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Saturday, July 11, 2026 5:10 PM ET

BBC News - World

Iran supreme leader calls for revenge for father's killing -- Mojtaba Khamenei says vengeance is "inevitable" for the killing, which happened on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran.

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South Africa World Cup midfielder Adams dies aged 25 -- South Africa and Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Jayden Adams dies at the age of 25, just weeks after featuring for his country at the World Cup.

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US Democrat Ro Khanna says he was detained by armed Israeli settlers -- Khanna, 49, was visiting the occupied West Bank when he was held for 90 minutes, he says.

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Spain battles to contain one of its deadliest wildfires as at least 12 killed -- At least four Britons are believed to be among the victims of the blaze, which left another 23 people missing.

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Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over Air Force One reporting -- The reporters received the legal summons after they reported on alleged security issues with the president's new plane, which was gifted by Qatar.

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Polish PM pledges memorial to victims of WW2 'genocide by Ukrainian nationalists' -- Warsaw and Kyiv have for decades been at loggerheads over the killings of many thousands of civilians during World War Two.

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More than 40 kidnapped children and teachers freed after Nigerian army operation -- "I feel happy and elated... I feel joy," the head of the local teachers' union tells the BBC.

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Indian tourists among 15 killed as speedboat capsizes in Vietnam -- Local media say 21 people were saved after the boat overturned in rough seas near an island in south Vietnam.

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US pays out $3m to victims of mystery Havana Syndrome condition reported by spies -- US officials and diplomats and their families began reporting a mysterious illness a decade ago.

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Landmark US housing bill becomes law despite Trump protest -- The president had wanted voter ID legislation passed before the housing law, which aims to reduce costs and increase supply.

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New dinosaur species as long as cricket pitch discovered in Thailand -- The plant-eating dinosaur, named Uragasaurus kalasinensis, is thought to have lived about 150 million years ago.

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Meet the crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote -- They think democracy has run its course - so they're setting up their own nations instead.

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The photo that shows who's really on top in Le Pen's party -- Thirty-year-old Jordan Bardella had been groomed for success as France's next hard-right leader. He will now have to wait longer.

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Dating can be hard in South Korea - so the monks stepped in -- Dating can be hard in South Korea. A group of monks hope a 30-hour rural retreat can help.

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At Canada's biggest rodeo, the starting gun is fired in the fight over Alberta separation -- Canadian unity takes centre stage at the Calgary Stampede as fears of a Brexit-style upset looms over the October vote on Alberta's future.

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Will Trump Accounts deliver for American children? -- The White House has hailed the project as giving new generations a stake in the American dream, but the scheme has its critics.

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'We escaped Spanish wildfire, but our friends lost their lives' -- Hundreds of firefighters in Spain have been battling a deadly wildfire in the south of the country.

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Newly-released video shows Peter Falconio's killer questioned -- Australian police have released bodycam footage showing one of the last attempts to get Bradley Murdoch to reveal the location of Peter Falconio's body, on the 25th anniversary of his murder.

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Watch: Inside the 30-hour dating retreat run by monks -- Forget coffee or drinks, the latest dating trend in South Korea takes place somewhere very different, a Buddhist temple.

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Boxy forms and odd lights: US declassifies more UFO files -- The US government published a fourth instalment of unresolved cases, promising to release more files on a rolling basis.

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Watch: What links a bomb in Monaco and a shooting in Ukraine? -- A Ukrainian intelligence agent who confessed to killing the woman suspected of trying to assassinate a multimillionaire in Monaco, has now claimed he did not pull the trigger.

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Thousands attend Orange Order parade in Rossnowlagh -- The Rossnowlagh demonstration takes place each year on the Saturday before the main Twelfth of July.

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China's second typhoon in a week makes landfall -- Nearly two million people are evacuated from eastern Zhejiang province, with the city of Wenzhou close to the path of the storm.

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Sixteen starve to death in Uganda as drought kills crops -- Climate change, poor rainfall, deforestation, overgrazing and crop pests are to blame, say experts.

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