Heatwave: More evacuations as Mediterranean wildfires spread
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62196045?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 3:20 AM
Wildfires force France to evacuate some 16,000 people, as Spain, Croatia and Greece are also hit.
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Heatwave: Forest fires continue in France
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62203717?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 6:10 AM
French firefighters are working to keep wildfires in the south-west of the country under control.
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Ukraine war: Zelensky suspends security chief and top prosecutor
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62202078?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 8:52 AM
The Ukrainian president says there have been cases of treason in the two powerful agencies.
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Yusuf Zahab: Australian teen feared killed in Syrian jail
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-62173775?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 5:48 AM
Yusuf Zahab was taken to Syria as a child and recently pleaded with Australia for help.
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Ghana confirms first cases of deadly Marburg virus
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62202240?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 11:26 PM
Two patients in the West African nation have died recently of the Ebola-like virus, officials say.
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Texas shooting: Uvalde report finds 'systemic failures' by authorities
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62200507?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 9:32 PM
Officers showed a lack of leadership and urgency in their response to the shooting, a report finds.
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Dozens of sea turtles found stabbed off Japanese island
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-62202902?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 4:47 AM
More than 30 of the animals were found motionless in a low tide with stab marks at their necks.
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US woman arrested for faking her kidnapping in India
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-62202956?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 7:33 AM
Police say the woman staged her own kidnapping to get money from her parents.
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Greece plane crash: Cargo aircraft was carrying weapons to Bangladesh - minister
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62195005?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 1:13 PM
People within a two kilometre radius of the scene of the plane crash are warned to stay indoors.
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Several arrests at protest over dying Iranian lake
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62199184?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 3:17 PM
Once the world's second largest salt lake, farming and drought have reduced Lake Urmia to a trickle.
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The hard choices Sri Lankans must make now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-62191735?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 12:32 AM
They have chased out their reviled president. Now the country faces some difficult decisions.
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German Documenta art fair chief quits in anti-Semitism row
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62196040?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 9:04 AM
An Indonesian mural showing anti-Semitic figures caused a scandal at a modern art show in Kassel.
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Captured Briton John Harding appears in video in Ukraine
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62195183?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 3:20 PM
John Harding, in his fifties and from Sunderland, says he was told he could face the death penalty.
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BBC Africa Eye expose: Chinese man extradited to Malawi over racist videos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-62196765?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 12:28 PM
He was filmed using Malawian children to make videos, some of which included racist content.
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Ukraine war: The fight to rescue our adopted children
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62178794?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 11:51 PM
A Ukrainian foster family who were separated when Russia invaded spent months trying to reunite.
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Kenya election: Taking on the sexist bullies to stand
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61801282?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 12:02 AM
Wavinya Ndeti says some voters "see women as the weaker sex", as she campaigns to become a governor.
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83, Samrat Prithviraj: Why Bollywood's big films are flopping at the box office
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-62145780?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 11:53 PM
Several big-ticket films in 2022 have failed at the box office, leaving producers confused.
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Sri Lanka crisis is a warning to other Asian nations
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61976928?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
Rising interest rates are making debt repayment costlier, putting Asian emerging markets at risk of default.
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Heatwave: Are wildfires happening more often?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-62200929?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 18, 2022, 12:08 AM
Wildfires have been burning from Alaska to Greece this month - are they becoming more common?
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Ukraine War: The Donbas body collector who has lost count
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62179136?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 16, 2022, 11:22 PM
For those on the front line of Russia's war in Ukraine, the personal toll is unbearable.
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Texas shooting: Speak to us! Cowards! - Families yell over report
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62202068?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 11:09 PM
People react at the end of a press conference about a report into the 24 May shooting which left 21 dead.
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Alaa Abdel Fattah: 'My brother's certain he won't come out of Egypt prison alive'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62158670?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 17, 2022, 11:04 PM
British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been on hunger strike in an Egyptian jail for more than 100 days.
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How did a captain survive? - The mysterious death of 21 men on a Spanish fishing boat
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62184948?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 16, 2022, 11:00 PM
Only three people survived, including the captain and his nephew, when a Galician fishing boat sank.
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Palestinian people deserve a state of their own - Biden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62175659?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 15, 2022, 11:29 AM
The US president reiterates the United States' commitment to a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.
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Trapped baby elephant and mum rescued in Thailand
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-62167134?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
July 14, 2022, 1:08 PM
The elephant and her calf fell into a deep pit in a national park in Thailand.
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