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North Korea publishes photos of Kim Jong Un - why do rumours of his death keep coming back?

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Kim Jong Un has appeared in North Korean state media looking remarkably healthy for a man rumoured to have died from a brain haemorrhage.

Photographs published by state newspaper Rodong Sinmun show the 42-year-old dictator touring what the paper said was a clothing and footwear exhibition with his daughter.

The images emerged hours after a Chinese dissident who lives in the US claimed, without evidence, that Kim had been taken to a hospital in Beijing in a coma and had died.

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Six years on, France remembers slain teacher Samuel Paty

French schoolteacher Samuel Paty was killed on October 16, 2020 after false rumours circulated about racism following one of his lessons in which cartoons from the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo were shown. For the first time since his murder, journalists from France Télévisions were allowed to film inside the school where he taught in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, near Paris. They met a new generation of young people, who are determined to play their part in the fight against terrorism.

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Zelenskyy says if Trump can't stop Putin, help Ukraine do it

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview published Tuesday that if President Trump "cannot rein Putin in," he should provide long-requested interceptor missiles so Ukraine can defend itself, as the war of words between the two leaders continues to escalate. "If you cannot rein Putin in, then give us interceptor missiles so I can protect our energy infrastructure," Zelenskyy told the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera , referring to Russia's autocratic President Vladimir Putin.

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Kenya cult leader's children still being starved weeks before trial, son says

The eldest son of Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie, convicted of murdering 191 people, says his younger siblings were still being forced to fast as recently as two weeks ago. Dan Mackenzie, 27, said he reported the case to police, who rescued eight children, including his five younger siblings from their grandmother's house, and took them to a rescue centre. "They were basically forcibly fasted because they were denying food to them for almost three days," he tells BBC's Newsday.