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India bans two drugs behind opioid crisis in West Africa
BBC Eye Investigations BBC World Service BBC Mumbai-based Aveo had been selling the addictive combination in West Africa Indian authorities have banned two highly-addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling a public health crisis in parts of West Africa. In a letter seen by the BBC from India’s Drugs…
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Tens of thousands fighting for Russia are dying unnoticed on the frontline in Ukraine
Olga Ivshina BBC News Russian BBC Daniil Dudnikov was mobilised to fight in the war while studying at Donetsk National University Over 95,000 people fighting for Russia’s military have now died as the war in Ukraine enters the fourth year, according to data analysed by the BBC. This figure doesn’t include those who were killed…
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Archaeologists may have found second Thutmose II tomb
A British archaeologist believes his team may have found a second tomb in Egypt belonging to King Thutmose II. The potential find comes just days after Dr Piers Litherland announced the discovery of the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun’s was revealed over a century ago. Dr Litherland told the Observer he suspects this…
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Has Trump kept his day one promises?
Anthony Zurcher and Tom Geoghegan BBC News, Washington and London BBC Donald Trump made a lot of promises while running for president. He pledged to cut taxes, reduce prices, stem undocumented migration, raise revenue and strengthen American industry with new tariffs and end wars. Some of his proposals were detailed by his policy team or…
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Paul Varry dreamed of a cycling revolution. Then an SUV crushed him
Nathalie Tison Cycling rates in Paris have soared in recent years. But the death of 27-year-old Paul Varry – who was allegedly run over by a driver – has exposed a darker side to Paris’s cycling revolution. “This was not an accident,” Paul’s colleague Corentin believes. We’re standing on the edge of a bike lane…
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Document work or resign, Doge says to US federal workers in email
US government workers received an email on Saturday afternoon asking them to list their accomplishments from the past week or resign – the latest development in the Trump administration’s efforts targeting the federal workforce. The email came after billionaire Trump confidante Elon Musk tweeted that employees would “shortly receive an email requesting to understand what…
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From Baywatch to toxic watch
Getty EPA crew works to remove hazardous waste from beachfront properties destroyed in the Palisades Fire With its sun-drenched lifeguard towers, bronzed surfers and bikini-clad volleyball players, Will Rogers State Beach is one of the most recognizable stretches of sand in the world thanks to the global cult classic “Baywatch”. But now the iconic beach…
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‘The smallest coffins are the heaviest’: Israel grieves youngest hostages
Lucy Manning Special correspondent Reuters Hamas returned the bodies of deceased child hostages Kfir and Ariel Bibas to Israel this week Kfir and Ariel Bibas were last seen on 7 October with their mother Shiri’s hands around them, holding onto her boys surrounded by gunmen and violence, trying to protect them. She couldn’t. According to…
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Mali to investigate claims soldiers ‘executed’ women and children
Mali’s military government says it is investigating allegations that soldiers “coldly executed” at least 24 civilians in the north of the country on Monday. That claim was made by a separatist Tuareg rebel alliance, called Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which is battling the Malian government in the same region. The FLA accuse Malian forces and…
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French prisoner arrested nine months after deadly van ambush
A French convict who went on the run after escaping a police van in a deadly ambush has been arrested in Romania, French authorities have said. Two prison officers were killed and three others injured when a vehicle carrying Mohamed Amra was attacked by men using military-grade assault weapons in May 2024. Amra, known as…
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