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Agnipath scheme: The pain of Nepal’s Gurkhas over Indian army’s new hiring plan
Getty Images For decades, Nepal has allowed its ethnic Gurkha soldiers to join the Indian army under a special agreement. The practice came to an abrupt halt last year after India introduced a controversial new army hiring plan, straining ties between the two neighbouring countries. The BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan reports. The Gurkhas, famed for their…
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Amsterdam: The European capital fighting bad tourists
The Dutch capital is only home to about 800,000 people but draws up to 20 million tourists a year. Now, new policies are encouraging sustainable tourism to everyone. On a recent weekday, sunlight streamed through the clouds high above Amsterdam, casting rays on the city’s gabled buildings, its arching bridges and a sign in English…
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How the workplace became the star of TV
Whether in the kitchen or finance world, work-centric shows have rocketed in popularity. This entertainment is hitting the sweet spot for audiences in spades. In Carmen Berzatto’s frantic kitchen at The Bear, you can slice through the tension with a butter knife. While the Roy siblings tussle for power at Waystar Royco, the fists-out conflict…
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France to ban female students from wearing abayas in state schools
AFP By Ece Goksedef BBC News Students will be banned from wearing abaya, a loose-fitting full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, in France’s state-run schools, the education minister has said. The rule will be applied as soon as the new school year starts on 4 September. France has a strict ban on religious signs…
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Jacksonville shooter, 21, who killed three ‘wrote racist manifestos’
Reuters By Antoinette Radford BBC News A man who shot dead three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida wrote of his hatred of Black people, police have said. Twenty-one year old Ryan Christopher Palmeter fired eleven rounds at one woman sitting in her car in Jacksonville, before entering a shop and shooting another…
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Hallstatt: Austrian town protests against mass tourism
AFP By Bethany Bell BBC News, Vienna Locals in the Austrian town of Hallstatt have taken part in a protest against mass tourism. Hallstatt, which is a World Heritage Site, has just over 700 inhabitants – but gets up to as many as 10,000 visitors a day during high season. Residents are calling for limits…
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Cruise ship and freight ship collide amid storm
Passengers on board a British cruise ship filmed the aftermath of it breaking free from its moorings and colliding with a freight ship amid a sudden storm. They said a “huge storm” rolled into Palma, Mallorca, tearing the the Southampton-based Britannia from its moorings and carrying it into a freighter. Passenger Peter Andrew Hunt captured…
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In pictures: Children’s day at Notting Hill Carnival
PA Media The future of the Notting Hill Carnival was at the forefront on Sunday as the traditional children’s day parade wound through the streets of west London. The family-friendly day is designed to encourage the next generation – and hundreds of youngsters donned their glad rags and turned out to dance along the route.…
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Nessie hunters hear sounds but fail to record them
Reuters The mystery of the fabled Loch Ness monster endures despite a weekend of mass-participation Nessie hunting. About 200 volunteers kept a lookout for mysterious events from the shoreline, but spotted nothing unusual. Observers on a boat using acoustic equipment reported four unidentified “gloops” but then realised their recording device wasn’t plugged in. Organisers said…
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Southampton cruise ship hit by sudden storm in Spain
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Passengers on a cruise ship said it broke free from moorings and collided with a freight ship amid a storm. Passengers on Britannia, a P&O Cruises ship based in Southampton, Hampshire, said it happened as a “huge…