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Besieged el-Fasher city residents face starvation, UN warns
The UN’s food agency has warned that families trapped within the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher face starvation. The World Food Programme (WFP) said it had not been able to deliver food to the city in the western Darfur region by road for more than a year. El-Fasher has been surrounded by paramilitary fighters from…
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Family ‘devastated’ after woman kidnapped in Haiti
Universtity of Limerick Gena Heraty was among those taken from the privately-run Sainte-Hélène orphanage in Kenscoff during the early hours of Sunday morning The family of an Irish woman kidnapped from an orphanage in Haiti has said they are “absolutely devastated” and described the situation as “deeply worrying”. Gena Heraty, the facility’s director, was among…
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Netanyahu to propose full reoccupation of Gaza, Israeli media report
Yolande Knell BBC News, Jerusalem Reuters Netanyahu’s plan reportedly faces opposition from military chiefs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet, Israeli media say. “The die has been cast. We’re going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas,”…
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Fireworks ignite as blaze hits Japanese festival launch boats
Launch barges caught fire after pyrotechnics landed on them during a summer fireworks festival in Japan’s city Yokohama on Monday evening. The blaze broke out on two boats being used to launch the fireworks. Five workers were rescued after jumping into the sea, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK. One was taken to hospital with…
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Dozens feared trapped after cloudburst triggers flash floods
Dozens of people are feared trapped after a massive cloudburst triggered flash floods in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Rescue teams, including army personnel, are on their way to Dharali village in Uttarkashi district, which is believed to have borne the brunt of the floods. Videos shared online show a giant wave of water…
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Protests in China over viral school bullying case
A school bullying incident in southern China has sparked a series of protests and calls for more justice for the 14-year-old victim. A video of the girl being slapped, kicked and forced to kneel by three other minors went viral in the Jiangyou city in Sichuan province last week. The police said the three suspects…
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‘I’m upset, angry and disgusted,’ Epstein accuser tells BBC
Jeffrey Epstein accuser Haley Robson has told BBC Newsnight that speculation Ghislaine Maxwell could be pardoned has left her “angry and disgusted”. Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Epstein, was recently moved from a Florida prison to a new minimum-security facility in Texas. She has been at the centre of controversy surrounding the Trump…
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Brazil judge orders house arrest of former president
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered that the former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro be put under house arrest. He is standing trial over allegations he plotted a coup, which he denies. President Donald Trump has used Mr Bolsonaro’s trial, which he calls a “witch-hunt”, as a justification for imposing 50% tariffs on some Brazilian goods despite…
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The BBC visits the Korean survivors of the Hiroshima bomb
Hyojung Kim BBC Korean in Hapcheon BBC/Hyojung Kim Lee Jung-soon, 88, is one of many nuclear bomb survivors who now lives in Hapcheon, South Korea At 08:15 on August 6, 1945, as a nuclear bomb was falling like a stone through the skies over Hiroshima, Lee Jung-soon was on her way to elementary school. The…
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Trump threatens India with ‘substantial’ tariff hike for buying Russian oil
Donald Trump has threatened to “substantially” raise tariffs against India over its purchase of oil from Russia. “They [India] don’t care how many people in Ukraine are being killed by the Russian War Machine,” the US president wrote on his online platform, Truth Social, on Monday. India is currently among the largest buyers of Russian…
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