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BBC Verify: Asylum hotels, RSF gains, dam hit

BBC Verify rounds up: MPs brand the UK’s asylum accommodation as failing, with about 32,000 people in hotels in June and 103,000 in support overall; use of hotels fell earlier in 2025 but June totals were 8% up on a year before, and Labour plans to end them by 2029. Verified videos show RSF fighters celebrating at el-Fasher’s 6th Division HQ amid disputed control claims. England and Wales recorded 262 erroneous prisoner releases to March 2025, including Hadush Kebatu, later recaptured. Footage also shows a Belgorod dam breached after a Ukrainian drone strike, with indicated downstream flooding.

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