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Burying the bodies of people killed in Oleshky has been restricted by Russian occupation authorities, residents say. This has made counting the dead even harder. They “do not allow us to bury the dead if they were killed by a drone, stepped on a landmine or were killed in any other way”, said Tetiana. Russia’s […]

Campaigners hope the new words will lead to less body shaming and more sex positivity.

An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent gained unauthorised accessed to a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive Medicare information”, Albanese told a news conference at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Medicare refers to Australia’s universal healthcare scheme. The […]

US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace has announced a Gaza recovery plan worth $2.45 billion (£1.85 billion) during a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The funding will be spread across 66 programmes over six months, and directed at housing, diesel generation and waste removal, among other needs. But the board […]

Wildfires raging in Indonesia have produced toxic smog, causing around 175,000 people to suffer respiratory illnesses since August. The air quality in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore has reached unhealthy levels as a result of the toxic haze. The BBC’s Liza Tambunan explains the effects of the wildfires and how Indonesia is attempting to tackle them. […]

In a statement, the Polish Army Operational Command said the brief incursion had happened at 11:08 (09:08 GMT), and the helicopter had been tracked by radar. Poland’s air defence units were operating around the clock ready to “ensure the safety of Polish airspace”, it added. A number of Russian drones and one unarmed Russian missile […]

Hurricane Polo has rapidly intensified off the coast of Mexico to become one of the most powerful storms of the season in the Pacific Ocean. A Hurricane Hunter aircraft, operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), flew into the storm on Tuesday and recorded sustained wind speeds near 180 mph (285 km/h), […]

The European Union is to remove sanctions on two oligarchs imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to reports, prompting anger in Ukraine. France had campaigned for Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be taken off the list, citing “national security concerns”. Luxembourg called for the removal of Russian-Israeli businessman Mikhail Fridman, who […]

Speaking at the signing ceremony, Trump said: “We going to have a tremendous relationship, a secure relationship.” “This is tremendous for Europe and for the United States, for everybody, and for Greenland it’s going to be incredible.” Meanwhile, Frederiksen described the signing of the deal as a “milestone in our long-standing co-operation”. “Seventy-five years ago […]