Australian Football League (AFL) player and coach Robert Walls has died aged 74, after using voluntary assisted dying laws.
Walls – a Carlton Football Club legend – won three premierships with the team as a player and one as coach, and later…
Category: 2. World
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Georgetown academic freed from immigration detention
Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses.
A federal judge ordered the release of Mr…
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Do Afrikaners want to leave South Africa for the US?
Khanyisile NgcoboBBC News, Johannesburg
Ulrich Janse van VuurenUlrich Janse van Vuuren has made it his passion to share and showcase some of South Africa’s best features with his legion of social media followers.
The 38-year-old white South African…
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Putin not on Kremlin list of officials attending Ukraine peace talks in Turkey
Russian President Vladimir Putin is not among the names listed by the Kremlin as due to attend peace talks on the war in Ukraine in Istanbul on Thursday, despite calls from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky for him to attend.
Russia’s delegation will…
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Meet the ‘invisible’ backstage team who make the song contest tick
Mark SavageMusic Correspondent
Getty ImagesIcelandic boyband VÆB were the first act to perform on the Eurovision stage this year Thirty-five seconds. That’s all the time you get to change the set at Eurovision.
Thirty-five seconds to get one set of…
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Trump’s critics and supporters unite against Qatar plane deal
ReutersUS President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at a signing ceremony in Doha on Wednesday In his eagerness to accept a plane from Qatar, Donald Trump has achieved a remarkable feat, uniting many partisans across…
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Drone attacks raise stakes in new phase of bloody civil war
Barbara Plett UsherBBC News
ReutersPort Sudan, which was once considered a relatively safe city, has been hit by a series of drone attacks targeting key infrastructure Paramilitary fighters appear to have opened a new phase in Sudan’s civil war…
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Abuse and blackmail – Cassie shares Diddy relationship at trial
R&B singer Casandra Ventura, known as Cassie, gave her second day of testimony as the prosecution’s key witness in the federal sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Ventura detailed beatings and sexual violence she says she experienced…
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Why Delhi could not stop IMF bailout to Islamabad
Nikhil Inamdar, BBC News, London & Archana Shukla, BBC News, Mumbai
BBCIndian paramilitary soldiers stand guard in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $1bn (£756m) bailout to Pakistan…
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Mike Lynch’s superyacht knocked over by ‘extreme wind’, report says
Joe Inwood & Tom GerkenBBC World correspondent & technology reporter
Ian Aikman & Eve WebsterBBC News
EPAThe Bayesian, pictured sailing near Palermo, in a photo released by manufactures Perini Navi A luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of…
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