Alex MaxiaBBC News, in Norway
STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM/NTB/AFPNorwegians go to the polls on Sunday and Monday in a tight race to…
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Tight vote in Norway to decide whether to stick with Labour or turn right
STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM/NTB/AFPConservative Erna Solberg is challenged by Labour’s Jonas Gahr Støre during a TV debate in the run-up to the election -
Inflatable tanks and flat-pack guns
Vitaly ShevchenkoRussia editor, BBC Monitoring
Na ChasiFrom the air, these look just like an M777 Howitzer, a Himars missile launcher and a Humvee vehicle used by Ukraine In June 2023, a video started spreading on pro-war Russian social media…
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LGBTQ+ Catholics make historic pilgrimage at Vatican
AFP via Getty ImagesPilgrims march to pass the holy door of St Peter’s basilica during the LGTB jubilee, at the Vatican Some 1,400 Catholics donning rainbow attire and carrying crosses are taking part in the first officially recognised LGBTQ+…
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Anna Wintour was Vogue. Now she’s stepped back, can the magazine stay relevant?
Ellie Violet BramleyStyle writer
Ron Galella Collection via Getty ImagesIn May 1989, Dame Anna Wintour did something that would become a hallmark of her time as editor-in-chief of US Vogue – she put a pop star on the cover.
Just a year into her…
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Actors, filmmakers protest Israeli genocide during premier of star-studded historical drama on Palestine
Actors and filmmakers have used the premier of a historical drama about the Palestinian struggle, from the British colonial rule up to the current day, to protest the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza…
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Italy returns 13 smuggled artifacts to Iran
Max Civili
Press TV, RomeThe Italian police have returned 13 highly-valuable artifacts to the Iranian Embassy in Rome.
The relics had been sold illegally to an antique…
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Lebanon cabinet welcomes army plan for disarming resistance
Mariam Saleh
Press TV, BeirutThe Lebanese cabinet has welcomed a plan put forth by the Lebanese army on restriction of weapons in the hands of the state. The plan is to be…
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Boko Haram kills at least 60 in overnight attack
The jihadist group Boko Haram has killed more than 60 people in an overnight attack in Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno State, local officials say.
On Friday night militants struck the village of Darul Jamal, home to a military base on the…
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India announces tax reforms to boost domestic demand after new US tariffs
India announces tax reforms to boost domestic demand in response to the new US tariffs.
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