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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…
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WATCH: Space passengers unbuckle and explore zero-gravity
Footage shows passengers on Virgin Galactic’s first space tourism flight unbuckling their seatbelts and floating around, experiencing zero-gravity. For the first time, a mother and daughter headed to the edge of space. Keisha Schahaff and Ana Mayers won their tickets in a sweepstake. Also on board was 80-year-old Jon Goodwin, who bought his ticket for…
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Ukraine orders evacuation of parts of north-east
Reuters By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News Ukraine has ordered the mandatory evacuation of all civilians from 37 settlements in the north-east as Russia steps up its attacks there. The authorities in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region said they had to act because of “constant Russian shelling” in the area. They said local residents…
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Red, White & Royal Blue is ‘a royal disappointment’
Amazon Prime video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s hit 2019 LGBTQ+ romance novel is disappointingly predictable and clichéd, writes Louis Staples. The best romantic comedies have a specific skill: they can make us surrender our most basic ideas about what we consider to be realistic or plausible, even if they are grounded in a world we…
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Hawaii wildfires: Maps and images reveal devastation
By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News Dozens of people have died and thousands have been told to evacuate their homes after fast-spreading wildfires caused devastation on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The worst hit area has been Lahaina, the beach-front town popular with tourists, where entire neighbourhoods and hotels have been destroyed. .flourish-container{position:relative;color:#404040;font-family:’Helmet’, ‘Freesans’,…
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US YouTuber Kai Cenat charged over NYC riot says chaos was ‘not cool’
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Chloe Kim BBC News, New York US Twitch streamer Kai Cenat has said he is “beyond disappointed” after a chaotic games-console giveaway in New York led to him being charged with inciting a riot. Thousands rampaged…
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Watch: Moment beachgoers escape cliff collapse
Beachgoers had a “lucky escape” after a cliff collapsed in Dorset’s West Bay. Daniel Knagg captured the moment the rockfall started along the South West Coast Path – with a number of people narrowly avoiding the collapse. Dorset Council has released a warning that “rockfalls and landslips” can happen at any time. The authority confirmed…