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Diamonds and diplomacy: How ex-envoy Robert Olson fell from grace
By Holly Honderich in Washington In 2012, when Richard Olson reported to Islamabad to begin his posting as US ambassador to Pakistan, the veteran diplomat was faced with an icy welcome from his host country, angered by the United States’ military raid a year earlier to kill Osama Bin Laden. On the surface, Ambassador Olson…
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Rubiales World Cup kiss row… in 87 seconds
Spain won the Women’s World Cup in August, but the team’s success has been overshadowed ever since by Luis Rubiales’s actions during the celebrations after the final whistle. As the winning team went on stage to receive their medals, the then-head of Spanish football kissed midfielder Jenni Hermoso on the lips – a kiss he…
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BBC correspondent arrives in flood-hit Derna
BBC correspondent Anna Foster is on the ground in the Libyan port city of Derna, where thousands of people were killed when two dams burst in the wake of Storm Daniel. She describes the scene of the disaster, where rescuers, ambulance crews and forensic teams are working fast after whole neighbourhoods were washed away. Figures…
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Berlin protesters condemn Russian soprano Netrebko’s opera performance
By Dearbail Jordan BBC News Protesters have targeted Berlin’s State Opera for refusing to cancel Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko’s first performance there since the 2022 war. Chanting “shame”, they accused the soprano of failing to condemn Vladimir Putin for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Berlin’s mayor, its senator for culture and Ukraine’s German ambassador have…
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Trevor Noah jumps into fan’s car to beat traffic in Johannesburg
By Matt Murphy BBC News We all know that nightmarish feeling in the pit of our stomachs as we realise we’re running late! On Friday, that played out live on air for Trevor Noah. The South African comic was due to appear on the 947 radio station in Johannesburg for a morning chat. But bad…
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Biden: ‘Record corporate profits should be shared’
US President Joe Biden will send two of his aides to Detroit to serve as mediators between the striking United Auto Workers and the ‘big three’ automakers – General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. Biden said the corporations should ‘go further’ in the negotiations.
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UWA strike: Biden says striking car workers deserve ‘fair share’
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US President Joe Biden has sided with workers who have gone on strike in a pay dispute with three of America’s biggest car-makers. Nearly 13,000 staff walked off the job on Friday at three plants owned by…
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Morocco earthquake: The teacher who lost all 32 of her pupils
By Yassmin Farag BBC World Service The thoughts of one Moroccan schoolteacher immediately turned to her pupils when she felt the 6.8-magnitude earthquake strike a week ago. Nesreen Abu ElFadel was in Marrakesh – but Adaseel, the mountain village that was home to her school and pupils, was closer to the epicentre. The Arabic- and…
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Colombian artist Fernando Botero dies aged 91
Colombian artist Fernando Botero, who gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and paintings of corpulent figures, has died at the age of 91. His works feature outsized people and animals. But Botero also tackled politics and other serious subjects. President Gustavo Petro called him “the painter of our traditions and defects, the painter of our…
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Hurricane Lee heads towards New England and Canada
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Chloe Kim BBC News Hurricane Lee is heading north up the Atlantic and is expected to make landfall around Maine and Nova Scotia by this weekend. Lee was a category one storm as of Friday morning,…