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British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing after Bayesian yacht sinks off Sicily | BBC News
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One man has died and six other people are missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after a British yacht sank off the coast of Sicily during bad weather. There were 22 people on board in total - 15 people were rescued including a one-year-old child. Sources say Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares was also rescued. The 56m (183ft) yacht, the…
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In February 2024, huge forest fires destroyed 90% of the land and plant species. Workers were killed and homes destroyed. We travel to the seaside town of Vina del Mar to find out how the country’s oldest and most important botanical garden is recovering. The garden’s described as the green lung of the region, and used to be home to hundreds of dif…
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Will Gaza discontent harm Harris' prospects?
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The US Democrats are promising a celebration of President Joe Biden on the first day of their Convention in Chicago. But with thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters in Chicago tonight, could discontent over Gaza harm Kamala Harris's election prospects? Also tonight: The British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and five others are missing after a luxury yach…
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Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago
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The Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago, in a four-day event that will see Kamala Harris formally confirmed as the party's presidential candidate. We hear from correspondents on the ground. The government in Nicaragua has outlawed 1,500 civil society groups in one day. They're accused of failing to report their finances and face the…
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Blinken- it’s up to Hamas to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza
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The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who's held talks with Israeli leaders, also said that Israel has approved a proposal aimed at bridging the divide between both sides. Also on the programme: President Biden is due to address the opening day of the Democratic Convention in Chicago; and the luxury super-yacht which sank in a storm in the Med…
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MNC: Predatory Haaland, his 'raw milk diet' & Toney to Saudi?
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A good start for Arsenal and Manchester City, is the Premier League a two-horse race again? Do the Gunners still need a new striker? Kai Havertz had a flying start against Wolves. Plus, Izzy may have the scoop on what makes Erling Haaland so good - the raw milk diet! The panel also discuss Ivan Toney's potential move away from Brentford. Will he en…
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Americanswers! What's the vibe at the Democratic Convention this week?
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Harris, Obama and Beyoncé (Maybe) At the DNC
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Today, we look at Kamala Harris taking centre stage at the Democratic National Convention, as she is poised to become presidential nominee. With just 11 weeks until the American people go to the polls, Kamala Harris will be nominated as the official Democrat presidential nominee on Thursday at the DNC in Chicago. Will we learn more about Harris’ po…
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19/08/2024 Search operation continues in Sicily for six passengers after luxury yacht sinks
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The British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is among the missingBy BBC Radio 4
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Democratic National Convention set to begin | BBC News
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The Democratic National Convention begins on Monday in Chicago, in what is expected to be a celebration of Kamala Harris's nomination as presidential candidate following Joe Biden's exit. Ms Harris is expected to join President Biden on stage when he addresses the convention on Monday. Meanwhile, thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters are expected…
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စစ်ကောင်စီက ပြည်သူ့လုံခြုံရေးနှင့် အကြမ်းဖက် နှိမ်နင်းရေး ဗဟို ကြီးကြပ်မှု အဖွဲ့ ဖွဲ့စည်းလိုက်
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- ဒီပဲယင်းမြို့ကို တော်လှန်ရေး အင်အားစုတွေဘက်က သိမ်းပိုက်နိုင်ခဲ့ပေမယ့် စစ်ကောင်စီဘက်က လေကြောင်းကနေ တိုက်ခိုက်ပြီး စစ်ကြောင်းထိုးလာတာကြောင့် ပြန်ဆုတ်ပေးခဲ့ရ- စစ်တပ်က ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မြို့တော် စစ်တွေကို အေအေလက်ထဲ မကျအောင် ကြိုးပမ်းတဲ့အနေနဲ့ မြို့ကို သံဆူးကြိုးတွေနဲ့ အခိုင်အမာ ခြံစည်းရိုးခတ်နေတယ်လို့ ဒေသခံတွေ ပြော- တောင်ကိုရီးယားနဲ့ အမေရိကန် ပေါင်းပြီး…
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'Last opportunity' to secure Gaza ceasefire
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said now is "probably the best, maybe the last opportunity" to secure a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza. We'll hear from a senior Hamas official, and a member of Israel's main governing party about their thoughts on the situation. Also in the programme: As the Democrats' convention begins in Chica…
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Ceasefire talks may be last chance to end war in Gaza says Blinken
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At the start of a day of meetings with Israeli leaders, Mr Blinken said it was time to say yes to a deal without excuses. Also: Russian officials say Ukraine has struck a third key bridge in the Kursk region and Chicago hosts the Democratic National Convention.By BBC World Service
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What to expect from the Democratic National Convention | BBC News
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With just three months to go before the 2024 US election, thousands are set to gather in Chicago this week for the Democratic National Convention.The Democratic Party has already officially nominated Vice-President Kamala Harris in a virtual roll call after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.Dozens of prominent Democrats and celebrities wi…
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Why is Cape Town evicting homeless people from the city centre?
