Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths

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Exclusive: Exhibition will reveal complex reality, featuring women and artistic creations, beyond armour-clad warriors

A groundbreaking samurai exhibition that promises to challenge “everything we think we know about Japan’s warrior elite” spanning a millennium of myth and reality is to open at the British Museum next year.

Titled Samurai, the blockbuster exhibition will reveal a world beyond armour-clad warriors and epic duels, as popularised by the noble, katana-wielding heroes of Akira Kurosawa’s classic action films and PlayStation’s hit video games.

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Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change

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Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all

About 40% of Australian women without kids say they are hesitant to have children because of climate change, a new survey suggests.

The survey, on attitudes about the impacts of global heating, also found that half of Australians were very or extremely concerned about climate change and two in five believed the climate would be “much hotter” in 2050.

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King Charles III leads Britain’s Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead – AP News

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  1. King Charles III leads Britain’s Remembrance Sunday ceremony for war dead  AP News
  2. King Charles leads Remembrance Sunday service silence at Cenotaph  BBC
  3. Prince William Reunites with Royals as Prince George Marks Major Milestone  People.com
  4. Second world war veterans applauded as king leads Remembrance Sunday tributes  The Guardian
  5. King leads nation in two-minute silence during Remembrance Sunday service at Cenotaph  Sky News
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Escalating crisis in Sudan: Military chief visits displacement camp amid rising atrocities – africanews.com

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  1. Escalating crisis in Sudan: Military chief visits displacement camp amid rising atrocities  africanews.com
  2. Tales of horror emerge from Darfur after rebels take control of key city  abcnews.go.com
  3. World must act now to halt ‘horrific atrocities’ in Sudan, UN says  The Times of Israel
  4. Thousands of Sudanese flee to overcrowded camps after paramilitary captures el-Fasher  CBS News
  5. Sudan medics accuse RSF of burning, burying bodies to conceal ‘genocide’  Al Jazeera
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Powerful earthquake rattles the northern coast of Japan; earlier tsunami advisory lifted – CBS News

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  1. Powerful earthquake rattles the northern coast of Japan; earlier tsunami advisory lifted  CBS News
  2. Tsunami advisory issued as strong earthquake strikes off Japanese coast  abcnews.go.com
  3. Japan’s Northeast Coast Hit by Series of Quakes, No Major Outage  Bloomberg.com
  4. Dozens of Earthquakes Rattle Japan After Tsunami Warning Canceled  Newsweek
  5. Powerful earthquake rattles northern Japan, tsunami advisory lifted after 3 hours  NBC News
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Water levels below 3% in dam reservoirs for Iran’s second city, say reports

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Storage dwindles in Mashhad, home to 4 million people, as country struggles with drought

Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran’s north-eastern city of Mashhad have plunged below 3%, according to reports, as the country suffers from severe water shortages.

“The water storage in Mashhad’s dams has now fallen to less than 3%,” Hossein Esmaeilian, the chief executive of the water company in Iran’s second largest city by population, told the ISNA news agency.

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Britain sends RAF specialists to help Belgium combat disruptive drones

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Incursions halted flights at Brussels and Liège airports last week with Russia said to be the most likely culprit

Britain is deploying Royal Air Force specialists to help Belgium counter drone threats to the country’s airports after disruptive sightings last week that some politicians blamed on Russia.

Sir Richard Knighton, the head of the UK’s armed forces, said the British military would provide “our people, our equipment” to help Belgium, though he was careful to say “we don’t yet know” the origin of the drones seen last week.

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Powerful quake strikes off the coast of Japan, tsunami advisory lifted after 3 hours – AP News

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  1. Powerful quake strikes off the coast of Japan, tsunami advisory lifted after 3 hours  AP News
  2. Powerful earthquake rattles the northern coast of Japan; earlier tsunami advisory lifted  CBS News
  3. Tsunami advisory issued as strong earthquake strikes off Japanese coast  abcnews.go.com
  4. Dozens of Earthquakes Rattle Japan After Tsunami Warning Canceled  Newsweek
  5. Strong 6.9-magnitude quake hits Japan, tsunami advisory cancelled  Euronews.com
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