Ornithologist Simon Hugheston-Roberts spotted the western reef heron – more commonly found in southern Europe, Africa and parts of Asia – at Y Foryd in Caernarfon at 10:00 BST on Saturday. After confirming the grey-blue bird, he alerted a birdwatching WhatsApp group and by the afternoon, about 300 ornithologists arrived in the town hoping to […]
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Photo: Mnazini / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) A court in Mali has sentenced a French intelligence agent with diplomatic status to 20 years in prison for “undermining state security”, judicial sources said Friday, in a ruling that further strains already fraught relations between the West African junta-led state and its former colonial ruler France.
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