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Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: A life cut short by cruelty
Tuesday 16 June 2020 started the same as any other for six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes: in misery and in pain.
Barely able to stand, he folded away his bedding in the living room where his father and new stepmother had been making him…
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The secret diaries of Afghan women
When the Taliban swept into Kabul on 15 August the only shots they fired were in celebration. For Afghan women, the salvos represented the loss of all their rights and freedoms. Five of them have been sending the BBC daily diaries, which…
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US Boss fires 900 employees via zoom
The boss of a US firm has been criticised after he fired around 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call.
"If you're on this call you're part of the unlucky group being laid off," said Vishal Garg, chief executive of mortgage firm…
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Whistleblower describes ‘chaos’ of UK Afghan exit
The UK Foreign Office’s handling of the Afghan evacuation after the Taliban seized Kabul was “dysfunctional” and “chaotic”, a whistleblower has said.
Raphael Marshall said the process of choosing who could get a flight out was…
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Indian teen arrested for beheading pregnant sister
Police in the western Indian state of Maharashtra have arrested a teenager suspected of beheading his pregnant older sister.
The woman, 19, had married a man without her family's consent, local police officials said.
She was making…
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Nigerians call for #JusticeForSylvester after his death
The hashtag #JusticeForSylvester has been trending on Twitter in Nigeria after the death of a 12-year-old boy in Lagos called Sylvester Oromoni.
In an interview with BBC Pidgin, his father said that Sylvester was beaten up after refusing…
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Bus carrying choir members plunges into river
At least 23 people have drowned after a bus travelling to a wedding plunged into a flooded river in Kenya.
Video footage shows the bus was swept away after the driver tried to cross fast-flowing water over a bridge in the Enziu River,…
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The struggle to save Afghanistan’s starving babies
Doctors in Afghanistan's crisis-hit hospitals, many of whom are now working without pay, spoke to the BBC about the country's deepening humanitarian crisis.
All names have been changed
The young woman was crying, begging the doctor to…
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Michael Jackson imitator fights judge in Court
A Michael Jackson impersonator who is accused of participating in the US Capitol riot has clashed with a judge after rejecting the court's authority.
James Beeks was accused of "gobbledygook" by the judge after claiming he had "divine"…
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Sexual harassment rife in Australia parliament
A third of employees in Australia's federal parliament have been sexually harassed, a landmark report has found.
The report was commissioned after a former staffer, Brittany Higgins, said she had been raped by a colleague in a minister's…
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