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Mali charges ex-PM Moussa Mara with undermining the state in X post
A former prime minister of Mali, which is now under military rule, has been charged with undermining the credibility of the state over comments on social media. After a prison visit to see detained opposition figures in July, Moussa Mara declared on X his “unwavering solidarity with prisoners of conscience”. Mara, who served as prime…
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Kites in the crosshairs as planes face peril
Koh Ewe and Hanna Samosir BBC News Reporting fromSingapore and Jakarta Watch: BBC visits field near Indonesian airport where children fly kites At a paddy field two kilometres from Jakarta’s international airport, the rustle of fluttering kites is periodically drowned out by the thunderous roar of plane engines. Tugging at kite strings in the field…
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Manhunt under way after 4 killed
A suspect is on the run after four people were killed in a shooting at a bar in the US state of Montana, authorities say. The shooting happened at The Owl Bar in the city of Anaconda at around 10:30 local time, the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation confirmed to the BBC’s US partner CBS.…
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North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime
Beth Godwin and Julie Yoonnyung Lee BBC Trending & BBC News Getty Images Jin-su says over the years he used hundreds of fake IDs to apply for remote IT work with Western companies. It was part of a vast undercover scheme to raise funds for North Korea. Juggling multiple jobs across the US and Europe…
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Hot dog spill brings US highway to standstill
Thousands of hot dogs spilled onto a highway in the US state of Pennsylvania after a lorry scraped another car, briefly bringing traffic on the road to a standstill. Four people required medical attention following the incident on the Interstate 83 highway, but none of their injuries were life-threatening. Brad Dauberman, a local fire chief…
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Why some Palestinians aren’t convinced by Starmer’s promise
Jeremy Bowen International editor BBC One of the major reasons why Britain’s prime minister Sir Keir Starmer – following France and then in turn followed by Canada – has a plan to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September is to turn the two-state solution into a real diplomatic plan again, instead…
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And Just Like That… Sex and the City reboot will end with third season
And Just Like That…, the reboot of 90s and early noughties show Sex and the City, will come to a close after its third season, HBO has announced. Show runner Michael Patrick King shared the news on Instagram, saying that as he wrote the last episode, “It became clear to me that this might be…
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Trump fires BLS head as tariffs cause stock market drop
Natalie Sherman Business reporter, in New York Watch: Trump defends firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics head over “wrong” numbers US President Donald Trump said he would fire the head of the agency charged with publishing some of America’s most closely watched economic data, after a weaker-than-expected jobs report stoked further alarm about his tariff…
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Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wins first chess competition at Esports World Cup
Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports World Cup. The 34-year-old Norwegian will take home $250,000 (around £188,000). The Esports World Cup (EWC) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest multi-discipline tournaments in competitive professional gaming. The inclusion of chess in this year’s…
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They escaped Ukraine’s frontlines. The sound of drones followed them
Joel Gunter Reporting from Kyiv BBC Pavlo experienced drone warfare. “You are being hunted,” he said. In a cramped apartment in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Pavlo, a 30-year-old drone operator who had recently returned from the front, unzipped a black case about the size of a pizza box. Inside, there was a four-rotor drone he…
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