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Mahsa Amini: Protesters mark one year since death of Iranian student
By Fiona Nimoni BBC News The death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022 after being detained by Iran’s morality police sparked protests unlike any the country had seen before. To mark the one year anniversary of her death, thousands of people all around the world have taken to the streets to demonstrate. A really…
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Greece floods: Austrian honeymooners killed after holiday home swept away
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News An Austrian couple on their honeymoon in Greece are confirmed to have died after torrential rains swept away the house they were staying in. Their holiday home in the resort of Potistika,…
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‘This was a riverbed, it’s just a wasteland now’
The Libyan city of Derna has been left devastated after floods swept through it a week ago. There are fears for survivors in the city, with not enough medicine and clean water for those who have been made homeless. Thousands of people were killed when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel, washing…
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Libya floods: A barren wasteland with a lingering smell of death
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Anna Foster BBC News, Derna The journey to eastern Libyan city of Derna takes twice as long now. Driving along the road from Benghazi, fields turn into rust-red lakes. As you get closer, the traffic begins…
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Rugby fans treat Nice to Welsh hymn
Wales fans following the team at the Rugby World Cup treated Nice to a rendition of the hymn Calon Lan ahead of the match against Portugal. The singers performed for a crowd of onlookers in cafes and pubs near the Stade de Nice. Calon Lan, which was written in the 1890s by Daniel James, means…
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Who is Russell Brand, the comedian and actor accused of rape and sexual assault?
By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter Russell Brand, who has been accused of sexual assault by four women, is a comedian and broadcaster who helped shape pop culture in the late noughties. The 48-year-old, who was born in Essex, surged to fame as the host of Big Brother’s Big Mouth, and went on to star in…
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Derna: ‘There’s a smell of decay and death in the air’
Rescuers in Libya’s Derna have told the BBC that bodies are continuing to wash up in the sea, a week on from the devastating floods which swept through the eastern city. A Turkish team said they removed three bodies from the water just on Saturday morning. There are fears for survivors in the city, with…
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Russell Brand posts video denying ‘serious criminal allegations’
Russell Brand has released a video in which he denies “serious criminal allegations” that he says will be made against him. The actor and comedian said he had received letters from a TV company and newspaper, containing “a litany” of “aggressive attacks”. The BBC understands that a number of women will make serious allegations about…
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Lampedusa: Italy recovers body of newborn baby from migrant boat
By Rob Corp BBC News The body of a newborn baby has been recovered from a boat carrying migrants during a rescue operation off the Italian island of Lampedusa. The mother is thought to have given birth during the journey from North Africa, the Ansa news agency says, and the death is being investigated. More…
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Ukraine’s Crimea attacks seen as key to counter-offensive against Russia
By Paul Adams Diplomatic correspondent, in Kyiv This week saw spectacular Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula, hitting Russian warships and missiles. Estimates of the damage done ran into billions of pounds and raised the question: is Ukraine getting ready to retake Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014? Crimea is a Russian fortress, so it…