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Former US President Bill Clinton admitted to hospital with fever
Former US President Bill Clinton has been admitted to a hospital after developing a fever, according to a spokesman for the Democrat. “He remains in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving,” Angel Ureña wrote on X, formerly Twitter. He said Clinton was admitted to Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington,…
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Uganda’s Kizza Besigye to spend Christmas in prison with no family visit
The wife of detained Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has denounced as “cruel and inhumane” a ban on prisoners receiving visitors on Christmas Day. Besigye, 68, has been charged in a military court with possession of pistols and attempting to purchase weapons abroad, which he denies. His trial has been delayed until next month. Prison…
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The town in Georgia where everyone has to own a gun
BBC Guns – from antique rifles to Glocks – are James Rabun’s family business Kennesaw, Georgia, has all the small-town fixings one might imagine in the American South. There’s the smell of baked biscuits wafting from Honeysuckle Biscuits & Bakery and the rumble of a nearby railroad train. It’s the kind of place where newlyweds…
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On patrol with UN forces inside gang warzone
Jack Garland, BBC Venda hopes her two-year-old daughter Shaina will pull through Two-year-old Shaina is hooked up to an intravenous drip at one of the few functioning hospitals in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Her mother, Venda, desperately hopes it will alleviate the acute malnutrition the emaciated young girl is suffering from. Shaina is one of 760,000…
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Gaetz paid ‘tens of thousands’ for sex and drugs, ethics report says
Reuters Former Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz spent tens of thousands of dollars on sex and drugs while serving as a US congressman, according to a long-awaited report from the House of Representatives ethics committee. It follows a years-long investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use by Gaetz, who President-elect Donald Trump wanted…
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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano sends jets of lava into the air
Kilauea volcano, on Hawaii’s Big Island, started spewing fresh lava at around 02:00 local time (12:00 GMT), according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Officials say there is no immediate danger to residents as volcanic activity is currently limited to a confined area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. They have warned the most immediate threat is…
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Greenland tells Trump it is not for sale
Greenland has once again said it is not for sale after US President-elect Donald Trump said he wanted to take control of the territory. “Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland,” its prime minister said on Monday, a day after Trump repeated comments about the Arctic island that he first made several years ago. Greenland,…
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What you need to know
Getty Images From the moment Justin Baldoni announced in 2019 that he was adapting the best-selling book It Ends With Us into a film, there was a widespread frenzy. There are few books in recent years that have become as big a cultural phenomenon as Colleen Hoover’s novel – it has sold 20m copies and…
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Scientists unveil 50,000-year-old baby mammoth carcass
Russian scientists have unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in thawing permafrost in the remote Yakutia region of Siberia during the summer. They say “Yana” – who has been named after the river basin where she was discovered – is the world’s best-preserved mammoth carcass. Weighing in at over 100kg (15st 10lb),…
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Cargo ship tips on its side in Turkey
A ship docked at a port in Istanbul rolled on its side in the early hours of Monday morning, sliding its cargo into the water. The ship, called Anmah, became unbalanced because of unequal loading of containers onto the vessel, according to local reports. All 15 crew members escaped without coming to serious harm, though…
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