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Niger coup: West African nations to assemble ‘standby force’
Getty Images By Sean Seddon BBC News West African nations have approved armed intervention in Niger “as soon as possible”, the Ivory Coast president says, following a meeting to discuss the coup. At the meeting, leaders of the Ecowas regional bloc said they had agreed to assemble a “standby” military force. Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu…
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Ecuador politician murder suspects are Colombian, police say
Reuters By Ruth Comerford BBC News The six people who have been arrested in connection with the killing of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombian, police say. A seventh suspect, who died from wounds in a shootout with police on Thursday, was also Colombian. Mr Villavicencio was killed leaving a campaign event in the…
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Survivors of the Hawaii fires mourn loss of beloved pets and family homes
Bryce Baraoidan By Madeline Halpert BBC News, New York Bryce Baraoidan could feel the heat coming from the wildfires as he and his family rushed to flee their home of 30 years. On Tuesday, a series of fires broke out across the Hawaiian island of Maui, ravaging Mr Baraoidan’s hometown of Lahaina and burning down…
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Five of the UK’s wildest escapes in pictures
Travel photographer Annapurna Mellor talks about the UK’s wildest escapes, from floating cabins to miniature castles, tree pods to cave houses. More than 84% of people in the UK currently live in urban areas. But this island nation still has an abundance of beautiful, wild open spaces where it’s easy to feel removed from the…
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Below Deck Down Under: Jason Chambers addresses sexual misconduct row
HAYU By Sean Seddon BBC News Captain Jason Chambers from Australian reality series Below Deck Down Under has addressed sexual misconduct on the show’s set. He thanked the production crew for “breaking the fourth wall and stepping in” during two incidents during filming for the new series. Two cast members were seen making unwanted sexual…
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Georgia doctor decapitated baby using ‘excessive force’ in delivery
Google Maps By Ruth Comerford BBC News A doctor decapitated a woman’s baby during a “nightmare” delivery in Georgia, a lawsuit has claimed. Dr Tracey St Julian is being sued for gross negligence by Jessica Ross and Treveon Taylor, whose son died at Southern Regional Hospital during a complicated birth. Several nurses are also being…
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Donald Trump and Walt Nauta plead not guilty to latest charges in documents case
Getty Images By Sam Cabral BBC News, Washington DC Donald Trump and his close personal aide Walt Nauta have pleaded not guilty to the latest allegations in the federal classified documents case. The fresh charges accuse the two men and a third aide of conspiring to conceal surveillance footage at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort from…
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Lahaina: Famous banyan tree and centuries-old church hit by fires
Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News Sites steeped in the history of Hawaii’s royal past, a bustling art scene and the largest banyan tree in the US are just a few of the reasons Lahaina has long been a favourite tourist destination on the island of Maui. More than two million people –…
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Big freeze drove early humans out of Europe
PHILIPPE PSAILA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY By Pallab Ghosh Science correspondent A big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe for 200,000 years, but they adapted and returned, new research shows. Ocean sediments from 1.1 million years ago show temperatures suddenly dropped more than 5C, scientists say. They say our early ancestors couldn’t have…
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Iran releases US dual nationals into house arrest, lawyer says
Free The Namazis By Sean Seddon BBC News Iran has released five US-Iranian dual nationals into house arrest, US officials say Siamak Namazi, Emad Shargi and Morad Tahbaz, who also has a British passport, were released alongside a fourth unidentified man, a lawyer for one of the men said. A fifth American had already been…