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It’s 4,000 miles from Ukraine
Steve RosenbergRussia editor in Vladivostok BBC All the players in Soyuz, the local Para ice hockey team, lost limbs fighting in Ukraine At an ice rink in Vladivostok in Russia’s far east, 30-year-old Dmitry Afanasyev is in training with teammates from Soyuz, the local Para ice hockey team. The players have removed their prosthetic legs…
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Guyana President Irfaan Ali wins second term in general election
Guyanese President Irfaan Ali has claimed a second five-year term in office, even as official final results from Monday’s general election are yet to be published. Ali’s People’s Progressive Party (PPP) secured at least 242,000 votes in the poll, claiming majorities in eight of the 10 districts in the South American country, according to Reuters…
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How this Afghan family ended up held by ICE in bureaucratic limbo
Nadine YousifBBC News, Toronto BBC News An Afghan woman in Canada says her family has been kept apart by recent changes to US asylum policies under Donald Trump. In a quiet, leafy suburb of Toronto, a 30-year-old Afghan woman spends most afternoons on the phone, hoping she can reach her two younger siblings and father.…
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UK and allies ready to back Ukraine before and after peace deal
Sarah RainsfordBBC Southern and Eastern Europe Correspondent BBC The UK and its allies stand ready to support Ukraine before negotiations to end the war as well as to secure an eventual peace deal, the UK defence secretary says. On the eve of a top-level meeting in Paris, John Healey told the BBC in Kyiv that…
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Record payout for ‘illegal’ Australian welfare scheme victims
Hundreds of thousands of Australians forced to pay back welfare debts created by an illegal automated system have won the largest payout in the country’s history. Known as “Robodebt”, the scheme wrongly told welfare recipients they had been overpaid and demanded they repay these debts, which often never existed. In 2020, a successful class action…
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UAE warns Israel that annexing West Bank would cross ‘red line’
The United Arab Emirates has warned Israel that annexing the occupied West Bank would cross a “red line” and undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalised relations between the two countries. A senior Emirati official, Lana Nusseibeh, said such a move would be the death knell of the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian…
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How China spectacle shows dangers of Trump’s trade policy
Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent Getty Images Chinese soldiers take part the ‘Victory Day’ parade in Beijing The military might of the People’s Republic of China was on full display in a parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two on Wednesday. Thousands of miles away, at the White House in Washington…
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Experts aim to close the language gap
Pumza FihlaniBBC News in Johannesburg BBC Farmer Kelebogile Mosime uses an AI app that speaks her language Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world’s languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates – many are missing when it comes to the development of AI. This is both an issue…
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Ghislandi painting looted by Nazis recovered in Argentina
Tom McArthurBBC News and Chris GrahamBBC News STR/EPA/Shutterstock The painting by Italian artist Giuseppe Ghislandi after it was recovered in Argentina A long lost painting looted decades ago in Nazi occupied Europe has been recovered in Argentina, officials have said. Portrait of a Lady, by Italian master Giuseppe Ghislandi, had been missing for 80 years…
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‘Ketamine Queen’ pleads guilty in Matthew Perry overdose case
Reuters Perry was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home in October 2023 A woman dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” has pleaded guilty to selling the drugs that ultimately killed Friends actor Matthew Perry. Jasveen Sangha, 42, pleaded guilty to five charges in Los Angeles on Wednesday, including one count of distributing ketamine…
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