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🔴Delhi shatters its all-time heat record at 52C

🔴A senior Israeli official says he expects fighting to continue in Gaza for at least the rest of the year

🔴How North Korea is menacing South Korea with rubbish-filled balloons

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How do you play top-flight table tennis if you have no hands and one leg?

Martin Perry will represent Great Britain in the Paralympics and he has found some ingenious solutions. His goal is 'to play with a smile on my face'

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'The water was so corrosive it was corroding car parts.'

In April 2014 the city of Flint in the USA switched to a new water supply. It was supposed to save money - but the dangerous levels of lead in the water became a national scandal

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Ramiro Mora Romero left Cuba and performed with a circus in the UK. Now he's been selected to represent the IOC Olympic Refugee Team as a weightlifter, fulfilling a long-term promise to his parents, who died when he was young

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'I see myself as a Maasai-Derry girl.'

Lilian Seenoi-Barr was born in Kenya and is a proud member of the Maasai people. Now she is set to make history by becoming Northern Ireland's first black mayor Alan Kasujja

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'I see myself as a Maasai-Derry girl.' Lilian Seenoi-Barr was born in Kenya and is a proud member of the Maasai people. Now she is set to make history by becoming Northern Ireland's first black mayor @kasujja #AfricaDaily 🎧 bbc.in/44ZGMAM
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Mexico City has too much water when it rains, but not enough clean water for people to use.

Enter the team coming up with ingenious solutions, like using plants to clean sewage, and a park that absorbs excess rainwater

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Mexico City has too much water when it rains, but not enough clean water for people to use. Enter the team coming up with ingenious solutions, like using plants to clean sewage, and a park that absorbs excess rainwater 🎧 bbc.in/4dUhVlV
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Top perfume brands may have the “worst form of child labour” in their supply chain, a BBC Eye investigation reveals.

Watch the full film on YouTube bbc.in/4dXnDDy

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Armed resistance against Myanmar's military government has been going on for decades, often from very remote areas.

Access is extremely difficult but the BBC has spoken to young fighters at the heart of the insurgency

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Following the pandemic, many people signed up and joined allotment waiting lists.

Hear Ukrainian Olia Hercules and Kenyan JC Niala why they love their allotments, on The Conversation
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Extra virgin olive oil prices have rocketed by as much as 50% in the past year alone.

So how did this premium product get so expensive and will the price ever go down again?

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🔴Israeli tanks enter the heart of Rafah
🔴Three more nations recognise a Palestinian state
🔴Georgia parliament to vote on 'foreign agents' bill

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The world's first known surviving quintuplets were born in Canada 90 years ago, and grew up in a specially-adapted nursery where they were exhibited to the world.

Years later, they fought for compensation for their lost childhood

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The world's first known surviving quintuplets were born in Canada 90 years ago, and grew up in a specially-adapted nursery where they were exhibited to the world. Years later, they fought for compensation for their lost childhood 🎧 bbc.in/3VdS1Ch
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Campaigning in this year's US general election is expected to cost well over $10bn. How much have the candidates raised so far, who is donating, and how do the parties spend the money?

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To some people he was a hero, to others a terrorist.

Branded a traitor in Brazil and disillusioned with the brutal dictatorship, Carlos Lamarca deserted the army to join in the armed struggle against the military regime.

He was shot dead in 1971

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To some people he was a hero, to others a terrorist. Branded a traitor in Brazil and disillusioned with the brutal dictatorship, Carlos Lamarca deserted the army to join in the armed struggle against the military regime. He was shot dead in 1971 bbc.in/44WAa5Y
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Here's how teachers and students at the Dandora Secondary School in Nairobi are using bamboo to tackle the problem of toxic fumes from a giant landfill site

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Here's how teachers and students at the Dandora Secondary School in Nairobi are using bamboo to tackle the problem of toxic fumes from a giant landfill site 🎧 bbc.in/3yJclCC
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Wild elephants in Sri Lanka are using 'bandit' tactics to raid vehicles on the country's roads in search of food.

🎧Helping elephants and humans get along bbc.in/3yzrQNv

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Hervé lost his leg after he had a motorbike accident. On the eve of the amputation he made a deal with God: “If I walk again, I'll go to Santiago.”

But it wasn’t until after a failed suicide attempt that he set off on the 1,920km pilgrimage
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🇰🇪 'How do people get into crime? I can tell you I got into crime due to poverty.'

As Kenya’s cost of living rises, so does violent crime.

reporter Elijah Kanyi investigates the devastating human impact of illegal firearms in Kenya’s slums.

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Stand-up comedy is growing in popularity in India. Comedian Kanan Gill has toured the world. 'Everyone laughs at the same stuff,' he tells Nikki Bedi on The Arts Hour

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🔴 Hundreds feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide
🔴 Deadly airstrike on camp for displaced people in Rafah, Gaza
🔴 Gunmen abduct around 160 people from remote Nigerian village

Hear the latest on the Global News Podcast: bbc.in/3WV3gAQ

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