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Scientists say they have successfully eliminated HIV from infected cells, using Nobel Prize-winning Crispr gene-editing technology. Working like scissors, but at the molecular level, it cuts DNA so "bad" bits can be removed or inactivated. The hope is to ultimately be able to rid the body entirely of the virus, although much more work is needed to …
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The European Union’s foreign policy chief has proposed a plan which would see revenue from Russian assets frozen in Europe transferred to the fund that finances weapons for Ukraine. Under Josep Borrell’s proposed plan, proceeds from assets such as interest payments would go to the European Peace Facility, an off-budget fund that provides military a…
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The Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar has announced he is stepping down with immediate effect as Fine Gael party leader and will resign as taoiseach as soon as his successor is selected. Announcing his resignation, Mr Varadkar described leading his country as "the most fulfilling time of my life". He became Ireland's youngest PM in 2017…
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The UK’s data watchdog is assessing a report that staff at the hospital where Catherine, Princess of Wales had surgery tried to view her private health information. It has been claimed that staff at the London Clinic "attempted to access her private medical reports". The Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) confirmed it received a "breach report…
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Millions face starvation in Sudan as warring factions block aid delivery As many as 5 million people are facing starvation in Sudan, where more people have been displaced by fighting than in any other conflict. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since war broke out in 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and their rivals, the paramilita…
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The Israeli military says it has taken control of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in what it called an operation to "thwart terrorist activity". It said troops killed 20 "terrorists", including a senior commander of Hamas's internal security force, and detained dozens of suspects during the raid. Witnesses described heavy exchanges of fire around th…
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Speculation over which actor will take on the role of James Bond has been mounting once again, after reports British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been offered the role.The Sun has reported the Kick-Ass and Marvel films actor has been "formally offered the job" as the 007 spy, formerly played by Daniel Craig.Craig left the role in 2021 after starr…
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Gaza's two million people are experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity", US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.This was the first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by the BBC about conditions in the territory.Mr Blinken called on Israel to prioritise providing for those in need. UN agencie…
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Bryan Emery was a fentanyl addict and lived on the streets of San Francisco for nearly three years.He spoke to the BBC about his experience in one of the US cities most affected by the opioid crisis - and how he was able to get clean almost a year ago.Fentanyl is a leading killer in the US - contributing to over 100,000 deaths in 2022, according to…
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There seems little the world can do for the moment, but simply watch Haiti slide further and further into anarchy. Gangs control much of the capital, Port au Prince, where the bodies of at least a dozen people were discovered in a wealthy suburb today, amid fighting with machete wielding militias, trying the protect their own neighbourhoods. Americ…
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Banksy has confirmed that he is behind a new artwork that appeared in north London on Sunday.The street artist uploaded before and after pictures of the Finsbury Park mural to social media on Monday.It shows green paint sprayed on a wall behind a cut-back tree to look like foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a sprayer next to it.Crowds have…
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A WhatsApp group helped save more than 50 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions. It is estimated there are around two million female domestic workers in the Gulf Arab states. BBC Africa Eye has followed a group of women who, working across three continents, have fought to bring the women home, often against impossible o…
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Vladimir Putin has addressed thousands of people in Moscow's Red Square, after claiming a landslide election win.President Vladimir Putin kept his remarks in the Russian capital uncharacteristically short, hailing the 10th anniversary of the annexation of Crimea and the more recent seizure of areas in the south and east of Ukraine.As a reminder, Ru…
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Haiti violence: US charter flight lands in Miami as clashes continue A chartered flight organised by The US State Department for its citizens stranded in Haiti, has landed in Miami. This comes as gang violence and hunger grip the impoverished country. Police in the capital Port-au-Prince are trying to recapture areas held by notorious gang leader J…
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The Israeli military says it has taken control of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in what it called an operation to "thwart terrorist activity". It said troops came under fire from hospital buildings and that 80 people had been detained and others killed, including "Hamas terrorists". Witnesses described heavy exchanges of fire around the site, wher…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed a landslide victory in Russia's presidential election, with election officials giving him more than 87% of the vote.However, Western countries have condemned the election as a sham, with no credible opposition candidate allowed.There was some symbolic opposition with the "Noon against Putin" initiative b…
