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The 11 monkeys found dead earlier include the critically endangered cotton-top tamarins, as well as white-faced sakis, common squirrel monkeys, and a De Brazza’s monkey. Authorities said they died due to melioidosis, an infectious disease that can spread through contact with contaminated soil, air, or water. It is caused by …

The tweet included a few words in Samoan which loosely translated as “looking forward to meeting the Samoan people”. Samoa, a small country in the central South Pacific Ocean made up of an archipelago of nine islands, is hosting a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which has the theme …

Lee Hsien Yang showed the BBC some documents including a letter stating his claim for asylum was successful. The letter also stated the UK government had given him “refugee status” for five years as it accepted he had the “well-founded fear of persecution and therefore cannot return to your country …

A few weeks ago, police in India discovered that scammers had set up a fake bank branch – complete with a logo, office furniture and even some employees – in a village in Chhattisgarh state. BBC Hindi pieced together what happened. Jyoti Yadav was delighted when she got a job …

“In my 10 years as a rescue paramedic I had never encountered a job quite like this, it was challenging but incredibly rewarding,” Peter Watts, a paramedic with New South Wales Ambulance service, said, according to a release on the service’s social media pages. She had already been upside down …

“No matter how large the scale of the drill is, they should not be frequent and close to Taiwan,” he told reporters. “This will only cause unnecessary tension.” Although Taipei has called the drills routine, analysts believe China is likely sending a message given their proximity to Taiwan. The exercises …

Indigenous activist Wayne Wharton was arrested outside the Sydney Opera House, as crowds waited for the King and Queen during the last day of their Australia tour. BBC footage shows Wharton shouting “he is a King of thieves” and “you have the blood on your hands of invasion” to crowds, …

Tributes have been made to a surfer who died after reportedly being impaled by a swordfish in Indonesia. Giulia Manfrini, 36, from Turin in northern Italy, had been surfing in the waters of the Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra Province, before the incident on Friday, according to reports. Two witnesses …

It is unclear what cooperation he was referring to. The ambassador did not confirm allegations that North Korea has sent troops to fight with Russia’s military. Pyongyang has also not commented on the allegations. South Korea has long accused the North of supplying weapons to Russia for use in the …

The industry is also facing competition from dozens of local and global streaming platforms in India. “I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with one of the most iconic production houses in our nation, along with my friend Karan Johar,” Poonawalla said in a press release. “We hope …

For context, between 2014 and 2017, authorities recorded 120 bomb hoax alerts, external at airports, with nearly half directed at Delhi and Mumbai, the country’s largest airports. This underscores the recurring nature of such threats in recent years, but this year’s surge has been sensational. “I am deeply concerned over …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed at least 18 polio cases in neighbouring Afghanistan this year, most of them in the south of the country. Pakistan is launching a nationwide polio vaccination campaign on 28 October to vaccinate more than 45 million children under the age of five against …

Content creators in Japan are going viral for buying and renovating cheap, abandoned homes known as akiyas. In Tokyo, akiyas can be purchased for a fraction of the price of what a home would cost in other major cities around the world. Outside major cities it’s even cheaper. In some …

Their camaraderie is expressed in songs like Chasing Lightning, external – where Yunjin is teased for her obsession with Greek yoghurt, and Sakura describes her love of crochet – and their latest single, 1-800 Hot N Fun, external. Powered by a sinuous bass guitar riff, it follows the band on …

Earlier this week, Putin introduced a bill to ratify a military pact he made with Kim, which pledges that Russia and North Korea will help each other in the event of “aggression” against either country. A military source in Russia’s Far East told BBC Russian this week that “a number …

Many places across Australia have declared they are in the grips of a youth crime crisis, and a string of violent incidents this year have prompted a series of youth curfews in the NT city of Alice Springs. Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said her government had been given a mandate …

“The court has… ordered the arrest of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and to produce her in court on November 18,” Mohammad Tajul Islam, the ICT’s chief prosecutor, told reporters on Thursday. “Sheikh Hasina was at the helm of those who committed massacres, killings and crimes against humanity in July …

The verdict has been met with strong protests from the victims’ families. Kim was indicted only last January, more than a year after the tragedy. The families said he should have been charged earlier. He was dismissed from his post in June after receiving disciplinary action over the crush, according …

At the time, state media reported Kim saying that inter-Korean relations had become “a relationship between two hostile countries and two belligerents at war”. Then, in January, he declared unification with South Korea as impossible, and hinted at constitutional changes to designate the South as the “principal enemy”. A string …

The subsequent days saw a torrent of online abuse from Indonesian football fans, who flooded the AFC’s social media pages with criticism and created created fake accounts impersonating Ahmed Al Kaf. Many fans alleged that the Omani referee had intentionally favoured a fellow Gulf nation by allowing the match to …