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QUESTION: This may seem to be a conspiracy theory, but has a double been sent in to pretend he is Trump. The anti-war old Trump has moved nuclear subs to the border of Russia, and the Telegraph reported that no president has ever played a game of nuclear brinkmanship. Trump looks different and much older
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In decline or in transition? Hamilton’s Ferrari start analysed Image source, PA Media Image caption, Lewis Hamilton has won two grands prix, plus this year’s sprint race in China, since the start of the 2022 season Lewis Hamilton left the last race of the first part of the Formula 1 season saying he was looking
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Today on BBC Verify published at 17:27 British Summer Time Thomas Copeland BBC Verify Live journalist We’re closing this live page soon but our verification team are continuing to look for footage and news lines from the shooting in Minneapolis – you can follow the BBC’s coverage on our main live page. Scroll back here
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Paul Kirby Europe digital editor Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has summoned the top US diplomat in Copenhagen, following a report that American citizens have been conducting “covert influence operations” in Greenland. Denmark’s public broadcaster DR quoted sources as saying the aim was to infiltrate Greenland’s society and promote its secession from Denmark to
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Suhnwook Lee BBC Korean, Seoul Fan Wang BBC News, Singapore Getty Images South Korea becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools South Korea has passed a bill banning the use of mobile phones and smart devices during class hours in schools – becoming the latest country to restrict phone use among children
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A group of 70,000 Cambodian Buddhist monks conducted a peaceful march to nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Some of the monks broke their vows of silence to discuss the reason for their nomination. On July 28, 2025, Thailand and Cambodia ended their five-day war over territorial disputes. Although neither country officially declared
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Ten years ago, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel began the migrant crisis after uttering, “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”) and declaring that Germany was a safe haven for all refugees. In a recent interview with ARD, Merkel was asked to reflect on her 2015 decision that permanently altered the European landscape. To the
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Paul Melly West Africa analyst EPA Russia has dangled the possibility of building a nuclear power plant in uranium-rich Niger – a vast, arid state on the edge of the Sahara desert that has to import most of its electricity. It may be deemed impractical and may never happen, but the concept is yet another
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Stephen McDonell China correspondent Reporting from Shennongjia, China Watch: The BBC visits golden snub-nosed monkeys at Shennongjia National Park, China Until the 1980s people roamed the mountains of Shennongjia in central China hunting monkeys for their meat and fur. Poor farmers were still clearing vast areas of trees, and as their environment collapsed around them
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The Miss Universe Organization declined to detail how Ayoub was selected, with vice president of international relations Mario Bucaro saying only that “all applications are carefully reviewed.” A Canadian-raised model is set to represent participate in the Miss Universe pageant in Thailand this November as Miss Palestine. This comes even as questions are raised over
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