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Vladimir Putin has claimed victory in Russia’s presidential election as exit polls declared that he had won more than 87% of the vote.Speaking at his campaign headquarters, Mr Putin thanked voters and “our warriors”, a reference to soldiers fighting in Ukraine. The result will secure Mr Putin another six years as Russian President. Thousands of peo…
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A state of emergency has been declared in southern Iceland because of a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula - the fourth since December. The last time the Reykjanes Peninsula had a period of volcanic activity was 800 years ago - and the eruptions went on for decades. This is now the seventh eruption since 2021, and scientists believe the a…
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Vladimir Putin is set to secure a fifth term as president of Russia, as the tightly-controlled election enters a final day. With his credible opponents jailed, exiled, or dead, there is little doubt that Putin will secure another six years as president. Meanwhile, the leader of Estonia, which borders Russia, warned that while Putin is good at "sowi…
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For centuries, museums around the world have been home to thousands of artworks and artefacts stolen from other countries.Many attempts to return these pieces to their native countries have failed - could a different approach work?This video is from BBC Click, the BBC’s flagship technology programme.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor more new…
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Russia’s presidential election has entered its second day of voting, with citizens heading to the polling booths. But, with President Vladimir Putin’s credible rivals either imprisoned, in exile, or dead, he is certain to win six more years in office after the vote. Voting is taking place in Russia over three days until Sunday. The first day of vot…
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India’s general election will take place in seven phases over April and May, the country’s Election Commission has said. With some 968 million eligible voters, India's election will be the largest the world has seen. Opinion polls predict a win for Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies, which is eyeing a record third term in p…
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Scientists have discovered that cancer develops at warp speed in space. But, this can also lead to new research aimed at stopping it. A team of scientists have teamed up with an aerospace company on a mission to the International Space Station, in order to conduct experiments on how cancer cells react – with the hope of ultimately developing drugs …
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Politicians including US President Joe Biden and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have found themselves victims of deepfakes.These are fake images or audio recordings generated by artificial intelligence and have spread rapidly across social media. Although, there are politicians across the world who have not only embraced this technology but used it on …
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Russians have begun voting in a presidential election which Vladimir Putin seems certain to win. Voters in Russia went to the polls across the country’s 11 time zones in an election that is expected to give Vladimir Putin’s another six years in the Kremlin. The Russian leader has no significant opposition. The authorities have banned some candidate…
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One in five working-age people in the UK aren’t in the workforce, a figure which has risen since the Covid pandemic.An increasing number of people are now ‘economically inactive’ - that means they are out of work but not seeking new employment.Ros Atkins examines the cost this is having on the UK economy.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor mor…
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The leaders of Germany, France and Poland are meeting in Berlin in an attempt to show unity with Ukraine. It has been seen as an effort to address diverging French and German policies when it comes to the defence of Ukraine. Germany remains Europe's biggest source of military aid for Ukraine, but Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it was now up…
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Officials in Gaza have accused Israeli forces of shooting at a crowd of Palestinians who were waiting for aid in Gaza City. The Hamas-run health ministry says at least 20 people have been killed, and more than 150 injured. The Israeli military says it did not open fire. A jetty has now been built on the Gaza coastline, which is thought to be used t…
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Voting has begun in Russia's presidential election, which is all but certain to hand Vladimir Putin another six years in power. Ballots will be cast over three days, even though the result is not in doubt as he has no credible opponent. Polling stations opened in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia's easternmost region, at 08:00 local time on Friday an…
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Open AI and the startup robotics firm Figure AI have released a video demonstrating the capabilities of a new visual language model. Figure 01 uses in "speech-to-speech" analysis via OpenAI's multimodal model, VLM, to understand images and texts. The robot relies on another voice conversation to craft its responses, as compared to written prompts i…
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Before the war broke out 62-year-old Siham was being treated at the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in north Gaza - the only cancer hospital in Gaza. She's one of approximately 10,000 cancer patients in Gaza - according to figures from Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry - who have been unable to get treatment or medicines since the hospital s…
