Israel Gaza: Palestinians sheltering in Rafah fear impending offensive
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68276216?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 9:50 PM
The UN warns an assault on the Gaza city sheltering more than a million people would be "terrifying".
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Watch: 'Whose daughter is she?' – on patrol with Gaza's paramedics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68280216?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2024, 1:04 AM
As waves of air strikes hit in the first month of war, BBC News Arabic followed the tireless first responders.
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Kenyan marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum dies in road accident
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68270866?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 4:54 PM
The 24-year-old Kenyan athlete had the potential to be one of the greatest runners over 42km.
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Kiptum's last BBC interview before fatal accident
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68278910?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 6:06 PM
The Kenyan athlete spoke to the BBC in 2023 about beating Eliud Kipchoge's marathon world record.
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US defence chief cancels Nato trip after hospital admission
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68278651?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2024, 12:28 AM
The US defence secretary is being treated for an "emergent bladder issue" but is expected back on Tuesday.
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Sweden water park: Video shows huge fire engulfing newly built attraction
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68279358?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 6:08 PM
Video shows huge flames and thick smoke rising from large water slides in Gothenburg.
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RFK Jr apologises to family over Super Bowl ad
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68275635?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 8:55 PM
The advertisement, aired just before halftime, spliced images of the candidate into a 1960 JFK ad.
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Lakewood Church: Armed woman killed in Joel Osteen Texas megachurch shootout
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68277166?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2024, 1:18 AM
The 36-year-old attacker's seven-year-old son was critically injured in the shootout in Houston.
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Trump endorses daughter-in-law Lara Trump for RNC leadership
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68255431?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2024, 2:34 AM
A successful co-chair bid for Lara Trump would shift the Republican committee closer to Mr Trump's campaign.
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Europe needs a decade to build up arms stocks, says defence firm boss
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68273449?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 5:48 PM
The head of Rheinmetall, Germany's biggest defence firm, says Europe's ammunition stocks are currently empty.
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Polish state TV host decries past anti-LGBT output
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68278630?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 6:52 PM
Wojciech Szelag apologised to LGBT people for the TVP Info channel's "hateful words" targeted at them.
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Spain: Eight arrests after two officers die in 'narco-boat' chase
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68273448?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 1:21 PM
Drug traffickers rammed their speedboat against a smaller police vessel near Cadiz, in southern Spain.
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Brazil: Rio de Janeiro Carnival brings Amazon rainforest to the streets
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68275244?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 1:14 PM
Indigenous communities were celebrated at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí on Sunday evening.
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Rocío San Miguel: Venezuelan rights activist detained over alleged plot
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68252226?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 1:39 PM
The Maduro government accuses Rocío San Miguel of conspiring to kill the president.
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DR Congo protests: Police fire tear gas to disperse anti-Western demonstrations in Kinshasa
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68273900?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 6:32 PM
Protesters demand that foreign powers use their influence over Rwanda to curb conflict in the east.
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Israel’s assault on Rafah looms, but no plan yet to evacuate civilians
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68274757?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 5:58 PM
Aid agencies say there is nowhere safe to move the 1.5 million people now sheltering in the city.
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Gaza war: What we know about Israel's Rafah hostage rescue raid
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68276452?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 5:50 PM
Israeli commandos rescued two men in an operation that reportedly killed dozens of Palestinians.
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Bowen: Gazans fled to Rafah for safety but now Israel wants to attack
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68272136?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 6:57 AM
Israel says it will expand its military operations all the way south into Rafah.
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Israel to act on soldier misconduct after BBC investigation
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68277124?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 5:15 PM
A BBC Verify investigation found videos showing detainees that legal experts say may breach international law.
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Gaza residents surviving off animal feed and rice as food dwindles
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68239320?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 10, 2024, 5:30 PM
The UN says hundreds of thousands of people in the territory are at growing risk of famine.
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Hind Rajab, 6, found dead in Gaza days after phone calls for help
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68261286?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 10, 2024, 11:34 AM
Hind was last heard from trapped in a car under fire, surrounded by bodies of her relatives, 12 days ago.
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Israel-Gaza war: Death and Israel’s search for ‘total victory’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68255843?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 11, 2024, 8:22 PM
Jeremy Bowen looks at Gaza's humanitarian crisis and a growing panic in Rafah over a looming Israeli offensive.
