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‘I missed Lisbon funicular commute that killed my friend’
As Sonia Silva prepared to leave work on Wednesday evening, she was asked by a colleague to help with a quick task. It meant she missed her regular funicular ride down the hill with a work friend on their commute home from the office in the centre of Lisbon. When she arrived at the stop…
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Hamas releases video of two Israeli hostages held in Gaza
Hamas Guy Gilboa-Dalal is seen in the video shared by Hamas, claiming to be in Gaza City Hamas has released a video showing two Israeli hostages seized from a music festival during its cross-border attack in October 2023. The video claims to show Guy Gilboa-Dalal in Gaza City in late August, where he says he…
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How Europe went from Merkel’s ‘We can do it’ ten years ago to pulling up the drawbridge
Fergal KeaneSpecial correspondent BBC The day they appeared he could hardly believe his eyes. Small boat after small boat bearing in from the Turkish side. “I have so many memories that are coming back to me now,” says Paris Laoumis, 50, a hotelier on the Greek island of Lesbos. “There were people from Syria, Afghanistan,…
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Indian doctors remove rare parasitic twins from baby’s stomach
Indian doctors have successfully removed “parasitic twins” – two foetuses that were growing inside the abdomen of a 20-day-old baby. Called foetus in foetu, the condition is extremely rare, with fewer than 200 cases reported worldwide until now, a handful of which were in India. The condition develops early in pregnancy when a malformed foetus…
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Rajasthan farmer gives up home so children can study there
Abhishek DeyBBC News, Delhi Riyaz Khan Makeshift classrooms have been set up in Mor Singh’s house An Indian farmer from the hilly village of Piplodi in the western Indian state of Rajasthan has found himself in an unlikely spotlight. Mor Singh, 60, never went to school but his selfless act of handing over his house…
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Aid workers use donkeys to reach Tarasin village in Darfur
Aid workers on donkeys have delivered the first humanitarian supplies to survivors of a landslide that reportedly killed hundreds of people in a remote mountain village in Sudan’s western Darfur region. Heavy rains and flash floods that hit Tarasin village triggering the disaster on Sunday have continued, meaning donkeys are the only way to reach…
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South Koreans detained in ICE raid at Hyundai electric vehicle site in Georgia
US immigration authorities have raided a massive Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, leading to the arrest of over 450 people, according to one of the agencies involved in the operation. The 3,000-acre site, which was built by the Korean automobile manufacturer to make electric vehicles, had been operational for a year. The Department of Homeland…
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Arundhati Roy’s fierce memoir on life with her mercurial mother
Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent AFP via Getty Images Roy’s debut The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker and made her a celebrity at 36 “Someone once asked me what my mother’s greatest legacy to me was,” Arundhati Roy said at a private gathering in the Indian capital, Delhi, recently. “I said an overactive middle…
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Thailand names third prime minister in two years
Jonathan HeadBBC News, Bangkok and Joel GuintoBBC News, Singapore Getty Images Anutin is Thailand’s third prime minister in two years Thailand’s parliament has chosen business tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul as the country’s prime minister – the third in two years, after yet another leader was removed from office. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who belongs to Thailand’s most powerful…
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BBC correspondent at scene of Lisbon funicular crash
At least 16 people have been killed after a funicular cable railway derailed and hit a building in Portugal’s capital Lisbon. More than 20 others were injured, including four Portuguese, two German and two Spanish nationals – authorities say a three-year-old child was also hurt. Local police are investigating the cause of the crash. Source…
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