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Maui fire: Search for victims intensifies after 80 deaths
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News Additional expert support has been deployed to Hawaii, where forensic work is continuing to find victims of the devastating wildfires. At least 80 people are known to have died but there are…
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‘Don’t Ask Why’: South Korea grapples with back-to-back ‘Mudjima’ stabbings
EPA By Frances Mao BBC News A knife darting out in a packed subway car. An assailant, chasing shoppers, stabbing wildly in the street. These nightmares have played out in the minds of many South Koreans following a mass stabbing attack last week – the country’s second in as many weeks. On 3 August, 14…
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Can this battery-swapping bike tech unchoke cities? We took a ride
Across Asia, by far the most popular form of personal transport is the motor scooter. Thailand has 20 million of them, Vietnam 45 million, and Indonesia more than 80 million. They are cheap and convenient – but polluting. To cut emissions, cities need to switch to a clean, electric alternative. But how? One Taiwanese company,…
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Operation Lone Star: Girl, 3, dies on Texas migrant bus
EPA By Charlene Anne Rodrigues BBC News US health officials are investigating the death of a three-year-old Venezuelan girl travelling with her parents on a bus carrying asylum seekers from Texas to Chicago. Thousands of migrants have been sent from Texas to Democratic Party-run US cities under a controversial scheme. The girl was taken to…
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Ecuador murder: Fernando Villavicencio’s running-mate steps in to contest election
Reuters By Graeme Baker BBC News The running-mate of a murdered Ecuadorian politician is to contest the presidential election in his place. Fernando Villavicencio was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in Quito. Police say all suspects are Colombian. His Construye party said it would put Andrea Gonzalez forward as its…
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Watch: Drone footage shows mass devastation in Maui
Video footage captured by a drone shows the destruction caused by wildfires that swept through the historic town of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Dozens of people on the island have died in the wildfires, with scores of buildings and vehicles also being destroyed. The coastal town attracts some two million tourists a…
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Niger coup: President Mohamed Bazoum ‘in good spirits’ despite detention
AFP By Graeme Baker BBC News Niger’s president is in “good spirits” despite being held in “difficult” conditions by the junta that deposed him, his doctor has said after a visit. Mohamed Bazoum, his son and wife have been held in the basement of his palace in Niamey since the coup on 26 July. “Living…
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South Africa mass shooting: Manhunt launched in KwaZulu-Natal
Getty Images By Cecilia Macaulay BBC News A massive manhunt has been launched in South Africa after a mass shooting in which six people died, police say. Four suspects allegedly shot the victims in Umzali, KwaZulu-Natal, before midnight on Friday, initial information suggests. One of the suspects believed that one of the victims had his…
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Fukushima nuclear disaster: Activists march against Tokyo’s waste plan
Reuters Hundreds of people in South Korean took to the streets of Seoul on Saturday to protest against Japan’s contentious plan to release treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Tokyo is set to release the water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant later this month. It has been approved by the UN nuclear watchdog,…
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