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A near-death experience motivates @Edurne_Pasaban to set herself the challenge of becoming the first woman to scale the highest peaks on Earth. But she is not alone in wanting to make history. Join @jojolly and Kathy Karlo on Amazing Sport Stories

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Star Wars fans, #Maythe4th be with you, will recognise the lightsaber as the fictional luminous sword in the films – but did you know that lightsaber duelling is an official sport in France? @Anxifera is a competitor and an ambassador for the sport 🎧

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Italy bans yoga classes with puppies over concerns for the welfare of the animals

Newshour - Italy bans puppy yoga - BBC Sounds

The trend, popular on social media, has prompted concerns from animal welfare charities

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In Dongguan in southern China, manufacturing has changed. Millions of workers travelled from rural areas to find jobs but as factories move from mass-produced goods to hi-tech products, many of the workforce have been left behind. @BBCLBicker investigates

From Our Own Correspondent - China's factories change gear - BBC Sounds

Dongguang looks different as firms shift to hi-tech products and workers must reskill.

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An orangutan in Indonesia has healed a wound on his face by self-medicating using a paste made from plants. It's the first time a creature in the wild has been recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant. More amazing animals:

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🔴 Canadian police arrest three Indian nationals over the killing of Sikh activist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar 🔴 Kenya's president warns citizens that a cyclone may be heading towards coastal areas 🔴 And Spain abolishes a national bullfighting prize

Global News Podcast - Three people are arrested over Sikh activist's killing in Canada - BBC Sounds

Police say they've been charged in connection with the death of Hardeep Singh Nijjar

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"I don't speak French at all... I just gestured with my hands... and we exchanged flags." In 1990, the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France was finally connected. Graham Fagg, one of the tunnel workers, remembers the moment they broke through

Witness History - The Channel Tunnel breakthrough - BBC Sounds

In 1990, the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France was connected

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"How can you be free if you cannot go back to your own country?" These exiled BBC World Service journalists share their personal stories about what it's like to leave family and friends behind. #WorldPressFreedomDay Watch our documentaries on YouTube:

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Has Argentina's president Javier Milei fixed the country's inflation problem? @tomcolls speaks to economist @bollemdb

More or Less - Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem? - BBC Sounds

What falling inflation means for Milei’s austerity plan and economic “shock” measures

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“A novel… is the only place, I think, in the human world, where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy” – Paul Auster The great American writer, who died this week, on the enduring power and beauty of literature Listen again here

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Researchers have been re-assessing their understanding of Neanderthals thanks to the reconstruction of remains found in a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan. Dr Emma Pomeroy explains what the discovery can tell us about Neanderthal life

Newsday - Reconstructed Neanderthal woman gives clues to our past - BBC Sounds

Researchers have been re-assessing their understanding of Neanderthals

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"It will allow people to come forward to tell their story," says actress Judith Godrèche, after the French National Assembly voted in favour of setting up a commission to investigate sexual abuse in the country's film industry

Newshour - A victory for France's Me Too movement - BBC Sounds

French commission to investigate sexual abuse in film industry

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In 1961, American psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial study to find out if people were capable of committing evil acts. Experiments involving fake electric shocks as punishment were later criticised for breaking ethical guidelines

Witness History - How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world - BBC Sounds

The study aimed to test whether 'ordinary' people were capable of committing evil acts

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Why have pigeons got such a bad reputation? Pigeons are often called "rats with wings" and blamed for spreading diseases - but it hasn't always been this way. Watch more fascinating bird facts on YouTube:

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Zimbabwe has just rolled out its sixth currency since 2009. The Zimbabwe Gold, or ZiG, is backed by the country's gold reserves and has been introduced to try and control soaring inflation in the country. But can the currency remain stable? 🎧

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The fates of thousands of people who "disappeared" under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay are unknown. Rogelio Goiburu has dedicated his life to finding the remains of those who went missing, including his own father

Witness History - Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay - BBC Sounds

One man has dedicated his life to finding the victims of Paraguay's dictatorship

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Police have cleared pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University in New York. Before the raid, Newsday spoke to students about their aims 🎧

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Why is Sweden home to so many billionaires? Sweden has a reputation for high taxes and social equality, but it has more dollar billionaires, relative to its population, than almost anywhere else. 🎧 @maddysavage meets some of the country's super-rich:

The Documentary - Super-rich Swedes - BBC Sounds

Why is Sweden home to so many dollar billionaires?

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🌎 Flooding, heatwaves, droughts… When it comes to extreme weather events, how do we know what’s been caused by man-made climate change and what has not? 🎧 @GraihaghJackson investigates the new field of climate attribution science:

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"I sometimes miss my dog more than my husband." South African canoeist Esti Olivier tells @carolinebarker about her mental health challenges and how she qualified for the Paris Olympics with just a little help from her dog, Sullivan 🐶 🎧

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The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has opened with the Arabic libretto written by Saudi poet Saleh Zamanan. The music is by Australian Lee Bradshaw who says the audience "never expected to hear their language sung operatically".

Newsday - Saudi Arabia stages its first grand opera - BBC Sounds

Zarqa Al Yamama has a female character at its centre, and is sung in Arabic

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