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Woman charged after 1.5m euros of gold stolen from Paris museum
A Chinese-born woman has been charged for the theft of six gold nuggets worth about 1.5 million euros ($1.75m; £1.3m) from the Museum of Natural History in Paris last month, French prosecutors have said. The woman was arrested in Barcelona trying to dispose of some melted gold, according to officials, and is being held in…
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Sanae Takaichi makes history as Japan’s first female prime minister
Shaimaa KhalilJapan correspondent and Yvette TanSingapore The moment Sanae Takaichi wins Japan’s lower house Sanae Takaichi has been elected Japan’s prime minister by parliament, making her the first woman to hold the office. The 64-year-old won a clear majority on Monday – 237 votes in the powerful Lower House and another 125 in the Upper…
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Day after Diwali, India capital wakes up to toxic haze
India’s capital Delhi woke up to a toxic haze as air quality worsened after the Hindu festival of Diwali, despite a court directive to use less-polluting crackers. People in the city and its suburbs burst crackers late into Monday night, defying the court’s order to use only ‘green’ fireworks for a limited period of time.…
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Sarkozy heads to jail over campaign financing
Paul KirbyEurope digital editor and Hugh Schofieldin Paris Reuters Sarkozy kissed his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy as he prepared to enter jail, surrounded by supporters Nicolas Sarkozy will become the first French ex-president to go to jail, as he starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator…
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Daniel Naroditsky, US chess grandmaster, dies aged 29
Charlotte Chess Center Daniel Naroditsky, also known to his online fans as ‘Danya’, died two weeks out from his 30th birthday US chess grandmaster and online commentator Daniel Naroditsky has died aged 29. The popular chess player’s family announced his “unexpected” death in a statement released by his club, the Charlotte Chess Center, on Monday.…
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Amazon services ‘recovering’ as Snapchat and banks among sites hit by outage
Liv McMahonTechnology reporter and Lily JamaliNorth America Technology Correspondent Getty Images Amazon Web Services (AWS) said late Monday that it had resolved a massive outage that knocked some of the world’s largest websites offline for much of the day. More than 1,000 apps and websites – including social media platforms like Snapchat and banks such…
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Driver dies after basketball fans’ bus attacked with stones
A bus driver has died after being hit when a coach carrying supporters of an Italian basketball team was attacked with stones, allegedly by rival fans. Pistoia Basket fans were travelling on the highway near the town of Rieti, 80km (50 miles) north-east of Rome, when fans of SRS Sebastiani Rieti began throwing objects, according…
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Hamas is a shadow of what it was
Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem and Rushdi AbualoufGaza correspondent BBC How does a group that has governed the Gaza Strip for almost 20 years, ruling two million Palestinians with an iron rod and fighting Israel in repeated wars, suddenly lay down its arms and relinquish control? Judging by a steady stream of gruesome images emerging from…
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Former NFL player Doug Martin dies in police custody in California
Former National Football League (NFL) running back Doug Martin has died aged 36 while in police custody in California. The Oakland Police Department said the former American football star – who spent most of his career with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers – died after being involved in an alleged home break-in and a struggle with…
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Catholic clergy sex abuse victims hopeful after Pope Leo meeting
Survivors of sex abuse by members of the Catholic clergy have expressed hope after meeting Pope Leo at the Vatican for the first time. Gemma Hickey, board president of Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA Global), told the BBC it spoke “volumes” he had met them so soon in his papacy. The group is pushing for a…
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