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Friday, 31 May 2019
Frank Lucas: Man who inspired American Gangster dies aged 88
Frank Lucas, played on-screen by Denzel Washington, was known for peddling heroin in Harlem.
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Canadian national inquiry: Giving a voice to missing and murdered women
Beverley Jacobs and Terri Brown fought tirelessly on behalf of missing and murdered indigenous women.
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Deaths of indigenous women was 'a Canadian genocide', leaked report says
Leaked national report describes possibly thousands of deaths of indigenous women as genocide.
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UK's Chagos Islands descendants feel like 'lost nation'
Evicted from their homeland, Chagos Islands families living in the UK are divided by immigration law.
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Venezuela crisis: What happened to uprising against Maduro?
A beleaguered people say they had hopes their misery would end but now they go back to one thing - survival.
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Sayyida Salme: The tragic life of Zanzibar's rebel princess
Sayyida Salme is a little known 19th Century princess who fled Zanzibar after scandalising the royals.
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MacKenzie Bezos: Novelist and Amazon shareholder
What do we know about the novelist who is the third-richest woman in the world?
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Tiananmen 30 years on - China's great act of 'forgettance'
Older people are not allowed to remember; the younger generation aren't even allowed to know.
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Trump announces tariffs on Mexico in latest anti-immigration measure
The US president says he will impose rising tariffs until Mexico ends illegal immigration into the US.
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GM fungus rapidly kills 99% of malaria mosquitoes, study suggests
A fungus has been genetically modified with spider venom to kill the mosquitoes that spread malaria.
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Louisiana passes law banning abortions after heartbeat is detected
Restrictive abortion law signed by the Democratic governor could ban abortions after just six weeks.
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Hungary boat crash: Captain of vessel involved in collision arrested
The collision between the vessel and a tour boat in Budapest has left at least seven people dead.
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Trump: Robert Mueller 'conflicted' and a 'Never Trumper'
The US president launches a fierce personal attack on the special counsel in the Russia inquiry.
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Spelling Bee: Can these parents spell as well as their kids?
Children at this year's US National Spelling Bee are facing words like horripilation and parochialism.
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Ethan Bramble: Tattooed model mocks arrest warrant in Australia
Police are seeking 23-year-old Instagram model Ethan Bramble, who has tattoos to 98% of his body.
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Philippines sends tonnes of rubbish back to Canada
The Philippines says the rubbish was falsely labelled as plastic recycling when it was sent in 2014.
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Uber posts $1bn loss weeks after stock market listing
The taxi company's first set of figures since going public come after its share price slumped.
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Claus von Bülow: Socialite cleared of trying to murder his wife dies aged 92
The socialite was convicted but later acquitted of giving his heiress wife an insulin overdose.
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R. Kelly facing 11 more sex crime charges
The new charges carry heavier sentences than the 10 others he already faces.
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The man who might have stopped Sri Lanka's Easter bombings
Few realised before the attacks that Sri Lanka had a problem with Islamist militancy. One man who did was Mohammad Razak Taslim.
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My Ramadan Diary: Fasting for 18 hours with depression and anxiety
We spent the day with Maryam to find out how she copes with her mental health issues while fasting for Ramadan.
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The sea-cooled eco-resort that's nearly mosquito-free
The Brando resort in French Polynesia is close to being carbon neutral and self-sustainable.
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Australia's 'new wave' of stereotype-shunning comedy
A new era of "seriously formidable" acts have shunned past stereotypes to find global success.
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Fran Rivera: Bullfighter sparks revenge porn row in Spain
Spanish women hit back at Fran Rivera's comments after a revenge porn victim took her own life.
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Champions League final: Everything you need to know
As Liverpool and Tottenham prepare to face each other in the Champions League final in Madrid, football broadcaster Lynsey Hooper shares an easy guide to the game.
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Erosion forcing Nigerian families to abandon their homes and farms
A community in southern Nigeria face losing their homes and food shortages due to erosion.
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Philippines sends rotting exported waste back to Canada
Exported waste, intended for recycling, is being sent back to Canada by the Philippines.
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Weighing little more than an apple at birth, Saybie is the smallest baby to ever survive
Saybie is believed to be the world's smallest infant to survive after weighing just 8.6 ounces or 245 grams at birth.
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Thursday, 30 May 2019
Julian Assange 'too ill' to appear for court hearing, says lawyer
WikiLeaks says its founder has been moved to the medical ward of Belmarsh Prison.
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Adel al-Jubeir: 'Saudi Arabia does not want a war with Iran'
The kingdom is hosting two summits of Gulf and Arab leaders to discuss growing tensions in the region.
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France's MeToo creator on trial for defaming man she accused
A French court hears a man whose career has been "ruined" after being accused of harassment.
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'Emotional support dog attack' on plane sparks US lawsuit
The American says he needed 28 stitches after the incident on a Delta Airlines flight.
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'World's smallest' surviving premature baby released from US hospital
Baby Saybie was given just hours to live when she was born weighing just 245g (8.6oz) in San Diego.
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NZ Treasury admits 'hack' was website blunder
New Zealand's Treasury admits it wasn't hacked, and budget details leaked out via its own website.
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