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Snapped cable caused crash, first report says
Portuguese officials investigating Wednesday’s deadly funicular crash in Lisbon say a cable along the railway’s route snapped, but the rest of the mechanism was functioning properly. “After examining the wreckage at the site, it was immediately determined that the cable connecting the two carriages had given way,” the preliminary report said. The carriages of Lisbon’s…
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Israel destroys second high-rise as assault on Gaza City intensifies
Rushdi AbualoufGaza correspondent reporting from Istanbul and Wyre DaviesBBC News, Jerusalem AFP via Getty Images The Sussi Tower is the second Gaza City high-rise to be destroyed in as many days The Israeli military has destroyed a high-rise block in Gaza City, the second major tower it has targeted in as many days. Defence Minister…
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Mourners pay tribute at public viewing of Giorgio Armani’s coffin
Italian designer Donatella Versace carried a bouquet of white flowers as she arrived to pay tribute to the late fashion designer Giorgio Armani. Armani’s coffin is on public view this weekend in Milan, Italy, before a private funeral on Monday. The designer’s casket was surrounded by candles at the Armani/Teatro as mourners queued to say…
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Chicago braces for Trump’s National Guard plan
Tom BatemanBBC News, in Chicago Getty Images Police remove tents which demonstrators were using to block a vehicle entrance to an ICE facility outside Chicago In the South Side of Chicago, few people seemed braced for President Donald Trump’s troops. But many here would tell you about another battle – one for the souls of…
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South Korea mounts swift response to deal with raid on US facility
South Korea is mounting an “all-out” response, as the country reels over the arrest of more than 300 of its citizens in an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the US. Seoul has dispatched diplomats to the site in Georgia, while LG Energy Solution, which operates the plant with Hyundai, said it was suspending…
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‘Strange noises’ heard before squatter found living in house with lights, TV and bed
A man was discovered living in a crawl space of a home near Portland, Oregon without the owner’s knowledge, authorities say. The man had been living there for an extended period of time, having set up a bed and lights, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said. The owner told deputies no one should be living…
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US reveals plans to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Eswatini
The Trump administration has revealed a plan to deport Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man who has been at the centre of an immigration row, to the southern African kingdom of Eswatini. In an email to his lawyers obtained by the BBC’s US partner CBS, an immigration officer said they were changing last month’s decision…
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Russia will cross Nato border if Ukraine falls, former US VP says
Former US Vice-President Mike Pence has warned that if President Vladimir Putin succeeds with Russia’s war in Ukraine “it’ll only be a matter of time before he crossed the border of a Nato country”. Speaking to BBC Newsnight, Pence called for security guarantees in Ukraine to help deliver “just and lasting peace”. Source link
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Sudanese villagers dig with hands to reach landslide victims, group says
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army This image is thought to show around 40 graves Villagers in a remote area of Sudan’s western Darfur region are trying to reach buried victims by hand after a devastating landslide on Sunday, aid group Save the Children says. “People are excavating by hand to rescue the bodies of their relatives since…
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Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be ‘shot down’ if they endanger US ships
President Donald Trump has warned that, if Venezuelan jets fly over US naval ships and “put us in a dangerous position, they’ll be shot down”. His warning comes after Venezuela flew military aircraft near a US vessel off South America for the second time in two days, US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS…
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