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Angola’s Isabel dos Santos hits out over UK’s ‘dirty money’ sanctions
Angolan tycoon Isabel dos Santos, once dubbed “Africa’s richest woman”, has hit out at the UK for imposing sanctions on her, telling the BBC the move came as a surprise as she had not been found guilty of “any corruption in any court in any country”. Last month, the daughter of Angola’s former president was…
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Trump to meet TikTok CEO as ban deadline looms
US President-elect Donald Trump is meeting the CEO of TikTok as the social media giant fights plans to have it banned in the US. Trump was due to meet Shou Zi Chew at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reports, citing sources familiar with the meeting. A law…
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The bomb violence killing and maiming children
Ronny Sen for the BBC Puchu was nine when he struck what he thought was a ball, causing a deadly explosion Over the last three decades, at least 565 children in the Indian state of West Bengal have been injured or killed by home-made bombs, a BBC Eye investigation has found. So what are these…
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Three dead, six injured in Abundant Life Christian School shooting in Wisconsin
Watch: ‘Enough is enough’ – Three dead in Wisconsin school shooting A teacher and a teenaged student were killed and six others were injured in a shooting at a school in Wisconsin, police say. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes said the suspect, a teenager who was a student at the Abundant Life Christian School in…
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BBC witnesses Saydnaya prison’s foul and pestilent atmosphere
BBC/Fred Scott Saydnaya prison sits on a forbidding hill about half an hour’s drive from the centre of Damascus. In the last few days the entrance has been repainted in the green, white and black of Syria’s revolutionary flag. The new colours did not dispel the sinister atmosphere of the place. As I walked through…
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Kenyan photographer gets 50 years for murdering LGBTQ+ activist
Kenyan photographer Jacktone Odhiambo has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for murdering his housemate, LGBTQ+ activist Edwin Kiprotich Kipruto, popularly known as Edwin Chiloba, nearly two years ago. Judge Reuben Nyakundi said the decades-long sentence was based on the “diabolical manner” of the killing. Chiloba, a 25-year-old fashion designer, was smothered to death…
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Iran pauses controversial new dress code law
Iran’s National Security Council has paused the implementation of the controversial “hijab and chastity law”, which had been due to come into force on Friday. President Massoud Pezeshkian called the legislation “ambiguous and in need of reform”, signalling his intention to reassess its measures. The proposed new law – which would introduce harsher punishments for…
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Fear of a reckoning simmers in Assad’s Alawite heartland
Quentin Sommerville joins HTS forces as they makes arrests on the streets of Latakia Noor stands trembling in the chill afternoon light of the courtyard, not from the cold, but from fear. Dressed in her thick winter coat, she has come to make a complaint to the men of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Syria’s new…
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Hamas-run ministry says Israeli strikes kill 50
AFP Many of those killed on Sunday were in a school-turned-shelter in the southern city of Khan Younis More than 50 people were killed in Israeli air and ground attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to local medics and rescuers. They said children, a cameraman who worked for the Al Jazeera TV network…
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Guido Burgstaller skull fractured in attack in Vienna
Austria striker Guido Burgstaller had his skull fractured when he was attacked in the centre of the country’s capital city, his club Rapid Vienna have said. Rapid said the 35-year-old is expected to be out of action for several months after suffering the “serious head injury” at the weekend. They say the former Cardiff City…
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