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Three specially chartered planes have now returned 1,000 migrants from Belarus to Iraq. The majority of those returned were Iraqi and Syrian Kurds and Yazidis,… Read More »The migrants returned to Iraqi camps from Belarus
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Almost 300 people, including women and children, have been rescued from a migrant boat off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Video filmed by the Italian… Read More »Dramatic rescue of 300 from migrant boat in Italy
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Lord of The Rings director, Peter Jackson, has restored more than 50 hours of outtakes from the 1970 Beatles documentary Let It Be. The documentary… Read More »Beatles outtakes in new Peter Jackson film
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BBC reporter Yalda Hakim visits Kabul to look at four key areas of concern in Afghanistan.