This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Thursday,

the 13th of April, these are our main stories.

Fresh revelations from a major leak of classified US government documents

suggest that Washington believed the UN Secretary General

has been too willing to accommodate Russian interests.

An unprecedented analysis of how cancer's grow has concluded

that a universal cure is unlikely anytime soon.

The bodies of six inmates have been found hanged inside a cell

in one of Ecuador's most notorious prisons.

Also in this podcast.

It's a close-up of an image of an eye wearing eyeshadow on a

Asian model, but you can see the model is using one of her fingers

to push up the outside of her eye.

After an ill-thought-through ad, could fashion brand

your face a Chinese boycott?

The US Department of Defense is continuing to deal with the fall

out of one of the largest leaks of classified material in recent years.

Most of it relating to the war in Ukraine.

The documents also indicate embarrassingly, but perhaps not surprisingly,

that the US has been eavesdropping on its allies,

including South Korea, Israel and Egypt.

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