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Who should count as African?

Getty Images US musician Chris Brown, along with Nigerian artists, are up for Best African Music Performance this year The Grammy Awards has a dedicated

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Venezuela frees six US men after Trump envoy meets Maduro

Venezuela has freed six US detainees after talks in Caracas between President Nicolás Maduro and a senior Trump administration official. The release of the men

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What we know about American Airlines plane crash in Washington DC

Joel Guinto and James FitzGerald BBC News BBC Verify analyses the moments before the Washington DC plane crash No survivors are expected after a passenger

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Trump says US will send some migrants to Guantanamo Bay

Watch: Trump directs construction of Guantanamo Bay detention centre for 30,000 migrants US President Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a migrant detention facility

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Judge halts Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans

Watch: Pause on federal funding targeted at DEI and ‘wokeness’, says White House A US judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s order to freeze hundreds

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Trump administration fires justice department lawyers who investigated him

Brajesh Upadhyay BBC News, Washington Reuters The lawyers were part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s team which brought two cases against Trump US President

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Lebanon ceasefire deal extended as initial deadline passes

The US and Lebanon say the ceasefire deal with Israel – which had been due to expire on Sunday – has been extended until mid-February.

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M23 rebels kill 13 foreign peacekeepers in DR Congo

Thirteen soldiers serving with peacekeeping forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed in clashes with rebels from the M23 group. The South

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‘I have become afraid of my own memories’

Joel Gunter Reporting from Jerusalem BBC Rescue worker Abdullah al-Majdalawi in Gaza City. “I have become afraid of my own memories,” he said. At some

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Before Los Angeles disaster, wildfires pushed others out of California

Getty Images More than 150,000 people were forced to evacuate due to the recent fires in LA Christina Welch still remembers what the sky looked