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Atlanta ‘Cop City’: Dozens face racketeering charges for protests
By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington More than 60 activists are facing racketeering charges for allegedly conspiring to stop construction of a controversial police training centre in Atlanta. Prosecutors allege that the defendants are “militant anarchists” who illegally occupied areas around the centre. The site at the heart of the case, dubbed “Cop City”…
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Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
By Max Matza BBC News A Florida man was arrested after trying to “run to London” across the Atlantic Ocean in a homemade, human-powered hamster wheel-type vessel. The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island, Georgia on 26 August. Officials said the 44-year-old marathon runner refused to leave the…
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DNA exonerates man 47 years after rape conviction
By Chloe Kim BBC News After 47 years, a New York man has been exonerated after new DNA testing conclusively excluded him as the perpetrator of a 1975 rape. This is the longest known wrongful conviction in US history to be overturned by DNA evidence. The true perpetrator, a convicted sex offender, has confessed to…
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Daniel Abed Khalife: Manhunt after ex-soldier on terror charges escapes from prison
Daniel Abed Khalife is a 21-year-old former soldier who had been based at the MoD Stafford military base – also known as Beacon Barracks. He disappeared from the barracks on 2 January after an alleged bomb hoax, a court heard, before he was arrested a few weeks later on 26 January. A prosecutor told Westminster…
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Scientists grow whole model of human embryo, without sperm or egg
By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent Scientists have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say their “embryo model”, made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo. It even released hormones that turned a…
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Hunt for prisoner Daniel Abed Khalife after Wandsworth prison escape
By Sean Seddon and Daniel Sandford BBC News A manhunt has been launched for a former soldier suspected of terror offences who escaped from prison on Wednesday morning. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was awaiting trial after being accused of leaving fake bombs at a military base. He escaped from HMP Wandsworth, London, and is thought…
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Ukraine war: Romania reveals Russian drone parts hit its territory
By Sarah Rainsford Eastern Europe correspondent Romania’s defence minister has said that remains of a drone used in a Russian attack on a Ukrainian port have been found on Romanian territory. His comments follow two days of him and other senior officials “categorically” denying any cross-border incident. Ukraine had insisted it had evidence of the…
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Runrig singer Bruce Guthro dies aged 62
Runrig lead vocalist Bruce Guthro has died, MP and former bandmate Pete Wishart has said. Singer-songwriter Guthro joined the Scottish rock band in 1998 and remained with the group until its final performances in 2018. Mr Wishart said the 62-year-old Canadian had been an exceptional singer, musician and songwriter. He added: “He was just the…
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Kostyantynivka attack: Number killed in Russian attack could rise beyond 16 – Zelensky
Videos circulating on social media appears to show the moment of the explosion – and its graphic aftermath. “The Russian troops are terrorists who will not be forgiven and will not rest,” Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal says. “There will be a fair retribution for everything.” President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russian artillery was responsible and…
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Kenyan baby stealer convicted after BBC expose
By Joel Gunter & Anna Payton BBC Africa Eye A Kenyan hospital employee who was caught by the BBC selling a baby on the black market has been convicted of child trafficking. Fred Leparan, who worked at Nairobi’s Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital, was filmed accepting $2,050 (£1,600) to sell a baby boy under the hospital’s…