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Black Hawk Helicopters Rescue Hundreds From Summer Camp During Floods

12. Juli 2026 um 01:04
The National Guard evacuated campers after flooding in Missouri that reminded some families of the devastating floods at Camp Mystic in central Texas last year.

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Floodwaters from a cluster of thunderstorms that dropped a foot of water in some parts of Missouri.
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  • Ben Okri: ‘What happens when we die? We don’t die. We change realms’
    The Booker prize-winning novelist on the art of lying for a living, the cosmic force of love, and gargling loudlyBorn in Minna, Nigeria, Ben Okri, 67, spent his childhood in Nigeria and London. He published his first novel Flowers and Shadows in 1980 and won the Booker prize in 1991 with The Famished Road. His subsequent work includes Astonishing the Gods, which in 2019 was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 novels “that shaped our world”. In 2023, he was knighted for services to literature. His l
     

Ben Okri: ‘What happens when we die? We don’t die. We change realms’

11. Juli 2026 um 10:00

The Booker prize-winning novelist on the art of lying for a living, the cosmic force of love, and gargling loudly

Born in Minna, Nigeria, Ben Okri, 67, spent his childhood in Nigeria and London. He published his first novel Flowers and Shadows in 1980 and won the Booker prize in 1991 with The Famished Road. His subsequent work includes Astonishing the Gods, which in 2019 was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 novels “that shaped our world”. In 2023, he was knighted for services to literature. His latest novel, Waking the Warriors, is published on 16 July. He lives with his partner and their child in London.

When were you happiest?
On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.

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