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Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup plot
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged by the country’s chief prosecutor with attempting a coup after he was defeated in the 2022 presidential election. The 69-year-old was handed five charges over the alleged bid to prevent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from taking office after a bitter election race. The prosecutor’s advice…
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Even in his final seconds of life, first gay imam pushed boundaries
Khanyi Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg AFP The execution-style killing of an openly gay imam, Muhsin Hendricks, in South Africa has left people in the LGBTQ+ community fearful for their safety – but also determined to forge ahead with the campaign to end their marginalisation in religious circles. Reverend Toni Kruger-Ayebazibwe, an openly gay Christian cleric,…
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A$AP Rocky guilty/not guilty of firearm assault on LA street
Rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend. A jury in Los Angeles acquitted the musician, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, on two felony assault charges that carried up to 24 years in prison. Terell Ephron claimed the Grammy-nominated hip-hop star opened fire at him during…
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Passenger films his escape from upside down crashed plane
A passenger has filmed his escape from an upside down plane after it skidded along a runway during a failed landing. Video from inside the crashed plane at Toronto airport shows passengers clambering over belongings and seats to exit the aircraft. Crew on board the flight can be heard telling people to leave everything behind…
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Pope Francis has pneumonia in both lungs, Vatican says
Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both his lungs and his condition remains “complex”, the Vatican says. The 88-year-old has been suffering from a respiratory infection for more than a week and was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Friday. “The follow-up chest CT scan which the Holy Father underwent this afternoon… demonstrated the onset…
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Russia back at table with US
The sight of senior Russian and American officials back around a giant negotiating table is extraordinary. For many, most of all Ukrainians, it will have been very hard to take. In Saudi Arabia, Moscow achieved something major: after three years of all-out war on its neighbour and isolation by the West, it was back at…
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No sign of a quick peace for Trump in Ukraine
Jeremy Bowen International editor Reporting fromSumy, northern Ukraine Getty Ukraine’s battlefield is far from the air-conditioned rooms of Saudi Arabia, where US and Russian delegations met The Russians and Americans are talking again, as European leaders and diplomats contemplate the hard choices forced on them by US President Donald Trump. Without question, Trump’s diplomatic ultimatum…
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RSF kills 200 civilians in White Nile state, say activists
More than 200 unarmed civilians have been killed in a cluster of villages in Sudan over three days by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that is involved in a brutal conflict with the military, a local rights group has said. The Emergency Lawyers network said the attacks happened in al-Kadaris and al-Khelwat towards the…
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Aviation experts analyse Delta plane crash
On Monday afternoon a Delta Air Lines plane crashed as it came in to land at Toronto Pearson Airport in Canada, miraculously there were no fatalities. Lecturer and former commercial pilot Marco Chan and aviation expert Professor Graham Braithwaite have spoken to the BBC and analysed video footage of the moment the plane crashed. It…
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Russia won’t accept Nato troops in Ukraine, Lavrov says after talks with US
Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC Monitoring’s Russia editor RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / HANDOUT Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said his country won’t accept peacekeeping forces from Nato countries in Ukraine under any peace deal, following high-level talks with the US in Saudi Arabia. “Any appearance by armed forces under some other flag does not change anything.…
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