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More than a dozen robbers storm jewellery shop in California
An 88-year-old jewellery store owner in San Jose is recovering after being assaulted during a violent smash-and-grab robbery. Source link
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Norway’s left clinches vote win as populist right surges into second place
Norway’s Labour party under Jonas Gahr Støre has won a second term in general elections, ahead of a populist right-wing party that doubled its vote. In a country used to minority governments, Labour has a chance of forming a narrow two-seat majority in the 169-seat Storting, if it secures the support of four smaller parties…
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At least 10 dead after train hits bus
At least 10 people have been killed and more than 40 injured after a freight train crashed into a double-decker bus in central Mexico, authorities have said. The incident happened as the bus, operated by the Herradura de Plata bus company, was making its way into an industrial zone south of the Atlacomulco area, outside…
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Israel orders all Gaza City residents to evacuate ahead of assault
Israel has warned all residents of Gaza City to leave immediately in anticipation of a huge ground offensive. The military’s Arabic spokesman told as many as one million Palestinians living in Gaza’s biggest urban centre to evacuate southwards. “Remaining in the area is extremely dangerous,” he said. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said…
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IS-linked rebels accused of killing more than 50
Rebels linked to the Islamic State (IS) group have killed more than 50 people at a funeral ceremony in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials have said. Most of the victims were hacked with machetes in the night-time assault by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) on a village in North Kivu province, officials added. This…
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Ivory Coast’s ex-first lady cleared to contest presidential election
Ivory Coast’s former First Lady Simone Gbagbo, 76, is the surprise inclusion in a list of five candidates who have been officially cleared to contest next month’s presidential election. She will run against President Alassane Ouattara, 83, who took power after she and her former husband, Laurent Gbagbo, were captured in a presidential bunker during…
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Jeffrey Epstein files and ‘birthday book’: What we know
Stuart LauBBC News and Sarah SmithNorth America editor US Department of Justice/PA Handout photo issued by US Department of Justice of Jeffrey Epstein standing in front of his private plane A US congressional panel has released a redacted copy of an alleged “birthday book” given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 celebrating his fiftieth birthday. The…
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Diplomacy in ruins after Israel strikes Hamas leaders in Qatar
Jeremy BowenInternational editor CCTV captures moment of Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha Almost exactly a year ago I interviewed the Hamas leader and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya in Doha. I met him in a house not far from the building that Israel attacked on Tuesday afternoon. From the beginning of the war in…
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Abducted Israeli-Russian researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov freed in Iraq
An Israeli-Russian researcher has been released after “being tortured for many months” by her Iraqi militia abductors, US President Donald Trump has announced. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “I am pleased to report that Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton student, whose sister is an American citizen, was just released by Kataib Hezbollah, and…
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Russian air strikes get deadlier and bigger, hitting Ukraine’s very heart
Sarah RainsfordBBC correspondent in Kyiv Inside Kyiv government building hit by missile strike Ukraine has shown reporters fragments of the missile it says hit a key government building in Kyiv this weekend, identifying it as a Russian Iskander cruise missile. Officials here now believe the building was struck deliberately in the early hours of Sunday…
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