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Israel-Gaza war: US says it will not back unplanned Rafah offensive
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68247050?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 9, 2024, 1:59 PM
The White House says it won't support operations in the southern Gaza city without due consideration for refugees there.
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Gaza ceasefire: Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu rejects Hamas's proposed terms
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68232883?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 7, 2024, 10:30 PM
Israel's PM insists he will accept only "total victory", and calls Hamas's truce terms "delusional".
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Israel-Gaza war: Palestinians who fled to Rafah fear Israeli assault
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68249363?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 9, 2024, 12:40 PM
Forced to move time and time again, Palestinians insist that fleeing to Egypt is not an option.
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Guarding the Middle East's most dangerous border
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68231543?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 8, 2024, 12:00 AM
Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah are intensifying as the risk of a wider regional conflict grows.
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Israel-Gaza war: Unknown fate of six-year-old Hind Rajab trapped under fire
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68180642?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 5, 2024, 5:07 PM
Six-year-old Hind was last heard from trapped in a car surrounded by bodies - then the line went dead.
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Western officials in protest over Israel Gaza policy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68177357?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 2, 2024, 12:56 PM
More than 800 officials in the US and Europe have penned a letter calling for more pressure on Israel.
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What are routes out of this 'dangerous moment' in Middle East?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68167920?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 3, 2024, 2:45 PM
BBC's Paul Adams asks whether US strikes on Iraq and Syria made a regional conflagration more likely.
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Gunshots heard in Texas megachurch
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68279126?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 5:24 PM
People are seen fleeing inside the Houston church - one of the largest evangelical churches in the US.
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RFK Jr v JFK Super Bowl ad: Spot the difference
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68277919?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 4:21 PM
A political advert played during the NFL game echoed one from a familiar face more than 60 years ago.
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Watch: Kelce and Swift celebrate at the Super Bowl
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68274306?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 11:18 AM
The pop icon flew in from Japan to watch her boyfriend play in Las Vegas at the 2024 championship game.
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'Don't take the side of a thug who kills' - Nikki Haley to Donald Trump
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68269820?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 11, 2024, 10:07 PM
She was speaking after Donald Trump said he'd encourage Russia to attack Nato members who "failed to pay".
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Trump says he would not protect Nato allies who do not pay bills
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68266651?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 11, 2024, 5:19 AM
Donald Trump says he would "encourage" Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to Nato members not paying their share.
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Enter the Dragon... crowds roar in Lunar New Year
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-68264751?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 10, 2024, 10:06 PM
Lunar New Year festivities usher in the Year of the Dragon and end of the Year of the Rabbit.
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Fireball blazes across Hawaii as object falls to Earth
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68264541?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 10, 2024, 4:50 PM
Mauna Kea Observatory captures moment unidentified object re-enters the atmosphere.
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Why US economy is powering ahead of Europe's
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68203820?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2024, 1:31 AM
A fast-growing economy, low jobless numbers and falling inflation - how the US outpaced competitors.
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Taylor Swift: Inside a world-first 'Swiftposium' academic summit
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-68271324?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 4:03 PM
The BBC goes inside the world's most dedicated effort to chart Taylor Swift's power and influence.
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Why the race to replace George Santos matters beyond New York
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68280588?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 13, 2024, 3:21 AM
Democrat Tom Suozzi and Republican Mazi Pilip are running a campaign closely watched by both parties.
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Paytm: Rockstar Indian fintech start-up faces serious crisis
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-68248364?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 11:23 PM
Paytm - India's famous payments app - is facing a regulatory crackdown that's impacting millions.
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Senegal election crisis: 'We feel betrayed by President Macky Sall'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68253255?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 9:18 AM
Imams and protesters unite in anger at a poll delay rocking Senegal's democratic credentials.
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Afcon: Ivory Coast football fans flock to see Abidjan victory parade
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68256312?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 7:13 PM
Ivory Coast began the tournament as the underdogs of Afcon but rose to become champions.
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Trinidad and Tobago Carnival: Blue devils breathe fire into event
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-68250796?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 2:35 AM
Covered in a blue paste, the masqueraders add colour and tradition to the annual event.
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Pakistan election: What happens after Imran Khan vote surprise?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68271462?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
February 12, 2024, 8:10 AM
Days after the vote, Pakistanis still don't know who will form their next government.
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