International
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BBC ‘Determined to Fight’ Trump Defamation Case: Chairman
The BBC apologised last week for giving the impression in a documentary that Trump had directly urged “violent action” just before the assault on the US Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021.
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Bangladesh Ex-PM Sentenced to Death for Crimes Against Humanity
Hasina, 78, defied court orders that she return from India to attend her trial about whether she ordered a deadly crackdown against a student-led uprising that ousted her.
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Mushroom Material Takes on Plastic Packaging at Belgian Start-Up
On a gleaming new production line in Brussels, Julien Jacquet shows off a row of milky-white soap bar wrappers — made by what is billed as Europe’s first factory for mushroom-based packaging.
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South Africa’s Ramaphosa Says US Skipping G20 ‘Their Loss’
Pretoria and Washington have clashed over a range of policy issues, including South Africa’s summit agenda, culminating in President Donald Trump announcing at the weekend that no US official will attend the Johannesburg gathering.
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Japanese ‘Ran’ actor Tatsuya Nakadai dies at 92
Nakadai first rose to fame in Japan and internationally under director Masaki Kobayashi, who cast him in his epic anti-war trilogy “The Human Condition” of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Earth cannot ‘sustain’ intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30
Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Earth can no longer sustain humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels, and warned the climate fight could be lost without a rapid transition to cleaner energy.
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Seven Hospitalized After Suspicious Package Opened at US Base
Seven people were briefly hospitalized after a suspicious package containing a white powder was opened at the military base near the US capital that is home to Air Force One, the presidential jet, US media…
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Nigeria Dismisses US Claims on Christians But Calls for Security Aid
Nigeria and the United States have been embroiled in a diplomatic row since President Donald Trump said Friday he was naming Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) — a State Department designation for religious…
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Russia says Downed 193 Ukrainian Drones Overnight
Russian forces in total downed 47 drones in Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, as well as 40 in the Moscow region, with most of those headed towards the capital, according to the defence ministry.
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Six Jailed in UK Over Arson Ordered by Russia’s Wagner Group
Lawyers for some of the six sentenced Friday at London’s Old Bailey court said Russian operatives had preyed upon their “unsophisticated” clients’ vulnerabilities, which included financial, drug and mental health issues.
