Fardowsa Hanshi
BBC News, Mogadishu
Anthony Irungu / BBCConstruction is booming in Somalia’s capital city and as Mogadishu literally rises from…
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Somalia’s construction boom in Mogadishu gives women high ambitions
Anthony Irungu / BBCFathi Mohamed Abdi (L) and Saadia Ahmed Omar (R) have overseen more than 30 multimillion-dollar projects -
Mass protests against Trump across US as president holds huge military parade
Bernd Debusmann, John Sudworth and Kayla EpsteinReporting from Washington, Los Angeles and New York
Getty ImagesA protest outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan Protests against President Donald Trump have taken place in towns and cities…
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Daily World Briefing, June 15
60 killed in Israeli airstrike on residential building in Iranian capital: state TV
At least 60 people, including 20 children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a 14-story building in a residential complex in the Iranian capital Tehran on…
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How a race for electric vehicles threatens a marine paradise
Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News
Global WitnessThe Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia is sometimes referred to as the ‘Amazon of the Seas’ Stark images, captured from a drone by environmental campaigners and shared with the BBC, appear…
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A Russian soldier takes the stand for an execution
Joel GunterReporting from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
BBCDmitriy Kurashov is the first Russian soldier to stand trial in Ukraine for an alleged battlefield execution On the frozen frontline in the east of Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian soldier surveyed the…
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How UK paternity leave compares to the rest of Europe
BBCPaternity leave policies vary across Europe – but the UK’s offer is one of the least generous Becoming a new dad can be significantly impacted by the amount of paternity leave available to fathers, and a report published this week suggests UK…
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Iran Continues Its Retaliatory Attack on Israel
Warning sirens have sounded throughout the occupied territories.
“On Saturday night, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) unleashed a second wave of missile strikes targeting the Israeli regime, advancing the…
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Senior MP Rezaei: True Promise 3 will continue until Israel's destruction
Iran’s True Promise 3 operation will continue until Israel’s destruction, said Ebrahim Rezaei, head of parliament’s national security committee, with “broader, deadlier, and more devastating” strikes to follow.
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Macron visits Greenland in show of European unity and signal to Trump
Michel Euler/Pool via ReutersFrench President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Greenland to meet the prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark In a sign of Greenland’s growing importance, French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the Arctic island…
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Israeli strike on oil depot in Tehran suburb ignites huge blaze (VIDEOS)
The two countries continued to attack one another on Saturday
Israel struck an oil depot in Shahran, a northwestern suburb of Tehran, as the two archrivals continued to trade barrages throughout…
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