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Why did a Western Cape court order that dozens of homeless people be evicted from the streets of Cape Town? We take a closer look at Nigeria's multiple exchange rates And what lures African athletes to compete for other countries? Presenter: Audrey BrownProducers: Blessing Aderogba in Lagos. Bella Hassan and Rob Wilson in London. Technical Producer…
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How a hospital murder led to India’s doctors going on strike
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After the rape and murder of a female trainee doctor in India, there have been protests across the country. She was killed at work. Doctors held a national strike over the weekend. Protesters want a stronger law to better protect medical staff against violence, increasing the level of security at hospitals and the creation of safe spaces for rest. …
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One dead, six missing, 15 rescued after luxury British yacht sinks off Sicily | BBC News
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One man has died and six other people are missing after a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday morning. There were 22 people on board of the 56m (183ft) vessel - 15 people were rescued including a one-year-old child. Local media reported that the yacht, sailing under the name Bayesian, sank after encountering a heavy stor…
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Zelensky says Ukraine aims to create ‘buffer zone’ inside Russia | BBC News
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he wants to create a buffer zone inside Russian territory. He added that creating a buffer zone in Russia's Kursk region would be part of Ukraine’s defence strategy going forwards. Two weeks on from the start of its incursion, Ukraine says it has destroyed two strategic Russian bridges. A Russian…
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Gaza ceasefire talks might be ‘last chance’ to free hostages, says Blinken | BBC News
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said now is "probably the best, maybe the last opportunity" to secure a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza. Mr Blinken made his comments during a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday during his ninth trip to the region since the war began in October. The US has expressed optimism abo…
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It has been declared a global health emergency twice in two years. Mpox – formerly known as Monkeypox – is spreading rapidly across Africa and has also been detected outside the continent. And scientists are worried about the speed at which a new strain is being transmitted. On this episode, Lucy Hockings is joined by Dorcas Wangira our Africa Heal…
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Karuna Nundy: Human rights and justice in India
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Stephen Sackur speaks to the prominent Indian lawyer Karuna Nundy. She has been at the forefront of long battles to better protect women from sexual violence, legalise gay marriage and safeguard freedom of speech. Is she losing this fight for India’s future? This episode contains references to rape and sexual assault.…
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Ted Baker is to close the remainder of its stores in the UK. Will Bain also looks at the rise of beauty salons on our high street.By BBC Radio 5 Live
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How are Africans in the UK feeling after the anti-immigrant riots?
