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Barbie film hits $1bn mark at global box office
Mattel The Barbie film has hit the billion-dollar mark just 17 days after it was released, according to distributor Warner Bros. The movie will finish the weekend with $1.03bn (£808m) in ticket sales at the global box office, it said in a statement on Sunday. It means Greta Gerwig has become the first woman to…
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Floods Slovenia’s ‘worst-ever natural disaster’
The extreme flooding in Slovenia has caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage and killed at least three people, according to the country’s prime minister, Robert Golob. The devastating weather has been labelled the country’s worst-ever natural disaster after the Environmental Agency issued a red warning. Rescuers are now trying to reach flooded…
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Donald Trump says he will ask the Judge to step aside
Reuters By Ece Goksedef BBC News Donald Trump has said he will ask the judge in his election fraud case to step aside on what he called “very powerful grounds”. He claimed that “there is no way I can get a fair trial” unless she does. His call came after the prosecution requested a court…
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Ukraine’s Motherland statue gets ‘a stronger identity’
The Soviet-era emblem on Kyiv’s Motherland statue has been replaced with the Ukrainian coat of arms. The tryzub emblem is said to represent a stronger self-identity for Ukraine. The works are set to be complete by the country’s independence day on 24 August.
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‘We can’t win forever’: Fans react as US World Cup reign ends
EPA-EFE By Shaimaa Khalil In Sydney “Frankly we’re confused,” one stunned USA fan told me as I turned to her after the final whistle. She was wearing red, blue and white with stars and stripes from head to toe – at that moment she and probably thousands of others were dumbfounded by what just happened.…
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Minibus plunges down Morocco ravine killing 24
Getty Images Twenty-four people have died in Morocco after the minibus they were travelling in plunged down a ravine in a mountainous area, authorities say. The bus was taking people to market in central Morocco, when it overturned on a bend, local media say. The cause of the accident on the road to the town…
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Imran Khan: Is Imran Khan’s political future over now he is in jail?
Reuters By Carrie Davies in Islamabad BBC News Imran Khan has been arrested for the second time in a matter of months, but this time the reaction looks very different. What could happen next? There could not have been a starker contrast between 9 May and 5 August this year. While Imran Khan’s first arrest…
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Two migrants dead, 30 missing after shipwrecks off Italian coast
Italian coastguard By Charlene Anne Rodrigues BBC News At least two people have died and more than 30 are missing after two ships carrying migrants sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the UN’s migration agency said on Sunday. The two boats had set off from the port of Sfax in Tunisia carrying 48 and…
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At least 15 killed and dozens injured in Pakistan train accident
AFP By Aoife Walsh BBC News At least 15 people have been killed and dozens injured when a train derailed in southern Pakistan, local media say. Several coaches of the Hazara Express overturned near Sahara railway station in Nawabshah, about 275km (171 miles) from the largest city Karachi. Wounded passengers have been moved to nearby…
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Niger coup: Ecowas deadline sparks anxiety in northern Nigeria
Gift Ufuoma/BBC By Chris Ewokor BBC News, Sokoto Niger’s military junta has just hours to restore ousted President Mohamed Bazoum to power or face the possibility of military action from the regional bloc Ecowas. Last Sunday, West African leaders gave the coup leaders a week to comply with its demands or it would “take all…