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WATCH LIVE: The state funeral of Shinzo Abe
World figures have arrived in the Japanese capital Tokyo to attend the state funeral of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, who was assassinated by a man using a home-made firearm on July 8, 2022. Source: AP
Family travel world before children go blind – BBC News
A Canadian family is travelling the world before their children go blind. When three of Edith and Sébastian’s four children were diagnosed with a genetic disease that will eventually leave them blind, they decided to give their children as many visual memories as they could – and see the world. Retinitis pigmentosa is a condition that people are born with and carriers of the gene…
Russian detainees expose Moscow police officer who tortured them – BBC News
On 6 March, huge anti-war demonstrations across Russia saw more than 5,000 protesters arrested. 29 were taken to Moscow’s Brateyevo Police Station for questioning. There, an unnamed police officer wearing black subjected at least 11 young women to verbal and physical abuse, often amounting to torture. This included suffocation. Two of the detainees recorded their ordeals and on release leaked the audio to the press….
Putin supporters back “referendums” to annex east Ukraine – BBC News
Voting has begun in four regions of Ukraine that have been seized and occupied by Russian forces, in so-called independence referendums. People in Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson have been told to vote on proposals for their regions to leave Ukraine and become part of Russia. Ukraine and its allies have denounced the ballots as a sham to justify the annexation of Ukrainian territory. In…
Ukraine frontline: Bakhmut – a city under relentless Russian attack – BBC News
Heavy fighting is continuing in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region which Russian forces have been trying to take for months, but where Ukrainian troops have made recent gains. President Putin’s stated aim is to gain full Russian control of the Donbas region. The city of Bakhmut is on the frontline of the fighting and under relentless Russian shelling. Huw Edwards presents a BBC News at Ten…
Inbound travellers to Hong Kong excited about end to hotel quarantine after 2 years
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Travellers to Hong Kong no longer have to undergo hotel quarantine, as of September 26, 2022. It marks the first time that the city, once a global transport hub, has fully reopened to travellers since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Related story: Joyful scenes at Hong Kong airport as city welcomes arrivals under ‘0+3’ scheme…
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