Israel has extended the administrative detention of 23-year-old Mohammad Khdeirat, a cancer patient from Al-Khalil, for another six months, marking his third consecutive detention order.
Initially arrested on June 1,…
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Polish knife-edge presidential vote pits liberal mayor against conservative
Adam EastonBBC Warsaw correspondent
ReutersRafal Trzaskowski (L) has a narrow lead in the polls over national conservative historian Karol Nawrocki (R) Poles will vote for a new president on Sunday in a tight election that will have major…
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Five musicians murdered in suspected Mexican cartel killing
ReutersThe musicians were last seen in the Mexican city of Reynosa, near the US border Five musicians who disappeared in the Mexican city of Reynosa, near the US border, were murdered by suspected drug cartel members, Mexican authorities have…
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Hamas official says it rejects new US Gaza ceasefire plan backed by Israel
Rushdi AbualoufGaza correspondent
ReutersIsrael resumed its military offensive against Hamas in Gaza in mid-March following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire A senior Hamas official has told the BBC the Palestinian armed group will reject the…
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Swiss glacier collapse: How the village of Blatten was wiped off the map
“I was speechless,” said Matthias Huss, a leading glacier specialist at Zurich’s Federal Institute of Technology. “It was the worst case that could happen.” Mr Huss had been aware…
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World has responsibility to get aid into Gaza, UN official tells BBC
Gaza has been subjected to forced starvation by Israel, a top UN official has told the BBC.
Tom Fletcher told special correspondent Fergal Keane that the world has a responsibility to take greater action to get aid into Gaza and to “act to…
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How the West is helping Russia to fund its war on Ukraine
Vitaly ShevchenkoRussia editor, BBC Monitoring
Getty ImagesIn the fourth year of its full-scale invasion, Russia is still making billions for its war on Ukraine by selling fossil fuels abroad Russia has continued to make billions from fossil fuel…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped and attacked ex-assistant, she tells court
A former assistant of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a New York court that he repeatedly sexually assaulted her while she was employed by him for eight years.
The witness – who testified anonymously under the pseudonym “Mia” – also…
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Students bear the brunt of China-US crossfire
Getty ImagesThere are about 280,000 Chinese students studying in the US Xiao Chen turned up at the US Consulate in Shanghai on Thursday morning, hours after Washington announced that it would “aggressively” revoke the visas of Chinese students.
The…
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EU sanctions Syrias HTS over killings’, US consortium inks $7bn deal
The EU has imposed sanctions on the Syrian military dominated by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants for their role in the massacre of Alawite civilians on the country’s coast earlier this year.
According to…
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