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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 ships waiting in Singapore’s harbour. The photo was taken from the LAVO restaurant at the top

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View from Your Window

**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 taken looking east from the car park at Okiwi Bay between Clarence and Kaikoura. ** 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? Easy to miss, but Taihape has a clock tower across from where State Highway 1 makes a dog leg. ** We need more

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The BFD World News Quiz

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How the Baltimore Key Bridge Was Brought Down In Seconds

Dr Mohamed Shaheen Lecturer in Structural Engineering, Loughborough University The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world’s third largest continuous truss bridge fall into the Patapsco

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What Happened, and What Needs To Change

Colin Caprani Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Monash University When the container ship MV Dali, 300 metres long and massing around 100,000 tonnes, lost power and slammed into one of the support piers of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the bridge collapsed in moments. Six people are presumed

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View from Your Window

**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? I spotted another RCR poster. This time on the corner of George St and Henderson Ave, Tuakau, North Waikato. ** We need more

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View from Your Window

**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 is the view from cabin 8 at Alexanders Holiday Park, Picton. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab

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View from Your Window

**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 taken at New Brighton, Christchurch, through a concrete window with a rainbow in the distance. ** We need more

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View from Your Window

**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 St Patrick’s Basilica in Oamaru. ** We need more photos please folks, so grab your camera or

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UNSC Passes Ceasefire Resolution, US Abstains

UNSC Passes Ceasefire Resolution, US Abstains

BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: The US abstained yesterday rather than use its veto on a non-binding UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and a release 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 taken in Playa Estrella, Isla Colon, Bocas del Toro province, Panama. ** We need more photos please folks, so

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Chance for Progress on US Hostage Deal Proposal

Chance for Progress on US Hostage Deal Proposal

BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: Reports suggest that there is a chance for agreement on a hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas following negotiations in Qatar. * According to the reports, Israel has agreed

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View from Your Window

**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 Apollon Hellas, a ferry crossing the Athens Harbour, from the ninth deck level of the Celebrity

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View from Your Window

**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 Athens International Airport through the window of flight LS1213, Jet2.com from BHX. ** We need more photos

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The BFD World News Quiz

The BFD World News Quiz

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