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| Hello. Nato members have agreed to spend 5% of GDP on defence by 2035, and while this was the big announcement of the summit, comments about US President Donald Trump by the alliance's chief was one of the big talking points. In Colombia, a woman tells the BBC how she was recruited for sexcam work at 17 and encouraged to livestream from school. And finally, take a look at a newly discovered dinosaur which is about to go on display in London. | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Five takeaways from Nato's big summit on hiking defence spending |
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| | The Spanish prime minister (far right of image) appeared to stand by himself in the Nato 'family photo'. Credit: AFP | Nato members have made the momentous decision to commit to raising defence spending to levels not seen since the Cold War. At the annual summit, world leaders agreed to spend 5% of their GDP on defence within the next decade, a remarkable jump from the current target of 2%, which not all members hit in 2024. Yet this wasn't the only headline-making moment from the summit. There was also a surprising exchange between the alliance's chief and the US president, in which he referred to Donald Trump as "daddy", the reaffirming of Article 5, Spain's PM appearing slightly distanced from the other world leaders, and nuanced discussion of Russia. |
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| Images reveal new damage signs at Iran nuclear sites | Signs of damage to access routes and tunnels at Iran's underground Fordo enrichment facility can be seen. | Take a look > |
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| 'Eight killed as Kenyan protesters battle police' | Some 400 people have also been hurt, a rights group says, as police and protesters engaged in running battles across Kenya. | More on this > |
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| Eurostar passengers hit by second day of delays | Stolen cables disrupted services on Wednesday, while on Tuesday, there were two separate deaths on the line. | What happened > |
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| Deadly airbag fault sees France recall 2.5m cars | The defective airbags can explode on impact, throwing shrapnel into the driver's face, and have caused a series of deaths. | Read more > |
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| Sexcam industry recruited us while we were schoolgirls, say models | | Keiny, now 20, started working as a webcam model when she was 17. Credit: Jorge Calle/BBC | The global sexcam industry is booming. Each month, webcam platforms get almost 1.3bn views. Colombia is a key source of content, with an estimated 400,000 models living there - more than any other nation. Models say some of the country's 12,000 studios are well run, but that abuse is rife at others, where people are lured in with the promise of making money. That can be hard to ignore in a country where a third of the population lives in poverty. |
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| | Sofia Bettiza, global health reporter |
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| | One afternoon, as Isabella left school, someone thrust a leaflet into her hand. "Do you want to make money with your beauty?" it asked. She says a studio looking for models seemed to be targeting pupils in her area in Bogotá, Colombia's capital. At 17, with a two-year-old son to support, she desperately needed money, and so went along to find out more. She says when she got there, it was a sexcam studio, run by a couple in a house in a run-down neighbourhood - it had eight rooms decorated like bedrooms.
The next day, Isabella says she started work - even though it is illegal in Colombia for studios to employ webcam models under 18. Isabella says the studio soon suggested she do a livestream from school, so as classmates around her were learning English, she quietly took out her phone and started to film herself at her desk. She describes how viewers began to ask her to perform specific sexual acts, so she went to the toilet and did what the customers had requested. "I started doing it from other classes", says Isabella. "I kept thinking, 'It's for my child. I'm doing it for him.' That gave me the strength." |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | When originality flops | Original family cartoons like Pixar's Elio have reported poor box office sales. | |
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And finally... | London's Natural History Museum is welcoming a new dinosaur for the first time in more than a decade. The labrador-sized dinosaur was wrongly categorised as a Nanosaurus when it was found, but now scientists have discovered it's actually a new species. Its new name is Enigmacursor - meaning puzzling runner. Take a look. | |
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