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BBC in Gaza: ‘Panic, fear and chaos’
There is panic, fear and chaos in Gaza after Israel intensified its airstrikes in the heaviest bombing of the war to date, the BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf in Khan Younis says. Communications to and from the Gaza Strip have ceased after the internet and phone lines were cut. Israel says it has also moved to expand…
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Video appears to show Israeli ground forces in Gaza
Video released by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) appears to show dozens of Israeli tanks and military vehicles in Gaza. Israel’s military has said it is expanding its ground operations and that overnight “around a hundred fighter jets” were used to bombard the Gaza Strip. The IDF did not specify where in Gaza the footage…
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What happened in Gaza overnight?
Israeli warplanes have carried out heavy airstrikes on Gaza overnight and into the morning, with huge explosions seen in the territory, while also announcing that its ground forces were “expanding operations”. Meanwhile, internet and electricity has gone down in Gaza, with about 2.3 million people living there being cut off from the outside world. BBC…
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Kazakhstan mine fire leaves at least 21 dead
By Ruth Comerford BBC News At least 21 people have died in a fire at a mine in Kazakhstan, owned by steel giant ArcelorMittal. The blaze came on the same day Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ordered investment in the company to be halted as he wants it to be nationalised. A further 23 of the…
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Maine mass shooting suspect found dead
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Holly Honderich in Maine and Max Matza BBC News A man suspected of killing 18 people in a shooting in Maine has been found dead after a three-day manhunt, police say. “The suspect in Wednesday night’s…
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Alien language: If we met extraterrestrials, could we talk to them?
Alien lifeforms are likely to have evolved their own unique ways of communicating, so how might humanity communicate with them if ever make contact? “We know where to look. We know how to look.” That’s what then Nasa’s chief scientist Ellen Stofan said in 2015 when she predicted we might find alien life within the…
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Week in pictures: 21-27 October 2023
A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week.
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History of slavery haunts the royals
By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent King Charles’s state visit to Kenya next week will have plenty of toasts of friendship, but it also promises to address the “painful aspects” of the past relationship with Britain. The legacy of colonialism, with thorny questions and calls for apologies and reparations, will be an inescapable talking point on…
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A Turkish secret hiding in plain sight
In the border city of Gaziantep, a secret jazz cafe is helping residents reconcile with the city’s turbulent past and offering hope for the future. On Wednesday and Saturday nights, if you follow the narrow, stone streets in Gaziantep, Turkey’s old Armenian district to an unmarked silver door and knock three times, you’re in for…
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The man rescuing Britain’s ‘magical’ glow worms
By Helen Briggs Environment correspondent “The fascination of glow worms for me is that they are in effect magic,” says ecologist Pete Cooper, as he tramples through thistles and nettles. “The glow worm has been the symbol of the other world, of love, of hope, of rebirth, of simply the great mysteries of nature.” The…