Yaroslava Kiryukhina
BBC News Russian
Anastasia SamsonovaIt was the security guards accompanying Anastasia Samsonova’s group that suggested this wasn’t a…
Category: 4. World
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Wonsan Kalma: My trip to North Korea’s ‘Benidorm’
Anastasia SamsonovaAnastasia Samsonova was among the first group of tourists to visit Wonsan Kalma’s beaches -
Israel said to assess that ‘one or two’ hostages are in life-threatening condition
Israel has assessed that “at least one or two” hostages held in Gaza are in life-threatening condition, according to a Hebrew media report on Saturday, a day after US President Donald Trump suggested that fewer than 20 hostages remain…
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Indian-UK researchers recreate faces from 2,500-year-old skulls
Cherylann MollanBBC News
Reporting fromKeeladi, Tamil Nadu
Face Lab/Liverpool John Moores UniversityThe facial reconstruction of a 2,500-year-old skull excavated at Kondagai In a modest-sized university lab in the southern Indian state of Tamil…
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European, Asian postal services to halt US shipments as Trump ends tariff exemption
Storch Advisors CEO Gerald Storch says Walmart’s strong earnings show it’s ‘winning this game,’ while Target faces falling sales, messy stores and leadership turmoil on ‘Varney & Co.’
Postal services in Europe and around the…
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Drone incidents reported in Moscow and St. Petersburg, dozens of flights disrupted
Russian air defenses intercepted a drone headed toward Moscow on Aug. 23, according to Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. He said fragments of the drone were being examined on the ground. No casualties were reported.
The Kyiv Independent couldn’t…
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Palestinians fear it’s ‘too late’ after UN declares famine in northern Gaza
Desperate Palestinians clutching pots and plastic buckets scrambled for rice at a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Saturday, a day after the United Nations declared a famine in parts of the war-battered territory, a charge that Israel…
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Gantz urges Netanyahu, Lapid, Liberman to form temporary ‘hostage-redemption government’
MK Benny Gantz on Saturday evening called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as fellow opposition leaders to establish a temporary emergency government tasked with tackling two of Israel’s most urgent challenges: securing the…
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Beirut district refuses to succumb to Lebanon’s divisions – DW – 08/23/2025
On a building on a corner of Beirut’s Hamra Street, where for decades crooked letters on an aging marquee announced a concert by the Egyptian singer Mohammed Mounir, there is now a new sign: Lebanese National Theater.
On September 13, for the…
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Hamra: Pulse of a city, mirror of a nation
Shut for decades, the revered Le Colisee cinema in Beirut’s Hamra district will reopen its doors in September. Its return is a sign of Lebanon’s capacity to start anew despite ongoing political and economic crises.
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Trump administration seeks to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda – DW – 08/23/2025
The US government under President Donald Trump is planning a second deportation for a Salvadoran man who was illegally deported and then sent back to the United States during a fierce row over the White House’s hardline immigration policies.
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