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Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war 80 years after Nagasaki

Shaimaa Khalil Tokyo Correspondent Reuters Attendees at Saturday ceremony The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world

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Is Perrier as pure as it claims? The bottled water scandal gripping France

Hugh Schofield Paris correspondent Getty Images Major brands like Perrier are under the spotlight after the scandal broke in France France’s multi-billion euro mineral water

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Ghana helicopter crash kills ministers of defence and environment

Ghana’s ministers of defence and environment have died in a military helicopter crash in the central Ashanti region, along with six other people, a government

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UN official says Israel expanding Gaza operations would risk ‘catastrophic consequences’

Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent Watch: UN official says Netanyahu’s reported Gaza expansion plans risk “catastrophic consequences” A top UN official has warned there would

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Brazil judge orders house arrest of former president

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered that the former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro be put under house arrest. He is standing trial over allegations he plotted

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Boeing defence workers go on strike in new blow to aviation giant

More than three thousand Boeing defence workers went on strike on Monday, in a fresh blow to the embattled aviation giant. It comes after union

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Pro-Palestine march closes Sydney Harbour Bridge

Dean Lewins/EPA A planned protest across the Sydney Harbour Bridge has gone ahead after it was authorised by the Supreme Court just one day prior,

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Hot dog spill brings US highway to standstill

Thousands of hot dogs spilled onto a highway in the US state of Pennsylvania after a lorry scraped another car, briefly bringing traffic on the

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Two girls shot in Gaza

The BBC World Service has pieced together the stories of Layan al-Majdalawi, two, and Mira Tanboura, six, both killed in Gaza in separate incidents in

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Canada follows France and UK with plan to recognise Palestinian state

Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto Watch: Mark Carney announces Canada’s plans to recognise a Palestinian state Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Canada plans to