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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was a view of the Kaihu River feeding into the Northern Wairoa River at high tide just across the

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was a view of the countryside between Utsunomiya and Sendai, Japan. Taken from the Shinkansen. ** We need more photos

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was a view of the Naruto Whirlpools from a window in the pedestrian walkway and observation deck of the

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was a view from Yering Station Winery. Yarra Valley. Victoria. Australia. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab

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What These Two Scandals Have in Common
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What These Two Scandals Have in Common

Mr Bates vs The Post Office has been labelled the greatest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Hundreds of innocent Sub-Post Masters were wrongly accused of theft, fraud, and false accounting due to a defective state-owned IT system. The four-part British television drama series was screened on ITV (UK)

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Waiting for Hamas: Hostage Deal in the Balance

Waiting for Hamas: Hostage Deal in the Balance

BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Mixed reports are emerging from Cairo about the prospects of an agreement on a hostage release/prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. * An unnamed Israeli official told Channel

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was of the view from the Taylor River walkway taken under the Alfred Street bridge while looking towards the

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Israel Withdraws Most of Its Troops From the Gaza Strip

Israel Withdraws Most of Its Troops From the Gaza Strip

BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Coinciding with the six month anniversary since the October 7th Hamas massacre, the IDF has pulled most of its forces out of the southern Gaza Strip. * A single IDF

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was of the Gundam robot at Yokohama Port, taken from the bridge of the Hikawa Maru. ** We need more

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was a view of Lake Tarawera. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or mobile phone

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The BFD World News Quiz

The BFD World News Quiz

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Undersea Cables Are the Unseen Backbone of the Global Internet

Robin Chataut Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity and Computer Science, Quinnipiac University Have you ever wondered how an email sent from New York arrives in Sydney in mere seconds, or how you can video chat with someone on the other side of the globe with barely a hint of delay? Behind

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was the view looking North from Cambridge, New Zealand. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was the view from the Bridge of the Hikawa Maru (93-year-old historic ship, open to tourists) looking out to

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was of Ponsonby Rugby Club, looking over their ground at Western Springs Stadium. ** We need more photos please folks,

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? Yesterday’s photo was of Bulls Primary School. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or mobile phone and

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