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Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright, Giuffre claimed in memoir

October 16, 2025 - 06:48
Virginia Giuffre, who took her life earlier this year, gives her account of meeting Prince Andrew.
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Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright, Giuffre claimed in memoir

October 16, 2025 - 06:48
Virginia Giuffre, who took her life earlier this year, gives her account of meeting Prince Andrew.
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Trump confirms he authorised CIA action inside Venezuela

October 16, 2025 - 06:30
But the president would not be drawn on whether the CIA had been told to topple Nicolas Maduro.
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Hamas returns two more bodies but says it cannot retrieve remaining dead hostages

October 16, 2025 - 05:56
The group's armed wing says it has returned all the bodies of hostages it can reach in the ruins of Gaza.
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Syria's Sharaa meets Putin in Moscow for first time since fall of Assad

October 16, 2025 - 04:08
Syria's leader suggested he would continue to allow Russia access to its military bases in Syria.
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Cracked windscreen forces US Defence Secretary's plane to make unscheduled landing in UK

October 16, 2025 - 03:57
The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.
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Ukraine imposes blackouts in most regions after Russian power grid attacks

October 16, 2025 - 03:57
This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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UN humanitarian chief urges Israel to open more crossings into Gaza

October 16, 2025 - 03:31
Palestinians in Gaza are reported to be stockpiling food, amid anxiety that the ceasefire will unravel.
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'Worse than starting from scratch': How big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?

October 16, 2025 - 02:27
BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.
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'Worse than starting from scratch': how big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?

October 16, 2025 - 02:27
BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.
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War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged Sudan city

October 16, 2025 - 01:51
Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.
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War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged Sudan city

October 16, 2025 - 00:16
Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.
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Gaza experts work to identify bodies of 90 Palestinians returned by Israel

October 15, 2025 - 23:52
Under the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel has agreed to hand over the bodies of 15 Palestinians in return for every dead Israeli hostage.
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Row over bringing back military service splits German government

October 15, 2025 - 23:33
Plans to re-introduce military service have been thrown into chaos because of an 11th hour disagreement.
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Watch: Freed prisoner finds family alive after thinking they had been killed

October 15, 2025 - 22:10
Shadi Abu Sido told the BBC an Israeli prison officer said his family had been killed.
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'He transformed R&B forever' - Stars pay tribute to D’Angelo, after his death at 51

October 15, 2025 - 17:42
The Grammy-winning singer, who died of cancer, "transformed R&B forever", says Beyoncé.
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Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga dies aged 80

October 15, 2025 - 17:31
Odinga died on Wednesday while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in India, family sources tell the BBC.
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Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 16

October 15, 2025 - 15:56
The dead have been burned beyond recognition and officials have warned that the toll could rise.
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Bowen: Trump's role in Gaza ceasefire was decisive, but not a roadmap to peace

October 15, 2025 - 15:52
Trump's Middle East visit was a victory lap - but peace does not emerge just because a president decides it.
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China seizes 60,000 maps over 'mislabelled' Taiwan

October 15, 2025 - 14:51
The maps also omitted "important islands", the source of competing claims between Beijing and its neighbours.
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