Category: World

Imran Qureshi BBC Hindi, Bengaluru Karnataka police Kutina has defended her lifestyle saying she and her children were happy living in the cave Police in India are trying to piece together the story of a Russian woman who was found living in a cave in the southern state of Karnataka with her two young daughters. Nina Kutina was rescued on 9 July […]

Getty Images The Trump administration is treating South Africa almost like a pariah, blacklisting its envoys, refusing to send top-level officials to meetings it hosts, and threatening to hit the nation with such high tariffs that its economic crisis is likely to deepen. The latest sign of this came with the revelation by the second-biggest party in South Africa’s coalition government, the […]

Watch: How a day of bombing unfolded in Damascus Israel’s military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in southern Syria on Wednesday, as deadly sectarian fighting in the mostly Druze province of Suweida continued for a fourth day. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its forces were “working to save our Druze brothers and to eliminate the regime’s […]

But now, parts of the land have been restored. Crops are beginning to flourish and bees are buzzing around once again. The people responsible for this change are a hodgepodge group – former taxi drivers and miners, people who barely finished secondary school and some with higher education degrees. The unifying factor? Most have youth on their side. “There is life beyond […]

As Donald Trump continues to be dogged by questions about his administration’s handling of possible files related to deceased sex offenderJeffrey Epstein, he is relying on a tried and true strategy. The problem for the president, however, is that his plan of attack may inadvertently pit him against some of his most loyal supporters. In a lengthy Truth Social post on Wednesday […]

Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent Reporting fromBuckley Space Force Base, Colorado Watch: US Space Force Guardians spring into action during training exercise There’s a short sharp shout: “Launch Yemen!” The men and women in uniform sitting in front of computers all respond in unison, “Copy, launch Yemen.” In the US Space Force, they’re called Guardians, not troops. Staring into their screens at a […]

Jeronimo Kataquapit, a member of Ontario’s Attawapiskat First Nation, is camped outside The Ring of Fire, a mineral-rich region located in remote northern Ontario. With just a canoe and a tent, the 20-year-old and his family have travelled more than 400 kilometers to protest a provincial law that designated the area a “special economic zone” for mining. That move was a precursor […]

Juliette Touma, the director of communications for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has visited Gaza several times during and before the war and has been reflecting on the children she has met there and in other conflict zones. “Adam has been on my mind lately, more so than usual. I met Adam years ago in the Yemeni port city of […]

Theo Leggett International business correspondent AFP/Getty Images Listen to Theo read this article While the preliminary report into what caused the loss of Air India Flight 171 last month has provided some answers, it has also prompted a wave of speculation about its cause. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into a building less than a minute after take-off from the city of […]

Gary O’Donoghue Chief North America correspondent The BBC’s Gary O’Donoghue shares the story behind his exclusive telephone interview with Donald Trump. Donald Trump makes a habit of calling reporters out of the blue. The US president seems to prefer an off-the-cuff telephone conversation to a sit-down interview on camera. On Monday evening it was my turn. And I’ll be frank with you […]

Watch: 1979 news report on the assassination of President Park Chung-hee Two gunshots. That is how Yoo Seok-sul begins recounting the night of Friday, 26 October, 1979. A former security guard in the Korea Central Intelligence Agency, or KCIA, as the South’s spy division was known, Yoo has many stories to tell. But this is perhaps the most infamous. He remembers the […]

Ácora, located in the southeast corner of Peru almost 3,800 kilometres above sea level, is one of the Peruvian regions which has been most impacted by climate change – endangering crop production and biodiversity in addition to worsening food insecurity. “It was not like this before, the climate has changed a lot,” said Pascuala Pari, head of the Sumaq Chuyma Association in […]

Getty Images Severance star Britt Lower and Penguin star Colin Farrell were both nominated Adolescence star Owen Cooper has made Emmy history as one of the youngest ever to be nominated for this year’s awards. The 15-year-old British actor has bagged the nomination for best supporting actor in a limited/anthology series or TV movie. If he wins, Cooper will be the youngest […]

Israel says it has bombed Syrian government forces around Suweida, as they entered the predominantly Druze city following two days of deadly sectarian clashes. About 100 people have reportedly been killed since the fighting between Druze militias and Bedouin tribes erupted on Sunday. Syria’s defence minister announced a ceasefire in Suweida on Tuesday morning, saying an agreement had been reached with local […]

Joel Gunter & Sean Seddon BBC News Getty Images Thousands of Afghans have been moved to the UK under a secret scheme which was set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data, it can be revealed. In February 2022, the personal details of nearly 19,000 people who had applied to move to the UK after the Taliban seized power in […]

Adopted unanimously, the resolution extending the UN Mission to support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA) until 28 January 2026, underscores the Mission’s critical role in maintaining fragile stability amid signs of renewed military escalation and deepening humanitarian need. The resolution – 2786 (2025) – reaffirms the Council’s support for the 2018 Stockholm Agreement, including the ceasefire in the Houthi-controlled port city – and […]

Donald Trump has said that he is disappointed but not done with Vladimir Putin, in an exclusive phone call with the BBC. The US president was pressed on whether he trusts the Russian leader, and replied: “I trust almost no-one.” Trump was speaking hours after he announced plans to send weapons to Ukraine and warned of severe tariffs on Russia if there […]

Navin Singh Khadka Environment correspondent, BBC World Service Bloomberg via Getty Images India heavily relies on coal to meet its daily energy demands India has always taken a hard position on coal, arguing that it is crucial for its energy security and developmental needs. But energy experts and environment campaigners are increasingly saying it should at least try to decarbonise or curtail […]

The UK is to start processing Syrian asylum claims again, more than seven months after decisions were paused following the fall of the Assad regime. Asylum minister Dame Angela Eagle said the Home Office had “worked to lift the pause as soon as there was sufficient information to make accurate and well-evidenced determinations”. She said claims could now be processed, and returns […]

James Cook Scotland Editor Reporting fromTórshavn, Faroe Islands Cara Berkley BBC News Reporting fromTórshavn, Faroe Islands BBC The 18 islands which make up the Faroes are connected by 23 tunnels, four of which run below the sea The Faroese prime minister says Shetland could boost growth and revitalise island life by following his country in replacing ageing ferries with undersea tunnels. Shetland […]

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 […]