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Restoring faith to Japan's sad forestRestoring faith to Japan's sad forest
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Pulwama attack: Google searches 'hijacked' to link Pakistan flag to toilet paperPulwama attack: Google searches 'hijacked' to link Pakistan flag to toilet paper
Image caption An image search for "best toilet paper" returns a page filled with news story images of Pakistan's flag

Google searches for "best toilet paper in the world" appear to have been manipulated to return images of the Pakistan national flag.

The results are believed to be the work of protesters acting in

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Yazidi father tells of his agony over wife and three children kidnapped by Isil
Khudida Haji has followed news of the battle for the caliphate's final stronghold more closely than most. For four and-a-half years, he has been hoping for information on family members captured by the jihadists. Out of the five that went missing the day Isil overran the Yazidi homeland of Sinjar, northern Iraq, in 2014, only one returned.
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Wedded to barbarity
Widowed, homeless, having already lost two young children and utterly alone save for the unborn baby she is soon to give birth to in a Syrian detention camp. So one might expect to detect a note of contrition in the east London accent of teen jihadi bride Shamima Begum.
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'Why have an army we don't dare use'
A senior French officer involved in the fight against the co-called Islamic State terror group in Syria faces punishment - from his own side - after launching a scathing attack on the tactics used by the US-led coalition to defeat Isil in its remaining stronghold of Hajin, a French army spokesman said yesterday.
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Huawei risk can be managed, say UK cyber-security chiefsHuawei risk can be managed, say UK cyber-security chiefs
Image copyrightReutersImage caption Huawei has said it is independent and gives nothing to Beijing, aside from taxes

Any risk posed by involving the Chinese technology giant Huawei in UK telecoms projects can be managed, cyber-security chiefs have determined.

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre's decision

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