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The UK’s National Screening Committee advised against routine prostate cancer screening for the majority of men.

Health secretary, Wes Streeting, said he'll "examine the evidence" and will take into account different views on screening ahead of a decision in March.

Mass testing could cause more harm than good - even for those at high risk, including black men and those with a family history, according to the expert committee.

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Breast cancer patients suffered unnecessary mastectomies, delayed diagnoses and a lack of compassionate care at an NHS Trust in north-east England, the BBC has learned.

More than 200 cases are now being investigated at County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust (CDDFT) - 43 of these are reported to involve significant harm. One death is also being examined.

Women have told us they were left feeling "butchered" by surgery, while a leading expert says that what went on at the trust was "a textbook example of how not to carry out breast cancer management".

CDDFT has apologised to "women and their families who have been harmed because of our substandard care", and it admits that "over many years, warning signs were repeatedly missed or not acted upon".

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Will Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky stay in power? What is the situation in the Crimea? These are just some of the questions being asked around the Ukraine War peace talks being lead by the US.

President Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his core demands for ending the war in Ukraine, saying Russia will lay down arms only if Kyiv's troops withdraw from territory claimed by Moscow.

With your questions asking, what will happen to the residents in those territories.

Correspondents from BBC News and the World Service join Catherine Byaruhanga.

The questions are from BBC viewers from the UK and from the BBCs Ukraine and Russia services.

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More than 90 people have died and dozens more are still missing after devastating floods hit Indonesia.

An exceptionally rare cyclone has brought unusually heavy rains to Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra causing landslides in some areas.

South East Asia as a whole is facing some of the worst floods the region has seen in years, which have affected millions of people across Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia.

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At least 128 people are now known to have died after a fire ripped through a high-rise Hong Kong residential estate on Wednesday, authorities say.

At a news briefing officials said that 79 people were injured and 16 bodies remain inside the buildings. Dozens of people are still missing.

Fire alarms in all eight blocks were also found to be not working effectively, the fire service says.

Experts told the BBC that bamboo scaffolding, along with other construction materials found at the buildings - which were undergoing renovation - might have contributed to the rapid spread of the fire.

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Today, Adam is joined by Claer Barrett, Consumer Editor at the Financial Times and Helen Miller, Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies to unpack how the budget will you.

The Prime Minister Keir Starmer defended the government's tax-raising budget, saying it will help lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty - with the IFS saying households face a ‘truly dismal’ rise in their spending power.

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President Vladimir Putin has doubled down on his core demands for ending the war in Ukraine, stating that Russia will lay down arms only if Kyiv's troops withdraw from territory claimed by Moscow.

Putin has long pushed for legal recognition of the Ukrainian territories Russia has seized by force.

They include the Crimean peninsula, which it illegally annexed in 2014, and the Donbas, made up of Luhansk and Donetsk, which Moscow now occupies for the most part.

For Kyiv, which has ruled out relinquishing the parts of the Donbas it still holds, rewarding Russia for its aggression is a non-starter.

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Firefighters search for missing after Hong Kong tower blocks fire | BBC News

Firefighters are still searching for hundreds of missing people after a massive fire tore through multiple high-rise residential buildings in Hong Kong.

At least 83 people are now known to have died in the blaze at Wang Fuk Court's complex, which is home to thousands.

The tower blocks had been undergoing extensive renovations - and while the exact cause for the fire is unclear, police say materials on the outside of the buildings may have facilitated its spread.

Three construction firm executives have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and gross negligence.

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A year into a ceasefire which ended the latest war between Israel and Hezbollah, the Israeli military is continuing to carry out drone attacks on Lebanon.

Israel says it is striking targets linked to Hezbollah, which it claims is violating the ceasefire by rebuilding its military capabilities.

BBC Middle East correspondent Hugo Bachega has been telling the Global News Podcast about his visit to the communities of southern Lebanon, where people live in constant fear of attack.

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The Afghan suspect in the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington DC previously worked with the CIA in Afghanistan, the CIA director has said.

The injured soldiers, 24-year-old Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom, 20, have come through surgery, but remain in a critical condition.

US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, drove thousands of miles across the country from Washington state before the attack on Wednesday.

Lakanwal was shot by another soldier during the incident and was taken to hospital. US President Donald Trump said he was "severely wounded".

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