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26 April 2021

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News imageCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a visit at The Forty Acres in Delano, California

California's governor faces recall election

A campaign for a recall vote grew popular amid criticism of Mr Newsom's handling of the pandemic.

News imageWomen trading in market

The community that trades by barter

This Nigerian community still practices trade by barter, where goods are exchanged instead of money.

News imageA group of dummies set up on the French nuclear weapons testing range near Reggane, Algeria, before France’s third atomic bomb test, 27th December 1960

The lingering fallout from French nuclear tests in Algeria

France says the tests were carried out in uninhabited areas but local residents beg to differ.

News imagePresentational grey line

‘Firefighters don’t look like me’

Uroosa Arshid says she hopes other young Muslim women may feel inspired to follow in her footsteps.

News imageAhmad in army uniform

Former Afghan interpreters fear death after UK exit

Campaigners say many interpreters fired for trivial reasons are being unfairly barred from the UK.

News imageVolkswagen battery recycling

What will happen to all the dead car batteries?

In the next 10 years millions of old electric car batteries will need to be recycled or discarded.

News imageAvani Singh with her grandfather, 94, who is ill with Covid-19 in Delhi

'We called 200 people to find a hospital bed'

Avani Singh was one of thousands of Indians who turned to social media to get help for her family.

News imageSanjeev Gupta, head of the GFG Alliance

Clock ticking on Gupta's fight to save his empire

The government's resolve to save Sanjeev's Gupta's Liberty Steel may soon be tested.

News imageA woman reading

Book sales surge in 2020 as UK rediscovers reading

Sales of fiction, non-fiction and audio books all jumped last year, the industry body says.

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