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A girl called Àìná was captured by an African king and later taken to England to become Sarah Forbes Bonetta, protege of the imperial monarch When she was seven years old, Bayo Randle’s great-great-grandmother Sarah Forbes Bonetta was presented to Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle as a “diplomatic gift” from an African king. Victoria would go on to pay for Bonetta’s education, approve her marriage to one of west Africa’s.

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BBC News hears from users, dealers, prison and recovery workers as the country battles with a deadly new drug epidemic. The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville joins officers at Cook County as they carry out an early morning raid Warning: This story contains descriptions of drug-taking from the start and discusses suicide The few grains of fentanyl sit in the silver foil as a straw, held between Mike's lips, hovers above a.

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Defence Minister David McGuinty says there are casualties in what the prime minister called a "serious incident". The Canadian Armed Forces were working with local authorities to manage the fire and were looking into what caused it, David McGuinty said, describing the situation as "very, very active and delicate". Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on X that a "serious incident creating a major fire" had occurred, adding his "thoughts.

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There were violent clashes between demonstrators and riot police throughout Saturday in the capital Tirana. Watch: The BBC reports from Tirana, where violent protests grew on Saturday Demonstrators and riot police fought pitched battles in the centre of Tirana on Saturday for the fifth day in a row. Masked protesters, many of them high school and university students, hurled rocks and petrol bombs at riot police trying to defend the.

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Disorder broke out in cities across the country on a day in which more than half a million joined cost of living protests. At least 400 people were arrested during what the French government described as an "escalation in violence" alongside an estimated 550,000 taking to the streets. In Paris, there were significant clashes into the evening with riot police, who used tear gas and water cannon on crowds. Buildings.

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Many more have been injured at an event in the Indian city of Kolkata to mark a Hindu festival. Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesByGeorge WrightPublished1 hour agoAt least 17 people have been killed and many more injured in a crush at an event in the Indian city of Kolkata to mark the Hindu festival of Durga Puja, officials say. The incident occurred during sudden rainfall, which witnesses say prompted.