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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  School headscarf ban sparks rare protests in Azerbaijan and row with Turkey

  Protests have taken place over the rules which have seen pupils wearing hijabs turned away from schools.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Watch: ‘Cracking’ heard before Pakistan school roof collapse

  Our Urdu correspondent reports from the scene in Peshawar, north west Pakistan, where emergency services have been responding to the incident.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood attacker’s execution by firing squad

  Trump said some would “rather not watch” the killing of Nidal Hasan, the first military execution in over 60 years.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  At least 27 pupils and teacher killed after Pakistan school roof collapses

  Rescue officials fear more people are buried under the debris in the north-western city of Peshawar.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Seven crew missing after drone attack leaves tanker ablaze off Romania’s coast

  A search and rescue operation is under way in the Black Sea after the latest attack in the area.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Obama says drift towards extremism 'not inevitable'

  More than 12,000 people filled a major venue in the city to hear the former US president's take on the challenges the world is facing. .

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Ukraine to restart strikes on Russian oil refineries, Zelensky says

  Russia reports a Ukrainian strike on an oil refinery on Thursday, after Ukraine's president says a pause is over following fresh Russian attacks.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Two dead in Istanbul after heaviest rainfall in 84 years, governor says

  Residents have been told to avoid leaving their homes unless absolutely necessary.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Brazil’s Congress approves shorter working week in win for Lula

  Lula's supporters hope the measure will boost his popularity ahead of a presidential run-off in 10 days.

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• The Markup2026-10-15✓ Read

  Patients: All my best tips on how to opt out of data sharing

  Even when patients are told they can opt out, medical providers often don’t give patients instructions on how. For patients who are interested in opting out, here are my best tips on how to start.

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• The Markup2026-10-15✓ Read

  MyChart and a major hospital said I could opt out of sharing my health data. But they didn’t make it easy

  My journey included a notary, a hospital that won’t honor its own policies and employees that gave me wrong information.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  What’s going on between Kelly Clarkson and a Brooklyn store bird?

  The Since U Been Gone singer claims she was "looked at as if I couldn't afford" an item in the store.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Actor Imran Khan ordered to leave India after participating in protest

  The Bollywood actor had been detained and released while participating in a protest in Mumbai on 10 October.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Indian woman and boyfriend get death sentence in 'blue drum' murder case

  The body was recovered from a large blue plastic storage container - locally called a drum.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  North Korea and China open new bridge after 12-year delay

  China is the North's largest trading partner and a lifeline against the sanctions Pyongyang faces.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Hundreds of IDF investigations into killings without public outcome, BBC Verify finds

  BBC Verify has identified 254 incidents from the past three years the Israeli military said it is reviewing after being accused of harm.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Australian woman charged with lacing colleague’s curry with snail poison

  The alleged victim, who was in a relationship with the woman, had spotted bright green pellets in the meal.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Watch: Orange haze blankets Indonesia’s Kalimantan region

  Thick orange smog descended on the Indonesian city of Palangka Raya as wildfires continue raging nearby.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  White House defends new press secretary Katie Zacharia over her legal credentials

  Katie Zacharia does not appear to be registered to the legal bar in any state where she has lived.

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• BBC News2026-10-15✓ Read

  Retired US generals call on Pentagon to cancel livestream execution

  Livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan "will taint the honor of the military that employs it, and a nation that allows it," 72 former officers said in a letter.

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