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India and Canada appoint top diplomats after 10 months
India and Canada have appointed new high commissioners to each other’s countries, in the latest step to restore ties strained by the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in a Vancouver suburb in 2023. India’s previous high commissioner left Canada last October after Ottawa expelled him, linking six diplomats to the murder of Hardeep Singh…
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New video appears to show New Zealand fugitive dad
New Zealand police have released fresh CCTV footage believed to show a fugitive who disappeared more than three years ago with his three children. The night-time footage shows two people in full-body clothing – who police are “confident” is Tom Phillips and one of his children – apparently breaking into a store before driving away…
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Rohingya refugees: ‘India put us on the boat like captives
Samira HussainSouth Asia Correspondent, BBC News, Delhi BBC Soyed Noor (centre) and some of the other refugees spoke to the BBC via a video call from Myanmar Noorul Amin last spoke to his brother on 9 May. The call was brief, but the news was devastating. He learned that his brother, Kairul, and four other…
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Father of child killed in Minneapolis shooting speaks out
Jesse Merkel, whose eight-year-old son Fletcher was killed during a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday, read a family statement outside the church targeted by the attacker. He described his son as a loving boy who enjoyed fishing, cooking and sports. “We will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with…
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National security or xenophobia? Texas restricts Chinese owning and renting property
Mengchen ZhangBBC Global China Unit, reporting from Texas Office of the Texas Governor A signing ceremony of Governor Greg Abbott took place on 26 August Jason Yuan, a second-hand car shop owner, closes the hood of a vehicle after tightening the last nut on the battery terminal – a routine he is all too familiar…
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BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
Kristina VölkBBC News and Kevin NguyenBBC Verify BBC An international network of spammers are posting AI-generated images of Holocaust victims on Facebook, a BBC investigation into “AI slop” has found. Organisations dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust say the images are leaving survivors and families distressed. They have also criticised Facebook’s parent company…
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Israel struck Gaza’s Nasser Hospital four times, analysis finds
Merlyn Thomas, Benedict Garman & Sebastian VandermeerschBBC Verify Videos show where Israel struck Nasser Hospital at least four times Israel struck Nasser Hospital at least four times during its deadly attack in southern Gaza on Monday, an analysis of new video footage by BBC Verify has found. The attack, which has attracted international condemnation and…
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South Korea is celebrating K-pop Demon Hunters
Netflix When a South Korean monk performed a Buddhist ritual for a wildly popular K-pop boy band, it was the most unusual ceremony he had ever held. His mission: to guide the souls of the band to peace and rebirth. The band were long gone – or rather, they had never been alive, except in…
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Minneapolis school attacker ‘obsessed with idea of killing children’, officials say
Tom BatemanBBC News, Minneapolis and Max MatzaBBC News Watch: Minneapolis shooter “wanted to watch children suffer”, says official Investigators say that the attacker who opened fire on pupils as they were praying at a church in Minneapolis was “obsessed with the idea of killing children”. Robin Westman, who killed two children and injured 18 others,…
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Witnesses describe Minneapolis Catholic school shooting
Tom Bateman and James FitzGeraldBBC News, Minneapolis and London Getty Images Witnesses to a mass shooting in the US city of Minneapolis have described the “terrifying” scenes after an attacker opened fire on a church in which children were celebrating Mass on Wednesday morning. One young boy described being protected by a friend who got…
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