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The Taliban have burned musical instruments in Afghanistan, claiming music "causes moral corruption".Thousands of dollars worth of musical equipment went up in smoke on a bonfire on Saturday in western Herat province.Since taking power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed numerous restriction...
India's Supreme Court has questioned the federal government on "systemic" and "unabated" violence in the north-eastern state of Manipur while hearing a petition filed by two women who were seen in a video that sparked outrage.The viral video showed the women being paraded nak...
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A Hong Kong court has struck down the government's request to ban from the internet the unofficial anthem of the island's pro-democracy movement.Judge Anthony Chan ruled that granting the ban could have had "chilling effects" on freedom of speech.Authorities have been angered by he...
Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest after the military detained her following a coup in February 2021.Ms Suu Kyi was taken to a government building in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday, prison sources told BBC Burmese. She'd spent a year in solitary confineme...
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An Arizona girl who disappeared nearly four years ago has turned up at a police station in Montana.Thousands of tips have come in to the FBI and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children since Alicia Navarro allegedly ran away in 2019.On Tuesday, police in her hometown of Glendale, Arizona, said...
At least 15 people have been killed and thousands evacuated after wildfires broke out across Algeria, the country's interior ministry says.Outbreaks of 97 wildfires were recorded across 16 provinces affecting forest, crops and farmland on Monday.Around 7,500 firefighters were working to bring th...
Thirty-three people have died in Cameroon's biggest city after a four-storey building collapsed and fell onto another residential block, firefighters say.It happened early on Sunday morning in Douala's Ange Raphaëlneighbourhood and the cause is still not clear.At least 21 people have be...
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A heatwave baking the US Southwest for weeks is set to expand into central and eastern regions.Beginning in the Midwest, the hot weather will extend east as far as the southern tip of Florida by Wednesday, say meteorologists.Temperature records were shattered in several major cities over the weekend...
Russia has accused Ukraine of being behind a drone attack that damaged at least two buildings in the capital Moscow early on Monday morning. The Russian defence ministry said two drones were "suppressed and crashed", adding that there were no casualties. Russia's state-owned ...
Four people in Canada, including two children, have been reported missing in flooding caused by torrential rains in Nova Scotia, police have said.Officials say the heaviest rains to hit the Atlantic region in 50 years have triggered floods that have left thousands of homes without electricity.Three ...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed an order to tighten gun controls in a bid to halt a surge in firearm ownership.Under Lula's far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, there was an almost seven-fold rise in registered users.Limits will be placed on stockpiles of guns and ammu...
Questions are being asked about the role of the police in the ghastly incident where two women were paraded naked by a mob of men in India's Manipur state.A video of the incident, which took place on 4 May, went viral on Wednesday and caused global outrage.On Thursday, police opened a case of ga...
Fifteen people have died after an electricity transformer exploded on the banks of the Alaknandariver in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand.Authorities say a police official and five home guards are among those killed in the accident which took place in Chamoli district.The state's chief mini...
A highly qualified American economist, Fiona Scott Morton, has pulled out of a top European Commission post after her appointment prompted widespread European criticism.She said that "given the political controversy", the best course of action was not to take up the job of Chief Competitio...
Israel has condemned the EU's outgoing envoy to the Palestinians after he paraglided over Gaza's coast to draw attention to the blockade of the strip.A video showed Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff declaring he had carried out "the first Gaza paragliding flight in history"."...
Red alerts for extreme heat are in place in most of Italy's main cities as a heatwave intensifies in Europe.Temperatures are expected to peak on Wednesday, with 23 cities on high alert - from Trieste in the north-east to Messina in the south-west.The warnings mean the heat poses a threat to ever...
Women in Afghanistan have held a rare protest against the Taliban's decision to shut female beauty parlours and salons.Women shouted "work, bread and justice" while they were gathered in the capital city, Kabul.Taliban guards responded with water cannons, and some protesters said stun ...
India's space chief says a giant metal dome that washed up on an Australian beach was definitely part of a rocket - but may or may not be Indian."We can't confirm it's ours unless we analyse it," S Somanath told the BBC.There has been wild speculation about the object ever sinc...
Thai reformist Pita Limjaroenrat's bid to be nominated prime minister has ended, prompting outrage from his supporters after he won May's election.The 42-year-old was first dramatically suspended from parliament by the constitutional court, forcing him to leave the debating chamber.Lawmakers...
Travis King, the American soldier who fled to North Korea, had been detained for getting into fights in South Korea before he crossed the border.Court documents showed he also damaged a police car and had recently spent time in a detention facility in Seoul. The 23-year-old serviceman had been ...
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