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Why the world is watching RFK’s fight with US health agency
AP In fiery Senate testimony this week, US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr once again set his sights on the nation’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). His appearance came days after he suddenly fired the new CDC director, Susan Monarez, provoking a group of senior staff to resign…
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New Bollywood romcom sparks debate over stereotyping south India
Meryl SebastianBBC News, Kochi and Anahita SachdevBBC News, Delhi Maddock Films The film is a love story between a woman from the southern state of Kerala and a man from Delhi in northern India A new Bollywood film has reignited an age-old conversation around how India’s largest and most influential film industry represents characters from…
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Judge rules ending protections for Venezuelan and Haitian migrants is unlawful
The Trump administration’s effort to strip hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan and Haitian migrants of legal protections is unlawful, a US judge says. The ruling by District Judge Edward Chen sets aside the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) attempt to end temporary protected status (TPS) for people from countries experiencing conditions that make it dangerous…
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Boko Haram kills at least 60 in overnight attack
The jihadist group Boko Haram has killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State, local officials say. On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing at least five soldiers. The Nigerian Air Force said it killed 30…
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The sunscreen scandal shocking Australia
Tabby Wilson and Tiffanie TurnbullBBC News, Sydney Marianna Massey/Getty Images Sunscreens are at the heart of a national scandal in Australia Like many Australians, Rach grew up “terrified of the sun” in the country with the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. Her childhood was characterised by the infamous “no hat, no play”…
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Snapped cable caused crash, first report says
Portuguese officials investigating Wednesday’s deadly funicular crash in Lisbon say a cable along the railway’s route snapped, but the rest of the mechanism was functioning properly. “After examining the wreckage at the site, it was immediately determined that the cable connecting the two carriages had given way,” the preliminary report said. The carriages of Lisbon’s…
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Israel destroys second high-rise as assault on Gaza City intensifies
Rushdi AbualoufGaza correspondent reporting from Istanbul and Wyre DaviesBBC News, Jerusalem AFP via Getty Images The Sussi Tower is the second Gaza City high-rise to be destroyed in as many days The Israeli military has destroyed a high-rise block in Gaza City, the second major tower it has targeted in as many days. Defence Minister…
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Mourners pay tribute at public viewing of Giorgio Armani’s coffin
Italian designer Donatella Versace carried a bouquet of white flowers as she arrived to pay tribute to the late fashion designer Giorgio Armani. Armani’s coffin is on public view this weekend in Milan, Italy, before a private funeral on Monday. The designer’s casket was surrounded by candles at the Armani/Teatro as mourners queued to say…
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Chicago braces for Trump’s National Guard plan
Tom BatemanBBC News, in Chicago Getty Images Police remove tents which demonstrators were using to block a vehicle entrance to an ICE facility outside Chicago In the South Side of Chicago, few people seemed braced for President Donald Trump’s troops. But many here would tell you about another battle – one for the souls of…
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South Korea mounts swift response to deal with raid on US facility
South Korea is mounting an “all-out” response, as the country reels over the arrest of more than 300 of its citizens in an immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in the US. Seoul has dispatched diplomats to the site in Georgia, while LG Energy Solution, which operates the plant with Hyundai, said it was suspending…
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