Author: Javeria Ejaz

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 – […]

Listen to article Following a deadly militant attack in Kashmir, Indian authorities launched a deportation campaign targeting Muslims, allegedly expelling nearly 1,900 people to Bangladesh, many without legal process, according to a report by The Washington Post. Testimonies and documents indicate that some deportees were even Indian citizens. Victims describe police brutality, destruction of identity papers, and forced deportation by sea or foot. Human […]

AFP Palestinians look on as a fire burns on a hilltop seized by Israeli settlers near Sinjil on 4 July Two Palestinians have been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old dual US citizen from Florida, was beaten to death during […]

UN News visited the farm to mark the first-ever World Horse Day, established this year by the UN General Assembly. By creating the Day, Member States sent a clear message: animals deserve to be treated with care and respect. A faithful companion From ancient battlefields to modern therapeutic programs, horses have been by humanity’s side for millennia—but in today’s high-tech world, few […]

Listen to article At least 60 Palestinians have been killed and 180 wounded in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn, including 27 people reportedly seeking humanitarian aid, according to health officials. In Gaza City, four people were killed and 10 injured when an Israeli air strike hit a residence on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah area, in the city’s east. Nasser Hospital […]

Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent Reuters Gaza has been devastated by 21 months of war between Israel and Hamas Negotiations between Israel and Hamas in Qatar on a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal are on the brink of collapse, according to Palestinian officials familiar with the details of the discussions. One senior official told the BBC that Israel had “bought time” […]

Abid Bhat/BBC A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: “If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here.” And many Kashmiris insist it was written with Pahalgam in mind. The small town, nestled between tall Himalayan mountains with a gurgling Lidder River flowing through it, is called the mini-Switzerland of India. […]

Listen to article The US State Department began firing more than 1,350 US-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine US ability to defend and promote US interests abroad. The layoffs, which affect 1,107 civil service and 246 foreign service officers based in the United […]

Nick Thorpe Central Europe correspondent EPA The 45 year old died in a psychiatric hospital three weeks after being forcibly conscripted (file photo) The death of a 45-year-old ethnic Hungarian in Ukraine, weeks after he was conscripted into the Ukrainian army, has provoked a furious row between the Hungarian government and authorities in Kyiv. Jozsef Sebestyen, a dual Ukrainian-Hungarian citizen, was beaten […]

For Gazans, a 60-day ceasefire being negotiated between Israel and Hamas would be a lifeline. A window to bring in large quantities of desperately needed food, water and medicine after severe – and at times total – Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries. But for Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz a two-month pause in military operations would create an opportunity to build what […]

Reuters A fuel shortage threatens to shut down life-saving services at Nasser hospital Doctors have warned of an imminent disaster at Gaza’s largest functioning hospital because of critical shortage of fuel and a widening Israeli ground offensive in the southern city of Khan Younis. Nasser Medical Complex was forced to stop admitting patients on Thursday, when witnesses said Israeli troops and tanks […]

Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai EPA/Shutterstock Police in Mumbai detain a woman who was participating in a protest this week against alleged injustice to Marathi speakers For weeks, a battle over language and identity has been raging in India’s richest state, Maharashtra. The row began in April after the Maharashtra government made it compulsory for state-run primary schools to teach Hindi as […]

Listen to article At least 798 people have been killed in Gaza since late May while attempting to receive food aid, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) said. “Up until the seventh of July, we’ve recorded now 798 killings, including 615 in the vicinity of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites, and 183 presumably on the route of aid convoys,” OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani […]

Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent BBC More than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in July 1995. Today remembrance is fraught The silence is shattered by a guttural scream. A group of people scrabble on the ground, sifting through the soil. One of them holds up a watch they have uncovered; another, a sandal. The scene […]

Ayse Sayin BBC Turkish in Ankara Paul Kirby Europe digital editor DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP Imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan still commands support among many Kurds After 40 years of armed struggle against the Turkish state, the outlawed Kurdish PKK will hold a ceremony on Friday to mark a symbolic first step in laying down its arms. The disarmament process will start under tight […]

Anoushka Mutanda Dougherty Podcast host, Diddy on Trial BBC Listen to Rianna read this article One day in 2010, Sean “Diddy” Combs was in the kitchen of his Beverly Hills estate with his assistant Capricorn Clark. “Let me show you something,” he said, summoning his girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, into the room. Turning to her, he issued a string of commands: “Sit down, […]

Chiagozie Nwonwu, Mungai Ngige & Olaronke Alo BBC Global Disinformation Unit AFP/Getty Images There have been real protests in Ivory Coast about upcoming elections, but in May the country was hit with false claims about a coup In May, Mafalda Marchioro woke up to messages from friends living overseas asking if she was safe in Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast. […]

Tiffanie Turnbull BBC News, Sydney Watch: CCTV and audio shown to court in mushroom trial Within minutes of Erin Patterson walking into a tiny hospital in rural Victoria, doctor Chris Webster realised she was a cold-blooded killer. “I knew,” he tells the BBC. “I thought, ‘Okay, yep, you did it, you heinous individual. You’ve poisoned them all’.” Dr Webster had spent the […]

She returns, over and over, to a single image: that of a ten-year-old girl – standing on the edge of adolescence, her future uncertain, and her rights still in grave doubt. “Will she be able to stay in school, graduate, and make her way through the world?” Dr. Kanem wonders. “Or is she going to be derailed by things like child marriage, […]

Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News in Kyiv BBC Visual Journalism Team Russian defence ministry Russia has tried to open up a third front in eastern Ukraine While Russia’s overnight drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have hit record levels, on the ground its military is claiming territorial gains. Last month Russian forces seized 556 sq km (215 sq miles), its biggest land grab […]