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China has attacked a bill going through US Congress that could see TikTok banned nationwide, accusing it of "unjustly" behaving like a "bandit". The app is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, a Beijing-based firm registered in the Cayman Islands. While the bill passed overwhelmingly in the vote, it still needs to clear the Senate - but President Jo…
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US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has called for new elections in Israel to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It is a sharp escalation in US criticism of Mr Netanyahu's government. The comments come as Israel's military said it plans to move displaced civilians in Gaza to what it called "humanitarian islands”, ahead of any offensive …
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A new definition of extremism has been unveiled by the UK government, with Communities Secretary Michael Gove naming five groups to be assessed against it. The new definition will apply to - but not criminalise - groups promoting an ideology based on "violence, hatred or intolerance". But some groups and MPs have criticised the move - saying it cou…
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The Israeli military said it plans to move displaced Palestinians living in Rafah to ‘humanitarian islands’, ahead of its planned offensive in the area. There are not many details on how the 'islands' will work or what they look like - but Israeli officials have said there will be temporary housing and aid for 1.4 million Palestinians. More than ha…
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TikTok’s chief executive has vowed to ‘keep fighting’, after the US House of Representatives passed a bill that could see the app banned in the US. Shou Zi Chew warned that if the bill becomes law, it will mean the end of the app for its 170 million users in the US. While the bill passed overwhelmingly in the vote, it still needs to clear the Senat…
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Israel’s national security minister has congratulated a border officer who shot dead a 12-year-old Palestinian boy playing in the street, calling him a “hero” who deserved an award.Rami al-Halouli was setting off a firework with friends outside his home in occupied east Jerusalem when he was shot through the heart by the member of Israel’s border s…
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Women who freeze their eggs are being misled by some UK clinics about their chances of having a baby, a fertility charity says. The Fertility Network was reacting to BBC analysis that found 41% of clinics offering the service privately could be breaching advertising guidance. The watchdog which sets guidance says clinics "must not give false or mis…
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The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that could lead to a nationwide ban on TikTok. It would require the Chinese tech giant ByteDance to sell its stake in the app or face a ban from US app stores and web hosting platforms. A TikTok spokesperson said the bill was a "ban" and urged senators to listen to their constituents before taking a…
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A long-time ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been attacked outside his home in Lithuania. Leonid Volkov said his arm was broken and his leg hit 15 times with a hammer. Lithuanian intelligence said the attack was probably "Russian-organised and implemented" and Mr Volkov agrees. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For …
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The tiny village of Taesung sits deep in the heart of Korea’s Demilitarised Zone – the strip of no-man’s land separating North and South Korea. The community of South Koreans, many aged in their 80s and 90s, live mere metres from North Korea, meaning they must be guarded day and night by hundreds of soldiers. The village was established at the end …
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The UN says a new land route has been used to deliver food to northern Gaza for the first time in three weeks. The Israeli military said six lorries crossed via a gate in the Gaza border fence. This development comes as global pressure is growing for Israel to allow more aid access to the Palestinian territory where famine is looming. Subscribe her…
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The US said it expects the transitional council will be appointed in Haiti within the next two days, as the violence-ridden country is left without a leader. It will be tasked with nominating a new leader after the resignation of Ariel Henry on Monday. The UN said it strongly hopes the agreement will help end the violence carried out by the gangs t…
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US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have both passed the delegate thresholds to clinch their parties' nominations for the election in November. Four states, one American territory and Democrats living abroad held their primaries on Tuesday. The result means US voters face a rematch of the 2020 presidential election in eight mont…
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Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan can be extradited to the UK, a Romanian court has ruled.Andrew Tate, 37, and Tristan, 35, were detained in Bucharest after police in the UK said they had obtained an arrest warrant as part of an investigation into allegations of rape and human trafficking.The brothers can be extradited on…
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Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told BBC journalists they were detained, blindfolded, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital. Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being tortured by Israeli forces. He said he was held for a week in detention, muzzled dogs were set upon him and…
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