BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph assesses the significance and symbolism of King Charles’ trip to Canada where he will open the parliament in Ottawa – following in the footsteps of his mother Queen Elizabeth who carried out the same duty in…
Category: 2. World
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Call for freeze on Syrian asylum claims to end as thousands still in limbo
AFP via Getty ImagesMinisters are facing calls to start processing Syrian asylum applications again, as new figures showed more than 7,000 people are still in limbo.
The UK paused decisions on Syrian claims for asylum and permanent settlement in…
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Spain proposes international sanctions on Israel to stop war on Gaza
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares says the international community should impose sanctions and embargoes on Israel to stop the brutal military offensive in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The top Spanish…
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Father of nine children—killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza—fights for his life
Palestinian physician Hamdi al-Najjar, who lost nine of his ten children in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, is in critical condition, according to the hospital treating him.
Al-Najjar sustained life-threatening injuries…
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Journalist, his family members, among 23 killed in new Israeli strikes on Gaza
At least 23 Palestinians have been killed in separate Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, among them a journalist and a senior rescue service official, as the occupying regime continues its brutal war on the…
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Winemakers finding Trump’s tariffs hard to swallow
John LaurensonBusiness reporter
Reporting fromMorey-Saint-Denis, Burgundy
BBCBurgundy in eastern France is highly praised for the quality of its wine Burgundy is one of the most prestigious wine regions in France, and the US is its biggest export…
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Trapped between anglophone militants and the army
Nick EricssonBBC Africa Eye
BBCFour years on from her husband’s brutal killing, Ngabi Dora Tue continues to struggle with the fallout Ngabi Dora Tue, consumed by grief, was barely able to stand on her own.
The coffin of her husband, Johnson Mabia,…
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The story of a dead Indian teacher who media falsely labelled a terrorist
Cherylann MollanBBC News, Mumbai
Farooq AhmedMohammad Iqbal died on 7 May in cross-border shelling in Indian-administered Kashmir Farooq Ahmed still bristles with anger when he talks about his brother’s death.
Mohammad Iqbal, a resident of Poonch…
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How a Russian couple helped Ukraine’s war effort
Ilya Barabanov and Anastasia LotarevaBBC News Russian
BBCSergei and Tatyana Voronkov had long been disillusioned with modern Russia when they decided to move to Ukraine It was shortly after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 that Sergei and…
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‘Trump must free himself from grip of Israel’
Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem has said that US President Donald Trump must free himself from “the grip of Israel if he wants to achieve his goals.”
Sheikh Qassem made the remarks on the occasion of…
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