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| Hello. US President Donald Trump has ordered the declassification of files relating to the assassinations of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr, promising that "everything will be revealed". In the Middle East, a BBC investigation has found that mainly civilians were killed in a deadly Israeli airstrike on an apartment block in Lebanon. We also bring you a multi-billion dollar payout over the powerful painkiller OxyContin, the latest from a catastrophic oil spill in the Kerch Strait, and find out why the singer Adele has been accused of thwarting the sale of a "haunted" mansion in England. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Trump orders release of assassination files |
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|  | President John F Kennedy was killed while driving through Dallas in 1963. Credit: Getty Images | Unanswered questions and conspiracy theories have long dogged three of the most consequential assassinations in US history - the murders of former president John F Kennedy, his brother and presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy, and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Now, new US President Donald Trump has said that "everything will be revealed" after he ordered officials to make plans to declassify thousands of documents relating to the deaths. That does not make it certain it will happen, however. JFK was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, a Marine veteran who had defected to the Soviet Union and later returned to the United States. He was found to have acted alone, but opinion polls indicate that most Americans don't believe he did. Some family members of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F Kennedy – including RFK’s son and Trump’s nominee for health secretary – believe questions remain over their deaths. |
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| | | - JFK assassination: The former president's assassination has been mired in controversy and conspiracy since it happened. The BBC explores how it continues to live on in popular culture.
- New detail: The memoir of a former secret service agent, published in 2023, complicates the theory of a single bullet hitting both JFK and Texas Governor John Connally Jr.
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| How Southport attack unfolded, told by survivors | Those at the dance class say Rudakubana was purposeful and calm, as he began to attack the young girls. | Read their stories > |
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| Kerch Strait oil spill is 'catastrophe' for Russia | Oil has leaked into the strait separating the Sea of Azov and Black Sea after two ships ran into trouble in bad weather. | Read more > |
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| Sackler family agree $6.5bn opioid settlement | Purdue Pharma will pay a further $900m to settle claims regarding powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin. | More on this > |
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| Captain Cook statue vandalised | The Sydney statue was targeted ahead of the national holiday Australia Day, and for the second time in a year. | Read more > |
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| Injured Djokovic booed off after quitting semi-final | The 37-year-old was bidding for an 11th Australian Open win, but said a muscle tear in his leg meant he had to pull out. | What happened > |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | IDF said bombed apartments were Hezbollah base - but most of dead were civilians |
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| |  | Ashraf persuaded his sister Julia to join him in the family apartment, which he believed was safe from IDF strikes. Credit: BBC | In September, an Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in the sleepy village of Ain El Delb in southern Lebanon, killing 73 people. Israel told the BBC that the building had been a Hezbollah command centre, but our investigation has found that only six of the 68 dead that we have been able to verify were linked to Hezbollah's military wing. The remaining 62 were civilians, 23 of whom were children. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Tips for winter exercise | Experts give their advice on motivating yourself when it's cold and dark outside. | |
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And finally... in the UK | The prospective sellers of a £6m ($7.4m) mansion in the UK have accused Adele of sabotaging the sale of a house she once lived in, claiming she said it was haunted. According to planning permission documents, the owners have been trying to sell the building for 14 years but the singer "blighted the property by saying it is haunted". Hello from the other side indeed. | |
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