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Reuters Ten people were killed as they gathered near a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed says his son, Abdullah, was “searching for a sip of water” when he took the family’s jerrycans on Sunday morning and headed as usual to one of the water distribution points in the urban Nuseirat camp, in central Gaza. “That area […]

Listen to article Monia, a Sicilian woman in her early forties, was overjoyed when she discovered in October 2022 she was expecting her first child. Her doctor, however, recommended a genetic test due to her age, and the result was one no parent wants to receive. The foetus had a genetic syndrome. Monia, who declined to give her surname, asked her gynaecologist what she […]

Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in central Gaza on Sunday, emergency service officials say. Their bodies were sent to Nuseirat’s al-Awda Hospital, which also treated 16 injured people including seven children, a doctor there said. Eyewitnesses said a drone fired a missile at a crowd queuing with empty […]

The UN’s key Sustainable Development Goals Report released Monday by Secretary-General António Guterres, chronicles both progress and setbacks – showing that the world has made significant advances but is still drastically off-track to achieve its development goals by 2030. Seize the day “This report is more than a snapshot of today. It’s also a compass pointing the way to progress. This report […]

Listen to article US President Donald Trump announced new weapons for Ukraine on Monday, and threatened to hit buyers of Russian exports with sanctions unless Russia agrees a peace deal in 50 days, a major shift in policy brought on by frustration with Moscow. Sitting side-by-side with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that he was disappointed in […]

Thomas Copeland BBC World Service BBC Desiree Hagan broadcasts across a coverage area the size of Indiana A gale-force storm hit north-eastern Alaska last winter. Residents of Kotzebue, a town of about 3,000, are used to polar conditions, so Desiree Hagan still had to get to work. “The snow was so intense you could not see in front of you,” Ms Hagan […]

An association of Indian pilots has defended the crew of the Air India Flight 171 which crashed in June, killing 260 people. The Indian Commercial Pilots’ Association (ICPA) said the crew “acted in line with their training and responsibilities under challenging conditions and the pilots shouldn’t be vilified based on conjecture”. “To casually suggest pilot suicide without verified evidence is a gross […]

The Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the besieged city of el-Fasher on Friday in a battle that raged for seven hours, witnesses told the BBC. RSF fighters managed to capture a cattle market, a prison and a military base while broadcasting videos of themselves walking around empty stockyards. It was the first time RSF fighters had entered the city […]

Will Grant Mexico, Central America and Cuba Correspondent BBC Water levels in Lake Toronto, a reservoir in the north of Mexico, are said to be critically low After the thirtieth consecutive month without rain, the townsfolk of San Francisco de Conchos in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua gather to plead for divine intervention. On the shores of Lake Toronto, the reservoir […]

Nick Thorpe BBC Budapest Correspondent BBC Hungarians have a popular saying: “Visszanyal a fagyi”. Translation: “The ice-cream licks back.” In other words, watch out, because what you enjoy devouring, might enjoy devouring you. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has assiduously attacked a liberal world view for at least two decades, transforming the country into what he has variously called an “illiberal democracy” […]

Threatened or actual tariff increases are largely focused on taxing imports into the United States and will make the products made by factories outside the country more expensive – a situation which may drive down demand. The ILO’s Better Work programme, a partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), has supported garment factories, many of which export their products to the United […]

Getty Images Muhammadu Buhari was reported to have travelled to the UK in April for a routine medical check-up but subsequently fell ill Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, who has died age 82 in a London clinic, was a former military ruler and self-styled converted democrat who returned to power through elections but struggled to convince Nigerians he could deliver on the change […]

Mark Poynting and Erwan Rivault BBC Climate & Data teams Getty Images Shading from the midday Sun during a recent heatwave in southern France Warmer water at the seaside might sound appealing for your holiday dip, but a recent ocean heatwave in the Mediterranean Sea has been so intense scientists fear potentially devastating consequences for marine life. The temperature of the sea […]

Kayleen Devlin, Julie Yoonnyung Lee and Kevin Nguyen BBC Verify Getty Images A new beach resort in North Korea, criticised by human rights groups for the harsh treatment of construction workers, has welcomed its first group of Russian tourists this week. The Wonsan Kalma resort was opened in a grand ceremony last month by North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, who hailed […]

Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Bloomberg via Getty Images William Ruto has faced mounting public resentment since he became president Kenya’s William Ruto rode into office on a wave of enthusiasm among ordinary people who hoped he would live up to his promises to improve their lives. Instead, he is facing unrelenting criticism – seen as unmatched in the country’s history. Seemingly frustrated […]

Air India plane descending moments before crash Investigators have made a chilling discovery in the preliminary investigation into the Air India Flight 171 crash which killed 260 people in June. Just seconds after take-off, both of the 12-year-old Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuel-control switches abruptly moved to the “cut-off” position, starving the engines of fuel and triggering total power loss. Switching to “cut-off” […]

Paul Njie BBC News, Rubaya Hassan Lali / BBC More than 10,000 people work at the Rubaya mine digging up coltan ore M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo recently allowed the BBC to visit a huge mining site under their control which is vital to the production of the world’s mobile phones – and over its vast expanse not one […]

Courtesy: Vinay Gupta Kundanlal (right) with an unidentified person at Berlin zoo in 1928 “Let me tell you a secret. Your nana (grandfather) helped Jewish families escape the Nazis.” That single sentence from his mother set Vinay Gupta off on a journey into his grandfather’s past. What he unearthed was a tale more gripping than fiction: a little-known act of heroism by […]

Sarah Rainsford Southern and Eastern Europe correspondent SERGEI CHIRIKOV/AFP via Getty Images Valery Gergiev seen conducting an orchestra at Moscow’s Red Square in 2018 Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been barred from European stages ever since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A close ally of Vladimir Putin for many years, the director of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Russian state theatres has never […]

Listen to article A preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed, killing 260 people last month, after the plane’s engine fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped, starving the engines of fuel. The Boeing (BA.N) 787 Dreamliner bound for London from the Indian city of Ahmedabad immediately began to lose thrust and sink, according to the report on […]

Tiffanie Turnbull and Katy Watson BBC News Reporting fromMorwell, Australia Watch: Australia’s mushroom murder case… in under two minutes For years, from behind a computer screen, Erin Patterson built up a reputation in an online true crime community as a “super sleuth”. Today, she herself has become a true crime obsession. When three people died – and another fell gravely ill – […]