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Ecuador prison violence: Dozens of guards taken hostage
By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News More than 50 prison guards and seven police officers have been taken hostage in several jails in Ecuador, according to officials. Two car bombs also went off in the capital Quito, both targeting the country’s prisons authority (SNAI). Nobody was hurt in the bombings and at least six people have…
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Donald Trump’s Georgia case to be livestreamed
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A judge has ruled that court proceedings against former US President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in their Georgia election fraud case will be televised. The trial will also be live-streamed on YouTube, Fulton County Superior Court…
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Ukraine war: UK defence giant BAE Systems sets up local base
By Peter Hoskins Business reporter UK defence giant BAE Systems has set up a local entity in Ukraine and signed deals to help ramp up supplies of weapons and equipment to Kyiv. The firm says the move will allow it to work directly with Ukraine to explore potential partners and ultimately produce light artillery there.…
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‘Any story could be your last’ – India’s crackdown on Kashmir press
By Yogita Limaye BBC News, Srinagar On 5 April 2022 a sense of joy pervaded the Sultan household in Batamaloo in central Srinagar. It was a sunny spring day in Indian-administered Kashmir, and after more than three and a half years of visits to courts and police stations, they had received good news – Asif…
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Hawaii wildfires: Oprah and The Rock pledge direct payments to victims in Maui
By Max Matza in Seattle BBC News Dwyane “The Rock” Johnson and Oprah Winfrey have created a fund to make direct payments to people in Hawaii who have been affected by Maui wildfires. The People’s Fund of Maui aims to make monthly payments of $1,200 (£950) to the thousands of victims of the fires that…
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Jet ski tourists shot dead off coast of Algeria
By George Wright BBC News The Algerian coastguard have reportedly shot dead two tourists holidaying in Morocco who strayed into Algerian waters on their jet skis. They were among four French-Moroccan dual nationals who had set off by jet ski from the Moroccan resort of Saidia. A third member of the group was arrested by…
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What a doctor’s death in a lift tells us about Africa’s debt crisis
By Joe Inwood, Newsnight & Nkechi Ogbonna in Lagos BBC News Friends of a doctor who died in Nigeria because the lift in her hospital accommodation fell nine floors with her inside are not surprised by a new study that reveals the country spends twice as much money on debt repayments as on health and…
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Ukraine war: Back to school under Russian attacks
By Vitaly Shevchenko BBC Monitoring It was a quiet summer morning in Romny, a provincial town in northern Ukraine. As Tetyana Prokopenko, a local headteacher, left for work last Wednesday, she told her husband she had to hold some meetings to prepare for the new term. Shortly after 10:00 local time she would be dead,…
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When a child is shot, doctors must heal more than just bullet holes
By Rebecca Hartmann BBC News in Washington, DC With the number of young people shot by guns on the rise in the US, a children’s hospital in the heart of the America’s capital is trying to break the cycle of violence. In the emergency room at Children’s National hospital in Washington, DC, hospital beds line…
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Africa’s week in pictures: 25
A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week: Images subject to copyright. Around the BBC The Comb podcasts Africa Today podcasts