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Algeria to expel 12 officials from French embassy
Algeria has asked 12 French embassy staff to leave the country within 48 hours, France’s foreign minister has said. Jean-Noel Barrot added that it was linked to the indictment of three Algerians in France on Friday, one of whom is a consular official. They are accused of involvement in the abduction last year of Amir…
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What do people think of Australia’s housing crisis this election?
The BBC spoke to voters in Sydney, Australia about the country’s housing crisis ahead of the federal election on 3 May. From feeling trapped in renting, to wanting more investment in public housing, residents share their experiences and what they’d like to see the government do to help. More on this story. Source link
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Two British tourists drown near Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. A boy, 17, and a man, 46, were swept out to sea on Sunday while swimming at a beach without lifeguards in Seventeen Seventy – a town in Queensland named for the year…
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Centre-right leader wins re-election in Ecuador
Ione Wells South America correspondent Reuters Noboa told reporters in Santa Elena there was “no doubt as to who the winner” in the run-off vote was Sitting centre-right President Daniel Noboa has won the run-off round of Ecuador’s presidential election, meaning he will now serve a full four-year term. Noboa, who described his victory as…
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Aimee Lou Wood calls SNL White Lotus sketch ‘mean and unfunny’
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch that impersonated her using exaggerated prosthetic teeth “mean and unfunny”. The British actress said the US comedy programme “punched down” on her and suggested the sketch was misogynistic. In a series of Instagram posts, Wood wrote that she was happy…
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Giant of Latin American literature
Getty Images Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy. With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely translated, Vargas Llosa…
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South Africa to re-open inquest into Nobel laureate’s death
A South African court is due to re-examine the circumstances around the death of one of the most renowned campaigners against the racist system of apartheid, which had initially been described as accidental. A 1967 inquest ruled that Chief Albert Luthuli was walking on a railway line when he was struck by a train and…
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Ukraine’s allies condemn Russia over missile attack in Sumy
A Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, which killed 34 people – including two children – and injured 117 others, has been strongly condemned by Kyiv’s Western allies. Two ballistic missiles struck the city centre mid-morning on Sunday, exploding near the state university and congress centre, leaving bloodied bodies scattered in the…
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Torrential rain sweeps across Spanish Canary Island
Hundreds of homes and roads on Lanzarote have been flooded, after torrential rainfall swept across the Canary Island on Saturday. Lanzarote’s government declared a state of emergency overnight after 6cm (2.4 inches) of rain poured down on the popular holiday destination in just two hours. No injuries have been reported by the Spanish authorities –…
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Teen killed parents as part of Trump assassination plot, says FBI
A high school student from Wisconsin killed his parents as part of a larger plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump, the FBI has said. Nikita Casap, 17, has been charged with the killing of his mother, Tatiana Casap, 35, and his stepfather Donald Mayer, 51, who were found dead at their home on 28…
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