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Thunberg carried away by police hours after fine
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been removed from a protest blocking a road in Malmo, just hours after a Swedish court fined her over a similar action in June. Thunberg, 20, had denied the charge of disobeying a police order, but was found guilty and ordered to pay 2,500 Swedish krona ($240; £187). On both…
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Spotify raises premium subscription price for millions
Reuters By Chloe Kim BBC News Spotify is raising prices for its 200 million ad-free subscribers for the first time in over a decade, the platform has announced. In the US, the cost will increase from $9.99 to $10.99 (£8.57) for those with an individual plan. Similar price hikes also apply to the UK, Canada,…
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Police dog attack on surrendering truck driver in Ohio prompts investigation
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News Ohio authorities are investigating an incident in which a police officer released a dog on a black truck driver who was trying to surrender. The incident, which took place in the…
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Justice department sues Texas over floating barrier
Getty Images The Biden administration has sued Texas over a floating barrier installed by the state in the Rio Grande river to deter migrants on the US-Mexico border. The barrier, made partly of orange buoys attached by webbings, was announced by state’s Republican governor Greg Abbott in early June. Federal authorities believe the barrier illegally…
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Helicopter finds missing toddler in soybean field
Aerial and infrared cameras helped locate and rescue the three-year-old boy who was missing for three hours. After wandering out of his backyard in Ohio, the child reportedly crossed a highway into a corn field, walked along a drainage ditch and was finally found in a soybean field.
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George taught me so much about living – I will miss him terribly
Cambridge Jones They worked together for 20 years and became close friends. Despite increasingly grim news from medics, George Alagiah’s spirit remained indomitable – writes Sophie Raworth. I have a daughter called Georgia. She is 17 years old. In November 2005, on the day she was due to be born, my husband and I walked…
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Rhodes wildfires are ‘like a biblical catastrophe’
By Jenny Hill, correspondent in Rhodes The young woman stares at a charred beach umbrella lying in the sand and sighs. “For the tourists, it was a really terrifying and bad experience, but for us, it’s worse because we live here. Everything is burned.” Edisa, aged 19, who lives in Lindos with her parents on…
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Jane Birkin Paris funeral draws celebrities and crowds
EPA By Robert Greenall BBC News Thousands of fans have lined streets in central Paris to say farewell to English-French star Jane Birkin. The funeral was attended by numerous celebrities, and was live-streamed to crowds outside the Saint Roch church. People held posters and wore T-shirts declaring their love for the star. Though born in…
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Biden to designate national monument for Emmett Till
Getty Images By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York President Joe Biden will establish a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, as well as his mother, a White House official said. Till’s lynching and the activism of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley helped galvanise the civil…