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Alex Murdaugh loses phone privileges in prison after media call
By Gareth Evans BBC News Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer serving a life sentence for murder, has lost his phone privileges in prison after speaking to the media without permission. The 55-year-old’s lawyer recorded him reading his diary entries during a call in June, prison officials said. The audio was then allegedly given…
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Australia mushroom deaths: Memorial for couple draws hundreds
A memorial service in Australia for the couple who died after eating a mushroom beef Wellington cooked by their former daughter-in-law has drawn hundreds. Gail and Don Patterson were two of three guests who died after the lunch last month at Erin Patterson’s home – an affair that has gripped the nation. Police believe the…
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Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink
By Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent A hacking group called Anonymous Sudan took X, formerly known as Twitter, offline in more than a dozen countries on Tuesday morning in an attempt to pressurise Elon Musk into launching his Starlink service in their country. X was down for more than two hours, with thousands of users affected.…
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Eight startling images of life under the Mafia
As a group photography show about life in Palermo is staged, three of the Sicilian capital’s natives – including a newspaper photographer – tell Harvey Day what it was like to record the Mafia’s terror. If you were a newspaper photographer working in Palermo at the height of the Sicilian Mafia’s power, you had to…
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Sunak to announce new defence secretary as Ben Wallace departs
James Heappey and Liam Fox are two of the well-known names in the frame for the post of Defence Secretary. Heappey, the current Armed Forces Minister, is a former soldier who served in Afghanistan. He has been an MP since 2015. Heappey endorsed former PM Boris Johnson during the 2019 leadership election, and went on…
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Abba’s Agnetha Fältskog returns with solo song: ‘I didn’t know if I could do this’
By Mark Savage BBC Music Correspondent Abba’s Agnetha Fältskog has revealed her first new music in 10 years, a solo song called Where Do We Go From Here? The star says she was was lured back to the studio by producer Jörgen Elofsson, who oversaw her 2013 album, A. “He played me the demo, and…
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South Africa fire: More than 50 dead in Johannesburg tower block blaze
You join us as news reaches us from South Africa that more than 50 people have died following a fire at a block of flats in Johannesburg overnight. There is still an unclear picture as to what sparked the blaze and emergency services tell us the search and recovery of bodies is continuing. Stay with…
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47 dead in Johannesburg apartment block fire
By Antoinette Radford BBC News At least 52 people have died after a fire broke out in a block of flats in Johannesburg, South African authorities say. More than 40 others are injured. Johannesburg authorities say it’s unclear what sparked the blaze at the five-storey building in the city centre. A spokesman for the emergency…
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Andrew Tate: Chats in ‘War Room’ suggest dozens of women groomed
By Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea BBC News Evidence that dozens of women were groomed into online sex work by members of influencer Andrew Tate’s “War Room” group has been uncovered by the BBC. Leaked internal chat logs identify 45 potential victims between March 2019 and April 2020 but the total number is likely to…
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Country Garden: Debt crisis-hit China property giant in record loss
By Annabelle Liang Business reporter Country Garden, one of China’s biggest property developers, has become the latest real estate giant to warn that it could default on its debts. This came as the crisis-hit company reported a record $6.7bn (£5.2bn) loss for the first six months of the year. Country Garden said in the statement…