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A tornado has struck villages in southern France, injuring over 40 people and damaging hundreds of homes, with the village of Pomas suffering the worst impact.
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Intensifying wildfires in Indonesia's Kalimantan region have burned tens of thousands of acres, creating suffocating smoke that has reached Malaysia and put Singapore on alert.
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Colombia's new far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, has ordered authorities to detain and deport irregular immigrants and those who have committed crimes. The announcement comes just over two weeks into his presidency as the country recovers from a deadly 7.4-magnitude earthquake.
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Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, has resigned from his role as a trustee at African Parks, a prominent wildlife charity that admitted to human rights abuses by its rangers in the Republic of the Congo. Despite leaving the board, his spokesperson stated that he remains a supporter of the charity's mission.
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BBC correspondent Joe Inwood has broken down the weapons technology behind the UK's Storm Shadow missile to assess its potential impact on the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
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An armed group has shared footage on social media depicting roughly 600 individuals abducted from a mosque in Dekara village, Nigeria.
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Tens of thousands of Nevada residents have been urged to evacuate as a wildfire spreads across the outskirts of Reno.
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A landslide at a massive waste dump in Guinea's capital, Conakry, killed 30 people after heavy overnight rains caused the site to collapse. The tragedy occurred less than a week after the government announced plans to relocate the dump due to safety risks during the rainy season.
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Hackers linked to Iran have been blamed for a cyber-attack that temporarily shut down a small-scale UK energy generator, which officials said posed no threat to the wider energy system.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has dismissed proposed US economic sanctions as a desperate move, while President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged that the Iranian public faces significant hardships from Washington's economic pressure.
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Jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was briefly transferred to a hospital in the capital following a Supreme Court order prompted by concerns over his health, before being returned to prison hours later.
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A former worker for the Afghan national police special unit has received threats from the Taliban after his identity was exposed in a UK Ministry of Defence leak. Despite receiving certificates signed by senior British figures praising his service, his application for UK resettlement was rejected, leaving him living in constant fear of reprisals.
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Human rights campaigners are expressing deep concern as an increasing number of major regional and international powers scale up diplomatic contacts with the Taliban in Afghanistan, five years after the regime seized power.