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More than a third of Tuvalu citizens have entered the ballot for a world-first climate visa which would allow them to permanently migrate to Australia. At just five metres (16ft) above sea level, the tiny Pacific archipelago is one of the most climate-threatened nations in the world.

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#BREAKING 🇺🇸🇨🇦 #USA President Donald Trump has said he is cutting off #trade talks with #Canada "immediately" as the country looks to start enforcing a tax policy targeting big tech companies.

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Imagine how high the rating could be if successive British governments hadn't starved the BBC of funds, causing it to lay off countless numbers of experienced and committed staff.

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@barakravid.bsky.social: “BREAKING: Trump responds to Khamenei's speech by suspending work on sanctions relief for Iran. Trump wrote: I SAVED HIM FROM A VERY UGLY AND IGNOMINIOUS DEATH”

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Climate change.

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Instructive. BBC News tops Reuters Institute table of public opinion on brand trust for news.

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The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

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What news on the Rialto? Nuclear Wintour packed up by Amazon.

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The US pumps millions into Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - but MSF calls the scheme "slaughter masquerading as aid." Also: US set to get rare earth metals after deal with Beijing, and a breakthrough against a rare disease.

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Words To Live By Number 221 (Or ‘sit by the river long enough and the bones of your enemies will come floating by.’

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The risk to #BBCPersian journalists+families: "After the conflict began, threats directed at BBC Persian journalists and their families have become increasingly severe...Security officials told their families that, in a wartime context, they are justified in targeting family members as hostages."

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@sameerhashmi.bsky.social in Dubai looks back on 2 weeks of uncertainty+concerns the world’s busiest oil shipping channel, The Strait of Hormuz, might shut. Some countries are looking for alternatives, eg pipelines/developing refineries. What of the future relationship between Gulf states+Iran?

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EXCL: International law is at the heart of Sir Keir Starmer's government and its approach to foreign policy, the attorney general Richard Hermer has said. In his first broadcast interview, he said the government was "determined to lead on international law issues” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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STARMER'S STORMY YEAR A new BBC Radio 4 programme by me and ace producer Leela Padmanabhan, available NOW From winter fuel to welfare, tax to Trump - I've been speaking to insiders from the PM down to uncover the real story of the past 12 months www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Fascinating especially in the personal story of his year. ‘No leader moves forward seamlessly without making mistakes,” he says. “But if you look back at what happened in 2021, it was when I resolved we were never making the same mistake again. If there’s one thing about me, it’s that I learn.”’ 1/

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🚨 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 UKICE Lunch Hour: One year of Keir 💻 Online 📆 Mon 7 July, 1-2pm BST Join @anandmenon.bsky.social, John McTernan, @jillongovt.bsky.social & Kate Devlin as they take stock of the Labour Party’s first year in government ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

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@edwardlucas.bsky.social on the ‘Potemkin’ #NATO summit the cost of flattering Trump “Ukraine is falling through the cracks As the summit buzzed and blathered, Russian drone+rocket anacks Kilce scores or ukrainiao civilians, barely making a headline. Cowardice looks cheap when others pay the bill”

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At first glance this is a predictable consequence of the libertarian dismantling of the federal state. I suspect we'll see similar expressions of localized responses to RFK's assault on health care. But it gets to an under-recognized logical outcome of Trump II. 1/

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@johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC World Affairs Ed, looks back at the many dictators and autocrats he has met or reported on during his 60-year career. He digs into his extensive archives to tell the stories of these ruthless leaders, of how they came to power, and how they finally lost it.

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‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

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Anyone interested in seeing the debate on funding of #BBCWorldService can watch here, starting around 15.08. Cross party consensus on need for proper stable funding for a vital service+soft power asset, but minister Catherine West says this will be best done in BBC Charter Renewal 2027. Too late!

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The cost of living alone crisis: We had so many emails and messages into this week’s Money Box Live on the extra cost of being single. Really interesting, do listen

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NEW: BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news & rolling TV coverage. Guardian scoop confirmed! “Premium experience” will give users unlimited news/feature articles & a BBC News channel livestream. Will there be demand in the age of polarisation? Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

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I think you can watch the Westminster Hall debate on the funding of the #BBCWorldService live at 3pm by googling parliamentlive.tv/Guide and clicking on Westminster Hall section. I think you can join in and rewind a little if you miss the beginning.

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Chris Greenway #BBCMonitoring: #BBCWorldService now aired 2000-2100 GMT daily via powerful mediumwave transmitter in Lithuania (1386 AM). Programming is mix of English+Russian. The transmitter is widely heard, inc in western Russia+has been used for years by other broadcasters to reach Russians.

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Checking sources has always been incredibly important - and it seems like some PR tactics are changing

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"We are ready for the most absurd things."

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#BBCPersian's Kasra Naji: "What was it all for, many are asking". Conflict within Iranian govt; its strategic failure; on crackdowns; the potential for compromise or chaos; on a disunited, disorganised opposition, and on the fears and unhappiness of the Iranian people. #Iran

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@johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social + #BBCPersian’s Baran Abbasi: has the Iranian regime successfully weathered the storm caused by the attacks by Israel+US? The state of the #NATO alliance with BBC Defence Corr Jonathan Beale; the ferocious gangland culture of Cape Town in South Africa.

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