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BBC News - World

Thousands of European troops to rehearse Ukraine deployment in event of peace -- Western officials stress that any force sent to Ukraine would not take part in any offensive operations.

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LIVE - Supreme Court rejects Trump's California ballot demands as Democrats rally on midterms eve - The Trump administration had requested to sideline 20,000 ballots that it alleged may have been issued to non-American citizens in the state.

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Legal challenge to Australia's social media ban to start in High Court -- A rights group will argue the world-leading policy robs under-16s of their right to free communication.

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Plane may have broken apart ahead of deadly Florida jet crash, say investigators -- The National Transportation Safety Board also believes weather could have been a factor in the crash, but warns it is too early to determine the cause.

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Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack -- The temperature of freezers in several shops across Europe reportedly rose to as high as 50C.

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Fighting returns to Kherson region after longest Ukraine war ceasefire -- Though unprecedented, the six-day truce has done little to alter the wider trajectory of a war that continues to grinds on.

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North Korea denies being behind record $6.3bn Binance hack -- US government agencies and cyber analysts have blamed Pyongyang for the record-breaking heist.

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Man and boy arrested after allegedly attacking One Nation volunteer with baseball bat in Australia -- The incident comes amid growing calls for the temperature of political debate in Australia to be turned down.

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Man guilty of stealing cash from farm owned by South African president -- The case, part of the "Farmgate" scandal, has left President Cyril Ramaphosa mired in an impeachment saga.

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Dutch police offer record €2m reward in hunt for drug lord -- Jos Leijdekkers has been found guilty in absentia of cocaine smuggling and is believed to be in Sierra Leone.

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Trump to remove Rwanda and South Africa from US trade deal -- The move comes barely a week after Rwanda's defence ministry was hit with sanctions by the US Treasury.

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Bollywood film star Ranbir Kapoor on AI, movies and fatherhood -- The film star plays the leading role in a major new adaptation of the Indian epic Ramayana.

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What Florida jet audio and flight data tells us about its final moments -- A private jet crashed in Florida on Sunday, killing all nine people on board, according to US authorities.

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'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack -- Dozens of supermarkets in seven European countries dumped huge quantities of food after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack.

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What we know about the alert app hack in Ukraine and Russia -- Both Ukraine and Russia say their air raid alert apps were cyber-attacked - Joe Tidy explains what we know so far.

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'I couldn't be silent': Iranian teen's mother seeking justice after daughter shot dead -- BBC Panorama follows grieving Samira who - after the killing of Sevda - faces up to the Tehran regime.

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If hackers can take control of a supermarket freezer, how vulnerable is other tech? Dozens of shops across European countries have been hit by a cyber-attack affecting their fridges. 9 hrs ago

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Democrats have high hopes for midterms - but are the polls right? -- Polls have been predicting a Democratic surge, but last-minute deciders and sampling issues mean there's no guarantee. -- US & Canada

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US midterms campaign 'shattering' spending records to be most expensive ever -- The 2026 campaign is projected to cost nearly $12bn - BBC Verify looks into where all that money has come from.

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Iran killed her teenage daughter - now she is facing up to the regime -- Samira's 16-year-old daughter Sevda was shot dead as they took part in mass protests in January.

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Russian bombing kills 26 people at Ukraine aid centre, Kyiv says -- Officials say at least nine 3,000kg aerial bombs hit a southern Ukrainian village in what the president called an "utterly horrific" attack.

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Who are the victims of the deadly Florida jet crash? -- Sunday's crash killed all nine people aboard, including a tech entrepreneur and his young family, as well as the 20-year-old copilot.

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Trump targets midterm voters with final campaign speech at Reflecting Pool -- In his last public speech before crucial midterm elections, the president gave a detailed recounting of the Washington landmark's troubled renovation.

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Indonesia's toxic haze is giving its neighbours a political headache -- Governments in Singapore and Malaysia are split between anxious citizens and an irascible neighbour.

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