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It started with the horrific killing of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event for children in the seaside town of Southport, in northern England. After false rumours were spread on social media that the 17-year-old charged with their murders was a Muslim migrant who’d arrived by boat a few years before, a wave of anti-Muslim and an…
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Ukraine aims to create a military buffer zone inside Russia
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President Zelensky outlines his aims for the cross-border offensive. Also: a last US diplomatic push for a Gaza ceasefire and the release of hostages, and President Macron leads tributes to the French actor, Alain Delon.By BBC World Service
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We catch up on the ongoing disruption to the shipping industry after Houthi attacks on commercial vessels. The Iran-backed group said it was targeting ships linked to Israel, the US and the UK in support of Hamas. We look at the cost of diverting cargo away from the Red Sea, and hear about the impact of months of disruption. Plus a new remote shipp…
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Fishermen from the Philippines, Ghana and Sri Lanka speak out about how badly, they say, they were treated by a Scottish fishing company that hired them. Most of the fishermen have been waiting in the UK for more than 10 years for their case to be heard. Despite two extensive police investigations, no convictions have been secured for human traffic…
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Ukraine incursion destroys key Russian bridge
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Almost two weeks into its attack on Russia's Kursk region, Ukraine has rendered unusable another bridge over the river Seym, further complicating logistics for Russian forces, and making it more difficult for them to bring in reinforcements. Earlier in the week, the Ukrainians destroyed another bridge. Correspondents say cutting Russian access may …
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The Premier League Review with Darren Fletcher
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Erling Haaland helps Manchester City beat Chelsea as Raheem Sterling is left out. Darren Fletcher gets reaction from Asmir Begović, Stephen Kelly and The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards. Also hear from Pep Guardiola and Enzo Maresca. The panel also discuss Brentford beating Crystal Palace without Ivan Toney. How concerned should we be for Everton? Jhon Du…
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18/08/2024 Blinken arrives in Israel for Gaza ceasefire talks
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel to push for a Gaza ceasefire.By BBC Radio 4
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How Russians have reacted to Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk region | BBC News
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For nearly two weeks, Ukrainian forces have been seizing and occupying Russian territory in the Kursk region. It marks the first time since World War Two that a foreign army has been fighting inside Russia – and for many Russian people, it is cause for alarm. Repeating the official messaging of the state media, some Russians call for “peace on Russ…
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Is Kamala Harris beating Donald Trump in the US election polls? | BBC Americast
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There is new and significant polling from the swing states which is energising the Kamala Harris's Democratic campaign. But beyond the headline numbers, what do the polls tell us about how long the vice president's boost in popularity might last? Americast is part of the BBC News Podcasts family of podcasts. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor…
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တော်လှန်ရေးအင်အားစုတွေ သိမ်းပိုက်အပြီး ဒီပဲယင်းမြို့က အခြေအနေ
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- တော်လှန်ရေးအင်အားစုတွေ သိမ်းပိုက်အပြီး ဒီပဲယင်းမြို့က အခြေအနေ- ပင်လည်ဘူးနဲ့ အင်းတော်မှာ တိုက်ပွဲတွေ ဆက်ပြင်းထန်နေ- ရခိုင်မှာ စစ်ဒဏ်နဲ့ သဘာဝဘေးဒဏ် ရင်ဆိုင်နေရတဲ့ လယ်ယာလုပ်ကိုင်သူတွေရဲ့ အခက်အခဲ- ရုရှားပိုင်နက်ထဲက အရေးပါတဲ့ နောက်တံတားတစ်စင်းကို ယူကရိန်းတပ်ဖွဲ့ ဖျက်ဆီးနိုင်ခဲ့- ရုပ်ရှင်လောကမှာ အချောဆုံးမင်းသားအဖြစ် တချိန်က ဖော်ညွှန်းခံခဲ့ရသူ ပြင်သစ်မ…
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Ukraine continues its offensive in the Russian region of Kursk
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Ukraine says it has destroyed a second bridge in Russia, as it continues its offensive in the Kursk region. The commander of the Ukrainian air force posted a video appearing to show the moment the bridge was brought down, saying the aim was to cut Russian supply lines. Also on the programme: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken due in Israel, in a …
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Bonus: The Global Story - Is Twitch too big to fail?
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This is a Bonus episode from The Global Story - Is Twitch too big to fail? The world's largest live-streaming platform, Twitch, faces an uncertain future. Media reports suggest that parent company Amazon has become frustrated by its failure to make profit, and rumours are swirling of a third round of layoffs within a year. But does its loyal audien…
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