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Prince Harry documentary: Duke describes emotional trauma after Afghanistan
By Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent The Duke of Sussex has described his emotional “unravelling” after he returned from military service in Afghanistan in 2013. In a Netflix documentary series about the Invictus Games, Prince Harry said the “biggest struggle for me was that no one around me could really help”. The “trigger” for the duke’s…
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Super blue Moon: Rare spectacle set to light up skies
By Georgina Rannard Science reporter The biggest and brightest Moon of the year will be visible on Wednesday and Thursday from around the world. It will be a rare chance to see what is known as a blue supermoon – the last one was in 2009. A blue Moon happens when the pattern of days…
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Why boycotts eventually fall into ‘the dustbin of outrage’
Some boycotts garner a lot of attention. Yet people generally move on, leaving even the hottest-button issues of consumer umbrage in the past. For the first time in six years, Target announced a sales drop: a decline of 5% in the April to June 2023 period, compared with the same time in 2022. During that…
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Japan PM eats Fukushima fish after radioactive water row
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ate “very delicious” fish sashimi from Fukushima, in a video released by the Japanese government. It follows a row over the discharge into the sea of treated radioactive wastewater from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown. The United Nations atomic energy regulator says the discharge of filtered water into the Pacific…
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Ana de Armas: Judge throws out lawsuit over Yesterday film trailer
By Steven McIntosh Entertainment reporter A US judge has dismissed legal action brought by fans of Ana de Armas after the actress was edited out of a film despite appearing in the trailer. The Knives Out star was in the trailer for 2019’s Yesterday, a film Conor Woulfe and Peter Michael Rosza said they paid…
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Hurricane Idalia strengthens to Category 4 as it nears Florida – live updates
Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be more active than average, and we’re still two weeks away from the peak of the season. The main driving factor is that oceans are a lot warmer than average and it’s these warm waters that fuel the development of hurricanes. Idalia poses…
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Disengaging with China not credible, says James Cleverly
By Stephen McDonell & Kate Whannel BBC China correspondent Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has defended holding talks with Chinese officials in Beijing, saying it would not be “credible” to disengage. Meeting China’s vice president, Mr Cleverly said the trip, the first by a such a senior UK figure in five years, would help avoid “mistrust…
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Coffee Meets Bagel: Dating app users rue missed connections amid outage
Users of the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel have expressed frustration over an ongoing, multi-day system outage. The app – which sells itself as “the dating app for serious daters” – first went down on 27 August, blocking users from their budding romances. It has now been down for three days with firm engineers saying…
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Africa Live: Police arrest hundreds at ‘gay event’ in Nigeria
ReutersCopyright: Reuters The UN and a host of humanitarian agencies are calling on the West African regional bloc, Ecowas, to grant exemptions to the sanctions imposed on Niger in the wake of the coup as they are threatening the health of some of the people. “There is no way to bring humanitarian aid into the…
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Chandrayaan-3: What has India’s Moon rover Pragyaan been up to since landing?
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi Exactly a week ago, India set down a robotic probe on the Moon, becoming the first country to land near the lunar south pole. Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander – carrying a rover in its belly – touched down on the lunar soil after a 20-minute, nail-biting finale watched by millions…