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Ashutosh Ranka/XCJP members were detained after they managed to “sneak” into Jantar Mantar on Tuesday morningLeaders of India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) were detained early on Tuesday after they entered a heavily-guarded protest site and chanted slogans demanding the country’s election chief resign over a controversial revision of electoral rolls.Party founder Abhijeet Dipke shared a video showing Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das being taken away by police from Jantar Mantar, a historic Delhi observatory popular for protests.Footage showed the two – along with others – climbing over police barricades before chanting slogans while holding the Indian flag.Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s…
ReutersFive crew members on the Ukrainian-registered merchant ship suffered minor injuries in Tuesday’s attacksBulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has summoned the Russian ambassador after two merchant ships were struck by drones off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast.Eleven crew members are missing and one sailor was saved, according to local officials, after one of the vessels sank 17 nautical miles (31km) east of the village of Krapets.The other vessel, Ukrainian owned, was hit by drones 18 nautical miles from the town of Byala and all 15 crew were rescued.The attacks come a week after two other commercial ships were hit by sea…
Listen: Emergency calls from botched Christa Pike execution released to US mediaEmergency call records have revealed the confusion that developed among prison staff and emergency call handlers after the execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike went wrong last month in Tennessee.Pike, 50, who killed Colleen Slemmer alongside her then-boyfriend in 1995, was given two doses of lethal injection on 30 September. Once it became clear that she was not going to die from the dosage, she was taken to hospital.The confusion resulted in part from an apparent disconnect between prison staff, according to the AP news agency, which first obtained…
BBCAmericans head to the polls on 3 November to decide how the rest of Donald Trump’s presidency will play out.Thousands of races are taking place across the US, at different levels of government. But the main event for voters will be electing members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the two chambers that make up Congress.Both of them are currently controlled by the Republicans, the president’s party. The success or failure of Trump’s final two years in office could rest on the outcome.Here’s our visual guide to where the battle for power will be won and lost -…
Emergency calls from botched Christa Pike execution released to US mediaA series of calls, obtained by the Associated Press, reveal emergency services were delayed in reaching Pike.17 mins agoUS & Canada
Eknoor Singh/Getty ImagesEknoor Singh’s successful social media video clips include one of popstar Dua LipaEknoor Singh says he only needs his mobile phone and a decent internet connection to earn more than £120,000 a year.The 22-year-old Londoner is a professional “clipper”. He is paid by clients to make short, vertical videos for social media, in the hope of them going viral.”The more views a clip gets, the more money I make,” he says.The way it typically works is that the client – who could be anyone from a clothing brand to a record label, movie studio, podcaster or influencer -…
Watch: BBC’s Orla Guerin travels with Yemen’s southern national security forces through desert battlefieldIt was a journey at high speed through the desert – in a pick-up truck with armed fighters in the back. We were travelling with Yemen’s pro-government forces, catching glimpses of the Arabian Sea, and forbidding mountain peaks in the distance. Houthi rebels were dislodged from here just days ago, we were told.When you are battling over expanses of empty desert, progress can be hard to see. But these soldiers, in Shaab-al-Jinn in Lahj governorate, showed us new sandbagged defences – new lines in the sand.”There was…
BBC’s Orla Guerin travels with Yemen’s southern national security forces through desert battlefieldOrla Guerin travelled through Yemen, with forces loyal to its internationally recognised government, to a remote desert battlefield where Houthi rebels were dislodged just days ago.1 hr agoMiddle East
Watch: US man eyes pumpkin world record after fifth contest winHorticulture teacher Travis Gienger hauled his pumpkin from Minnesota to Half Moon Bay, California where he won the annual event.28 mins agoUS & Canada
Watch: Aerial footage shows riders stuck on Six Flags roller coasterOne person has died and several others were injured after an incident on a rollercoaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, an amusement park in the US state of Georgia.The Cobb County Police Department said it was investigating the fatality at the park, about 15 miles (24km) from Atlanta, according to the BBC’s news partner CBS. Police did not specify what ride was involved, but aerial footage from news helicopters showed the Goliath rollercoaster stopped midway, with riders being helped off by workers.Six Flags Over Georgia said it was “deeply saddened…