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Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News BBC The Raybird can fly non-stop more than 1,000km to hit targets deep inside Russia At a secret location away from prying eyes, Ukrainian engineers test a long-range drone called Raybird. The machine, which looks like a mini plane with wings, is placed on a launchpad, stretched like an arrow on … Read more
Yoh! I’m so gatvol of this tjoekie and need a zol to handle these moggy people. No, these are not grammatical errors – this is a sentence comprising South African words included in the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) latest update. It means: Wow, I’m so annoyed by this prison and need to smoke some marijuana … Read more
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt its efforts to arrest and deport a Columbia University student for participating in pro-Palestinian protests. Yunseo Chung, 21, a legal permanent resident who moved to the US from South Korea as a child, had filed a lawsuit alleging immigration officials had executed search warrants at … Read more
The Sudanese army has told the BBC it has recaptured the airport in the capital, Khartoum, from the paramilitary RSF, marking its latest territorial gain in the brutal two-year civil war. Gen Mahomed Abdel Rahman al-Bilawi said troops had fully secured it and might be able to clear the rest of the RSF fighters by … Read more
India’s Supreme Court has put on hold a recent high court court which said that “grabbing [the] breasts” of a girl and breaking off the drawstrings of her lower garment could not be considered an attempt to rape. The Allahabad high court had ruled last week that the offence could only be described as “aggravated … Read more
It was Sunday, 19 January 2020. All attempts to negotiate a new role for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex within the royal family had failed, and Harry and Meghan were about to head off to a new life in the United States. Prince Harry made one final speech about how he was feeling. He … Read more
Tessa Wong, Hosu Lee and Jean Mackenzie BBC News News1 The commission’s chairperson Park Sun-young (left) comforted adoptee Yooree Kim (right) during an emotionally charged press conference South Korean governments committed numerous human rights violations over decades in a controversial programme that sent at least 170,000 children and babies abroad for adoption, a landmark inquiry … Read more
As the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is deepening, there are fear the war could spread to its neighbours. A ceasefire was reached between the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group and the Congolese army but it was short-lived. Now the prospects of a spillover into neighbouring Burundi is raising concerns. Nomsa Maseko was … Read more
Words including “class” and “spice bag” have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in its latest update. A number of new words including eight Hiberno-English/Irish-English words have been added to mark popular words and phrases. The OED said it wanted to incorporate “loan words” – words that would be coined as “untranslatable” but … Read more