Chiamaka Enendu
BBC News in Lagos
AmunRa Eyeconic Vision“I felt like a princess,” says US teenager Brianna LeDoux about her prom gown which she…
Category: 2. World
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The Nigerian prom dresses that have the wow factor for US teenagers
AmunRa Eyeconic VisionLaniyah Belcarist, from St Louis in Missouri, ordered her dress from Nigeria for this year’s prom -
Trump's plan for DC homeless is giving San Francisco deja vu
San Francisco’s crackdown on homelessness has transformed the city – but advocates say the root of the problem still remains.
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The South Korean cafes grappling with students who don’t leave
Juna MoonBBC Korean
Reporting fromSeoul, South Korea
BBCThe ‘desk’ of a 33-year-old developer in Starbucks In the affluent Seoul neighbourhood of Daechi, Hyun Sung-joo has a dilemma.
His coffee shop is sometimes visited by Cagongjok, a term for…
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Why studios keep making live-action adaptations of anime
Grace TsoiBBC World Service
Courtesy of NetflixNetflix’s latest live-action remake of anime, Solo Leveling, was first published as a Korean web novel When Netflix announced plans for a live-action remake of a beloved anime series, it was met with…
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South Koreans demand no sacrifice to Trump
Frank Smith
Press TV, SeoulSouth Korean President Lee Jae-myung is set to meet his American counterpart, Donald Trump, in Washington this coming Monday. As the summit…
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Enemy not seeking genuine talks; Iranians never surrender
The SNSC secretary made the comments in a recent interview with the official website of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
In the interview, he stressed that the Leader had advised the Iranian official to…
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Will Serena Williams’s weight-loss admission help shed stigma of anti-obesity drugs?
Serena Williams, one of the most successful athletes of all time, has spoken out about using weight loss drugs – she says, to lift the “stigma” around using such medication.
Will her outspoken comments instil a new sense of confidence in those…
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Palestinians mourn victims of strike on tent in Gaza city
Palestinians mourn at the Al-Shifa hospital for loved ones killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Friday. Gaza’s civil defense agency says a strike on a tented area on…
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from jail and retuning to Maryland
A Salvadoran man who was mistakenly deported and then brought back to the US on criminal charges has been released from jail, his attorney told the BBC.
“Today, Kilmar Ábrego García is free,” attorney Sean Hecker said. He planned to return to…
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UN famine declaration confirms months of starvation, says Oxfam
The international charity Oxfam says the UN-backed food security body’s declaration of famine in Gaza City confirms what the charity and its partners have been documenting for months across the besieged Palestinian…
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