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Wonsan Kalma: My trip to North Korea’s ‘Benidorm’
Yaroslava Kiryukhina BBC News Russian Anastasia Samsonova Anastasia Samsonova was among the first group of tourists to visit Wonsan Kalma’s beaches It was the security guards accompanying Anastasia Samsonova’s group that suggested this wasn’t a typical beach holiday. In July, the 33-year-old human resources worker was one of the first tourists to stay at a…
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North Korean leader oversees new missile test, state media says
North Korean state media has said two new air defence missiles have been fired in a test overseen by the country’s leader Kim Jong Un. The weapons had “superior combat capability” and used a “unique technology”, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said, without adding details. The launches, carried out on Saturday, “proved that the…
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Male ‘sexually stimulated’ to avoid inbreeding
AFP Wikie, pictured with her calf in 2011, are still being kept at a facility in southern France A male killer whale at a closed marine zoo is being sexually stimulated by his trainers to stop him inbreeding with his mother. Marineland Antibes shut in January but managers, the French government and animal rights activists…
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What we learned from Menendez parole hearings
James FitzGerald & Henri Astier BBC News Reuters Erik (left) appeared before his parole board a day before his brother Lyle (right) Erik and Lyle Menendez were denied parole after appearing before separate boards in California this week. The brothers have spent decades behind bars for killing their wealthy parents in 1989. They claimed self-defence,…
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Pope Leo XIV says UK’s Chagos Islands deal ‘significant victory’
EPA Pope Leo XIV met members of the Chagos Refugees Group in Vatican City Pope Leo XIV has said he is “delighted” the UK has agreed to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Speaking to a delegation of 15 refugees from Chagos, Pope Leo said that the move represented a “significant victory” in their long…
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Would you work for no pay? The question behind the Air Canada strike
Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Getty Images For decades, North America’s flight attendants were not paid for work they did on the ground When Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job earlier a week ago, they had one rallying cry: “Unpaid work won’t fly.” It was a reference to the long-standing practice in North…
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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts creating lava fountain
Huge fountains of lava have sprayed 100ft into the air in the most recent eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano. Video released by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) shows Kilauea, located on Hawaii’s Big Island, erupting for the 31st time in less than a year – making it one of the world’s most active volcanoes.…
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US government wants to deport Kilmar Ábrego García to Uganda
Less than 24 hours after his release, US authorities have informed Kilmar Ábrego García that he may be deported to Uganda, following his refusal to accept a plea deal in a pending criminal trial, his lawyers say. Attorneys for Mr Ábrego García say he declined an offer to plead guilty to human smuggling charges in…
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Emily in Paris assistant director dies ‘suddenly’ during filming
Alamy A man working on the hit show Emily in Paris has died during filming in Venice for the fifth season. La Repubblica named the man as 47-year-old Diego Borella, who was an assistant director on the show. Medics were called to Hotel Danieli in the city at around 19:00 local time (18:00 BST) on…
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Pentagon fires intelligence chief after Iran attack assessment
Rachel Muller-Heyndyk BBC News Reuters Lt Gen Jeffrey Kruse will no longer serve as head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s intelligence agency chief, just weeks after a White House rebuke of a review assessing the impact of American strikes on Iran. Lt Gen Jeffery…
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