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Major earthquake strikes Japan’s north-east coast
Watch: CCTV shows moment earthquake hits Japan A major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 has hit Japan’s north-eastern region. The quake…
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Hunt for plotters and their hostages after Nigerian intervention
Security forces in Benin are searching for the soldiers who tried to seize power on Sunday morning, with the president…
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Syria without Assad is lighter
Jeremy BowenInternational Editor BBC A year ago, the war that President Bashar al-Assad seemed to have won was turned upside…
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Japan is facing a dementia crisis – can technology help?
Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent, Tokyo BBC Scientists at Waseda University in Tokyo are developing caregiving robots Last year, more than…
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Hong Kong votes in election as city mourns deadly fire
Getty Images Hongkongers are mourning the worst blaze the city has seen in more than 70 years Hongkongers have voted…
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Benin coup attempt to oust President Talon foiled by loyalist troops, minister says
Paul Njie, Thomas Naadi,BBC Africa reportersand Lucy Fleming BTV The soldiers appeared on state TV early on Sunday morning to…
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Ukrainian city hit by ‘massive’ strike as peace talks in US conclude
Russia continued its aerial attacks on Ukraine overnight, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had a “very constructive”…
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Fire at popular India nightclub kills 23, Goa officials say
At least 23 people have been killed in a fire at a popular nightclub in the coastal region of Goa,…
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Deadly attack on kindergarten reported in Sudan
A drone attack on the town of Kalogi, in Sudan’s South Kordofan region, is said to have hit a kindergarten…
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Russia bombards Ukraine as US says progress made in talks with Kyiv
Nardine Saadand Harry Sekulich Reuters Russia targeted a railway depot in the town of Fastiv outside Kyiv Russia has launched…
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