest in December 2021 I first met Nicholas Rossi – or Arthur Knight, as he insisted on being called – in February 2022 in a corridor at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. He was there to fight extradition…
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Top Maoist leader Basavaraju killed as India cracks down on rebels
A top Maoist leader has been killed fighting with Indian security forces in the central state of Chhattisgarh. Nambala Keshava Rao, who is also known by several alias, including Basavaraju, was among 27 rebels killed on Wednesday, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said. One police officer was also reported to have died in the fighting.…
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BBC Verify investigates Israel’s strike on Gaza’s European Hospital
On Tuesday 13 May, Israeli strikes on the European Hospital in Gaza killed 28 people and injured dozens, according to the Hamas-run civil defence agency. BBC Verify analysed footage, gathered witness testimony and spoke to munitions and legal experts to examine how one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals came under Israeli attack. Expert analysis and…
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Denmark to raise retirement age to highest in Europe
Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe after its parliament adopted a law raising it to 70 by 2040. Since 2006, Denmark has tied the official retirement age to life expectancy and has revised it every five years. It is currently 67 but will rise to 68 in 2030 and to…
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The South African road incorrectly identified as a ‘burial site’ by US president
Pumza Fihlani BBC News, Normandein BBC The murder of Roland Collyer’s aunt and uncle in 2020 led to the creation of the temporary crucifix memorial featured in President Donald Trump’s video on Wednesday The P39-1 is an anonymous stretch of thinly tarred highway connecting the small towns of Newcastle and Normandein in South Africa, a…
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Starbucks avoids brewing controversy by banning presidential candidates’ names
Yuna Ku BBC Korean Service Getty Images Starbucks has temporarily disabled the use of seven particular names on its app Walk into any Starbucks in South Korea right now, and there are some names you definitely won’t be hearing. Six to be exact – and they happen to be the names of the candidates running…
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German troops permanently sent to Lithuania’s eastern border
Germany has made its first permanent foreign military deployment since World War Two, sending troops to Lithuania’s eastern flank. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and defence secretary Boris Pistorius attended an inauguration ceremony for the deployment, in the company of Lithuania’s president Gitanas Nauseda, in the country’s capital city of Vilnius. “Peace in Europe has been…
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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Oval Office confrontation with Cyril Ramaphosa
Peter Mwai, Matt Murphy, Jake Horton & Joshua Cheetham BBC Verify BBC Donald Trump confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa during a tense exchange in the White House on Wednesday, with a series of contested claims about the killings of white farmers in South Africa. The meeting – at first warm and light-hearted – quickly changed tone…
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