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US President Joe Biden has been interviewed as part of a probe into his handling of classified documents after he left the vice-presidency in 2017. Mr Biden met voluntarily with Special Counsel Robert Hur at the White House over two days, officials said. Mr Hur was appointed after a separate investigation was launched into secret documents found at Donald Trump’s home. Mr Biden has not been charged with any crime. It is not unusual for presidents to be interviewed by investigators. Ian Sams, a spokesman for Mr Biden, said in a statement that the interview was conducted over the course…

At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in an artillery strike on a camp for displaced people in Myanmar. The camp is located close to a military camp of Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an insurgent group fighting the country’s ruling military Junta. A spokesman for the KIA told the BBC that all the victims were civilians. Myanmar has been embroiled in conflict since a 2021 military coup displaced the country’s government. The exiled National Unity Government (NUG), has blamed the Junta for the attack on the camp, describing it as a “war crime and crime against humanity”. The…

Twelve Thais have been killed and another 11 kidnapped by Palestinian Hamas militants who launched a mass assault from Gaza on Israel. Another eight Thai nationals have been injured in the violence since Saturday, said Thailand’s foreign ministry. It said air force planes were on standby to fly its citizens home. There are some 30,000 Thais in Israel working in agriculture, many near the Gaza border. Nepal said 10 of its citizens had been killed. Other countries which have reported citizens killed, abducted or missing in the violence in Israel include the US, UK and Germany. Thailand’s labour minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn told…

Hip-hop can seem like a man’s world, but women have been there from the start. The infamous Bronx party that gave birth to the genre was organised by Cindy Campbell, a high school student who was trying to raise money for her back-to-school clothes. It was Cindy who wrote invitations on index cards and invited her brother Clive, aka DJ Kool Herc, to play the music. Before long, former R&B singer Sylvia Robinson co-founded the world’s first hip-hop label, Sugar Hill Records. Alongside landmark singles like Rapper’s Delight, she also released one of the first all-female rap records, Funk You…

More than 2.5 million people watched 16 contestants enter the Big Brother house as the reality show returned to British TV for the first time in five years. The series has moved to ITV, and the new crop of housemates immediately took part in a “housewarming party” with games that had unexpected consequences. Jenkin, 25, had his suitcase blown up and lost access to hot water for a day. The launch got a mixed reaction – the Telegraph called it “fun” but the Times said it felt “like a Noughties fossil”. AJ Odudu and Will Best are the new hosts,…

Major airlines around the world have cancelled flights to Israel or warned of travel disruption as the security situation deteriorates. Three US carriers, as well as Air France, Lufthansa and Emirates, have suspended services to Tel Aviv. Virgin Atlantic warned of cancellations and delays from Heathrow, and British Airways has altered its schedule. It comes as Palestinian militants Hamas said they had targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion airport with missiles on Monday. About 700 people have been killed in Israel since Hamas launched its attack on Saturday, with a further 500 having died in Gaza in retaliatory air strikes. Virgin Atlantic…

Coins found under a fireplace may have been hidden there by a victim of the infamous Massacre of Glencoe, according to archaeologists. Almost 40 members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed in February 1692 after soldiers were ordered to attack them. A student discovered the money at the site of a house linked to the clan’s chief. Lucy Ankers was on her first dig when she made the find. The 36 coins were inside a pot which had a small round pebble as a lid and had been placed beneath a hearth stone slab in the fireplace. The discovery…

The UK and Republic of Ireland are set to be announced as hosts of the 2028 European Championships at a Uefa meeting in Switzerland on Tuesday. The five-nation bid is now running unopposed after Turkey withdrew from the process last week. Turkey merged their Euro 2032 bid with Italy in July and are set to be confirmed as joint-hosts for that tournament. Both bids are running unopposed but still need official approval by Uefa. “These are exciting times and we have a very compelling Euro 2028 proposal for Uefa,” said last week’s joint statement from the five national associations of England, Scotland,…

At least 23 people have been killed in landslides caused by heavy rains in Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé, the emergency services have said. A local radio station put the death toll at 40, saying that many people are still missing. Rescue efforts were hampered by floods, forcing locals to pull bodies out of the debris with their bare hands. Heavy rainfall caused the Mefou River to burst its banks on Sunday, submerging several neighbourhoods. The disaster comes almost a year after at least 14 people died in another landslide in the city. The poor neighbourhood of Mbankolo was worst affected in…

Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer raised serious concerns in government in 2019 over the decision to close an investigation into UK special forces. The BBC understands that Mr Mercer wrote to then-defence secretary Ben Wallace to warn against the closure. The veterans minister, a former British army officer, was privately concerned that there were credible war crimes allegations against British forces. When the closure was later announced, Mr Mercer publicly backed the decision. The investigation, known as Operation Northmoor, had set out in 2014 to investigate a total of 675 allegations of wrongdoing by UK armed forces in Afghanistan. They included…