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Weeks of dry weather and soaring temperatures pushed blazes in the south, with more extreme heat expected soon.

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Weeks of dry weather and soaring temperatures pushed blazes in the south, with more extreme heat expected soon.

As water service costs climb, regulators and utilities face a pricing, politics, and operations reckoning.

The BBC reports Shabir Ahmed is out after a 22-year jail term imposed in August 2012, raising renewed pressure on sentencing and safeguarding.

The novelist, speaking at Porto's BABELL, links survival and censorship to why fiction is still society's safest weapon.
A shift in NATO’s Eastern flank meets a painful historical echo, with real implications for budgets, suppliers, and policy.

A second breach claim around a Homeland Security intelligence-sharing network raises immediate questions for how sensitive data is governed.

The former chief of staff argues Labour lacked a plan to deliver change fast, even as the world got harder.

A Turkish stand-up comedian was detained on return, raising fresh questions about how speech becomes risk at home.

In his first-ever BBC interview, the PM's former top aide says the party failed to move quickly in office.

A convicted people smuggler allegedly living under a new name in the UK raises urgent questions about asylum enforcement and detention.

Charlotte Slente says the health emergency risks swallowing already-strained humanitarian resources in DR Congo.

Senegal’s star creator chooses French to scale beyond Wolof, turning short-form humor into Francophone influence.