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| Hello. We're opening this last newsletter of the week with some breaking news from the US presidential campaign, where independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he is suspending his campaign and supporting Donald Trump. In Jerusalem, Yolande Knell writes on the first case of polio identified in the Gaza Strip in 25 years. My colleagues are also reporting from Kyiv, Nigeria, and the Isle of Man. | |
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| A first case of polio in 25 years | | A Palestinian girl is examined by a doctor after the first case in 25 years was confirmed. Credit: Reuters | A 10-month-old baby has been partially paralysed after contracting polio in Gaza, United Nations officials have said. It's the first case registered in the territory since 25 years, according to the UN. |
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| | Yolande Knell, Middle East correspondent, with Lucy Clarke-Billings |
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| | The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he is "gravely concerned" and confirmed that efforts are under way to roll out a vaccination programme in the coming weeks. The 10-month-old, who was unvaccinated, is said to be in a stable condition after developing paralysis in one leg. Poliovirus, most often spread through sewage and contaminated water, is highly infectious. It can cause disfigurement and paralysis, and is potentially fatal. It mainly affects children under the age of five.
Humanitarian groups have blamed the re-emergence of polio in Gaza on disruption to child vaccination programmes and massive damage to water and sanitation systems caused by the war. In order to try to contain the spread, the UN has been pressing for a week-long pause in fighting to carry out a polio vaccination campaign for more than 640,000 children under the age of 10. UN Secretary General António Guterres said "hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza [are] at risk". |
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| 'I never thought I'd return home' | A British-Mexican gay man detained for six months in Qatar over drug charges he denies says his ordeal "could happen to anyone". | Read the interview > |
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| Getting the K-Pop treatment | A British boy band flies to Seoul and faces its cutthroat pop music industry. | Find out more > |
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THE BIG PICTURE | A scam halfway across the world |
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| | | The Seaview Hotel in Douglas, where the Chinese scammers initially worked. Credit: BBC | The Isle of Man, a British Crown Dependency tucked between Ireland and Britain, served as a base for a group of Chinese scammers that ran a investment scheme known as "pig-butchering". Dozens of Chinese workers packed up the dining room and lounge of a Manx hotel and targeted victims in China, a BBC investigation has found. Here's how they did it. |
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FOR YOUR DOWNTIME | Fizzling out? | Tickets for this weekend's Burning Man event in the Nevada desert didn't sell out. | |
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And finally... in Nigeria | A pair of table tennis players are hoping their love story has a golden ending. Kayode and Christiana Alabi met at a national sports camp in 2017 and married two years ago. Now they are preparing to make history as the first African couple to take part in the Paralympics, when the Paris Games begin next week - and are targeting gold. They tell us how they battled adversity to hit the sporting heights. | |
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