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10 Feb
Trump is accused of insurrection after the January 6 Capitol riots, with Colorado taking him off the Republican primary ballot in the state. The former president is now taking the fight to the nation's highest court.
10 Feb
After attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on cargo ships in the Red Sea, the EU is set to deploy warships to relieve supply bottlenecks. It comes as the US and the UK strike Houthi targets.
10 Feb
Applications to Quebec's two largest English universities from out-of-province domestic students dropped substantially after the provincial government announced a tuition hike targeting those schools.
10 Feb
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview that aired on Thursday that Russia will fight for its interests but has no interest in expanding its war in Ukraine to other countries such as Poland and Latvia.
10 Feb
Across the globe, major airports are intercepting and analysing the waste from planes to provide a “true early warning” of any dangerous new arrivals.
10 Feb
The pro-peace politician's campaign to oust President Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin was seen as the opposition's best hope.
10 Feb
“Provocative and chilling”, it was lauded as one of the best books of 2021, receiving praise from the likes of former US president Barack Obama. “The Final Revival of Opal & Nev” tells the tale of a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude.
10 Feb
Pumping industrial emissions into the depths of the Earth's crust – is it a silver bullet to pump the breaks on climate change? Norway says yes, as it prepares to launch the world’s first cross-border carbon storage facility. But will it cut global emissions? Or just greenwash and prolong the same old polluting practices?
10 Feb
The top job will now go to Russian-born Oleksandr Syrskyi, who defended Kyiv in 2022. Oleksandr Syrskyi has been named the new chief of Ukraine's armed forces after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy carried out a long-awaited military reshuffle this week.
10 Feb
The annual Lunar New Year festival is the busiest travel period in the world. Our correspondent in China walk us through how domestic travel may be a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy economy. We also find out about Gemini, Google's newly branded chatbot, Hermes's soon to be more expensive products, and how Americans are expected to spend $1.7 billion on Super Bowl festivities.
10 Feb
The Wagner Group used to serve Russia's interests in Africa — unofficially. But with Wagner's collapse, Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a new Africa Corps, with soldiers officially deployed to Burkina Faso.
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A world record of 969 million citizens are called to the polls for what some see as a referendum on one man. India is about to embark on the world's biggest election, staggered over seven weeks, with Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP expected to extend its solid lead in parliament. Modi has been pointing to a decade of unprecedented growth and power for a nation courted by the West and beyond.
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India's mammoth elections are now under way, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi widely expected to win a third term. Since coming to power in 2014, Modi has expanded subsidy programmes for the poor and women. These programmes include measures like equipping homes with butane gas by offering free cylinders or distributing free food rations. Some 60 percent of the population benefits from Modi’s food distribution scheme, which he has pledged to renew for another five years. Another success story is the nationwide rollout of digital payment services. Meanwhile, critics say the prime minister is eroding democracy by targeting opposition parties and controlling the media.
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In the early hours of Sunday morning, Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel in an unprecedented strike launched directly from Iranian territory. Almost all of the drones, rockets and cruise missiles launched by Iran were intercepted by Israeli air defenses with the help of the US, UK, and several Arab countries.
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The Croatian city of Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, has a painful past. Located on the border with Serbia, it was the scene of the first major battle in the 1990s Balkan wars. Four years before the genocide in Srebrenica and eight years before the war in Kosovo, Vukovar was the first city in the former Yugoslavia to suffer ethnic cleansing, in 1991. More than 30 years later, reconciliation between local Serbs and Croats is hindered by impunity for war crimes and the inability to agree on a common version of events.
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The country's ruling junta is stepping up cooperation with Moscow, after expelling French troops last year. Also in the programme, at least three people have been killed in a shootout between militiamen and police in the Ethiopian capital. Among the dead are fighters from a rebel militia known as Fano. Plus, the art of remembering: painters in Rwanda are keeping the memory of genocide victims alive by drawing their inspiration from photographs.