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Dutch Grand Prix 2023: Zandvoort imposes car ban on travelling F1 fans
Getty Images By Anna Holligan BBC News, Zandvoort The Dutch Formula One (F1) is a petrolhead event minus the petrol. The Grand Prix is taking place in a tiny coastal town which is locked down to visitors’ cars for the entire weekend, with many fans arriving by bicycle. Perched atop a ladder on the edge…
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Spain Hermoso kiss: What’s happened so far?
Protesters rallied at the Spanish Football Federation HQ to demand the resignation of Luis Rubiales after he kissed Jenni Hermoso on the lips, following Spain’s World Cup win. Hermoso, a midfielder, has said the kiss was not consensual. But Rubiales, who is president of the Spanish Football Federation, denies this and says it was “spontaneous”…
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The science behind the Fukushima waste water release
Getty Images By Navin Singh Khadka Environment correspondent, BBC World Service Japan has begun releasing treated radioactive water from its damaged Fukushima power plant into the Pacific Ocean – 12 years after a nuclear meltdown. That’s despite China slapping a ban on Japanese seafood and protests in Japan itself and South Korea. The UN’s atomic…
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Wagner in Africa: Precarious future after Prigozhin’s reported death
Reuters By Dr Alex Vines Chatham House Cradling a rifle, dressed in a military uniform and with a desert in the background, Yevgeny Prigozhin had a message for Africa. His Wagner group of mercenaries was “making Russia even greater on every continent – and Africa even more free”. “Justice and happiness for the African nations,”…
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Reading and Leeds Festival: Billie Eilish brings Barbie to life during cathartic headline set
Getty Images By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter at Leeds Festival Billie Eilish brought Barbie to life at Leeds Festival on Friday, performing her latest celluloid hit in the middle of a cathartic and career-spanning set. It saw her become the event’s youngest solo headliner, surpassing London rapper Dave from last year. At the age of…
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He spread conspiracies about elections. Now he oversees them
Scott Morgan By Mike Wendling BBC News in Iowa A controversy over conspiracy theories that has engulfed a small Iowa county shows the continuing power of Donald Trump’s false claims about election fraud. Like millions of other Americans, David Whipple was enraged by the 2020 election. “The left has tried real hard to steal our…
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Week in pictures: 19-25 August 2023
A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Carl Recine / Reuters James Manning / PA Media Zinyange Auntony / AFP Tomas Cuesta / AFP Sakis Mitrolidis / AFP Bryan Woolston / Reuters R Satish Babu / AFP Hammad Al-Huthali / AFP Ernesto Benavides / AFP All…
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Pakistan cable car: From panic to relief, survivors recall harrowing ordeal
Getty Images By Azizullah Khan, Farhat Javed & Kelly Ng in Battagram, Islamabad and Singapore It started out a routine Tuesday morning. Car mechanic Gulfaraz had planned to accompany his nephew to school and then go home. They made the journey as they had done for years – on a makeshift cable car that would…
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Gladstone family urged to pay slavery reparations to Jamaica
University of Guyana By Joshua Nevett BBC News The descendants of former Prime Minister William Gladstone are facing calls to pay reparations to Jamaica for an ancestor’s role in slavery. The Gladstone family apologised for its slaveholding past in Guyana and pledged to fund research into slavery and other projects at a ceremony on Friday.…
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Crystal Bar vape giant deletes TikTok after giveaway with no age verification
By Ben King Business reporter, BBC News The UK’s second-largest vape company took down social media accounts after sending vapes to reporters in an online giveaway without age verification. Chinese government-owned SKE has seen rapid growth in sales of its Crystal Bar disposable vapes, which have been criticised for appealing to children. In an exclusive…