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Ten years ago, the arrest of hundreds of Chinese human rights lawyers began in a nationwide crackdown, known as the 709 incident.

At least 10 were convicted of crimes such as “subversion of state power” and given jail terms, while dozens more have been subjected to surveillance, harassment and the revocation of their professional licences in the years since.

The lawyers have long been a target of China's communist party. One of those lawyers was Wang Quanzhang, who was detained for more than four years.

A decade later, he still faces daily harassment on the streets of Beijing.

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The son of a British couple detained in Iran has said he broke down in tears when he learned of their arrest and has not heard from them in six months.

Craig and Lindsay Foreman were on a "once-in-a-lifetime" motorbike trip around the world when they were arrested in January and later charged with espionage, which the family denies.

Their son Joe Bennett told the BBC: "I want to be crystal clear, my parents aren't spies, they're not political players, they aren't criminals. They're Mum and Dad."

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said it was continuing to assist the family and raise the case directly with Iranian authorities.

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China has a tight grip on the supply of rare earth minerals used in everyday products like smartphones and TV screens.

But the BBC has discovered that Beijing's dominance of the market comes at a huge environmental cost.

The BBC's Laura Bicker has travelled to two of the country's largest mining zones where polluted water and contaminated soils are the toxic legacies of mineral mining.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine has been hit by the biggest ever aerial attack from Russia.

Zelensky condemned the "telling attack", adding: "It comes precisely at a time when so many efforts have been made to achieve peace, to establish a ceasefire, and yet only Russia continues to rebuff them all."

The overnight strike came after President Donald Trump said the US would send more weapons to Kyiv - a reversal of last week's suspension which US media said Trump had not known about.

On Tuesday, the US leader expressed growing frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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A deadly crackdown on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye.

In the audio, which was leaked online in March, Hasina says she authorised her security forces to "use lethal weapons" against protesters and that "wherever they find [them], they will shoot".

Prosecutors in Bangladesh plan to use the recording as crucial evidence against Hasina, who is being tried in absentia at a special tribunal for crimes against humanity.

Up to 1,400 people died in last summer's unrest, according to UN investigators.

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Up to 20 people, including at least six children, have been killed in two Israeli airstrikes overnight in Gaza, Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency has said.

Ten members of the same family were killed during the first airstrike, as they were sheltering in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis. A second airstrike on the Al-Shati camp near Gaza City, also left more than 30 wounded, the civil defence agency’s spokesperson said.

It comes as US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the second time to discuss the ongoing war in Gaza.

Before discussions resumed on Tuesday, a Palestinian source familiar with the talks told the BBC they have not made any headway.

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The death toll from flash floods that struck central Texas on Friday has now climbed to at least 107 people and an unknown number of others are missing.

Search and rescue teams are wading through mud-piled riverbanks as more rain and thunderstorms threaten the region, but hope was fading of finding any more survivors four days after the catastrophe.

Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls' summer camp, confirmed at least 27 girls and staff were among the dead. Five campers and one adult are still missing.

The White House meanwhile rejected suggestions that budget cuts at the National Weather Service could have inhibited the disaster response.

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Pro Skater Tony Hawk said "never say never" about coming out of retirement for the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.

In an interview with BBC News, he explained how he'd be more than happy to be involved at the Olympic Games in a few years time, and that he'd have a halfpipe in the skateboarding competition if he had his way.

He also explained the music choices for the remasters, and explained why Alien Ant Farm were snubbed from the game - and how he finally managed to get Bam Margera included.

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Israel's defence minister says he has instructed its military to prepare a plan to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp in the south of the territory, Israeli media reports say.

Israel Katz told journalists on Monday he wanted to establish a "humanitarian city" on the ruins of the city of Rafah to initially house about 600,000 Palestinians - and eventually the whole 2.1 million population.

He said the goal was to bring people inside after security screening to ensure they were not Hamas operatives, and that they would not be allowed to leave.

If conditions allowed, he added, construction would begin during a 60-day ceasefire that Israel and Hamas are trying to negotiate.

The UN has previously warned that the deportation or forcible transfer of an occupied territory's civilian population is strictly prohibited under international humanitarian law and "tantamount to ethnic cleansing".

There was no immediate comment from the Palestinian Authority or Hamas.

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The Esports World Cup has kicked off in Saudi Arabia with teams from around the world battling to win the biggest prizes in the industry.

Ahead of the event, we caught up with Team Liquid's Levi de Weerd, who will be representing them by playing EA FC on the world's stage in Riyadh with a prize pot of $27m up for grabs for the best performing teams at the event.

He explains how their coaching set-up in the Netherlands has prepared him and his Team Liquid team-mates for the tournament.

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