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A Ugandan military helicopter with eight people on board has crashed at the main international airport in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, an aviation official has told the BBC. The state-run news agency reported that a fire broke out after the helicopter crashed at the Aden Adde International Airport, but it had been quickly contained by the...

Anastasiya Gribanova BBC Ukrainian Service, Kyiv Scarlett Barter BBC World Service Kevin McGregor / BBC Ukrainian serviceman Serhiy Melnyk holds the piece of shrapnel that was once lodged in his heart From his pocket, Serhiy Melnyk pulls out a small rusty shard, wrapped neatly in paper. He holds it up. “It grazed my kidney, pierced...

US President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum which will impose tighter restrictions on Cuba. The move is aimed at reversing some of the measures introduced by the Biden administration which eased US pressure on the Communist-run country. The White House said it would enforce an existing ban on American tourists going to Cuba more...

Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Twenty-one Italian cities are on the highest alert, including Rome, Milan and Venice Two people have died in Italy as temperatures continue to soar amid an intense heatwave across Europe. In Bologna a 47-year-old died after falling ill on a construction site while a 70-year-old man was reported drowned...

Is the “big, beautiful” India-US trade deal slipping out of reach? With just days to go before a 9 July deadline set by US President Donald Trump’s administration, hopes of clinching an interim trade pact between Delhi and Washington remain alive but increasingly entangled in hard bargaining. Despite White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt hinting...

Four employees of a satirical magazine in Turkey have been arrested for publishing a cartoon that appears to show the Prophet Muhammad – a sacred religious figure whose depiction is forbidden in Islam. Turkey’s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya condemned LeMan magazine’s drawing as “shameless”, announcing that its editor-in-chief, graphic designer, institutional director and cartoonist had...