US President Donald Trump will decide whether or not the US gets directly involved in the Iran-Israel conflict within the next two weeks, the White House has said. In a White House press briefing, Press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a message directly from Trump: “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations...
Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters Satellite imagery showed a large whole in the Arak reactor building’s domed roof Israeli jets have bombed a nuclear reactor under construction in central Iran during a wave of air strikes on the seventh day of the conflict between the two countries. The Israeli military said it targeted the Arak heavy...
Getty Images A part of a US national suicide prevention hotline that caters for LGBTQ young people says it will soon close, after the Trump administration cut its funding. The administration has accused the service of “radical gender ideology”. It says it will still fund the wider 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline – of which...
Reuters Funerals continued on Thursday for Palestinians killed by the gunfire At least 12 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces while waiting for aid in central Gaza, according to rescuers and medics. Reports say the group was killed by gunfire near an aid distribution site run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation...
Armenia’s liberal government has never been an ally of the deeply conservative Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), but when Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made extraordinary allegations against an unnamed senior clergyman, it blew open a deep divide. “Your Grace, go fool around with your uncle’s wife. What do you want from me?” said Pashinyan. He also...
A hospital in the Israeli town of Beersheba has been hit by an Iranian missile on the seventh day of the conflict between the two countries. Iran said the strike had targeted a military site close to the hospital, not the facility itself. At least 89 people were injured in the overnight attacks – which...
Representatives of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have reached a draft agreement that could end decades of conflict. The breakthrough, mediated by the US and Qatar, provides for the “disengagement, disarmament and conditional integration” of armed groups fighting in eastern DR Congo. It also includes provisions for a joint security mechanism to prevent...
Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi LightRocket via Getty Images An Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner seen in Copenhagen in May One of the engines of the Air India plane that crashed last week was new, while the other was not due for servicing until December, the airline’s chairman has said. In an interview with an...
A controversial South African politician central to a row over race relations in the country has been denied entry to the UK. The Home Office said Julius Malema had been deemed “non-conducive to the public good” and that it was “undesirable” to grant him entry. In a letter published by local media outlet News 24,...
Nikhil Inamdar BBC News, London Archana Shukla BBC News, Ahmedabad Getty Images Relatives and neighbours of 14-year-old Akash Patni, one of the crash victims, mourn as they wait for his body Days after the devastating Air India-171 crash killed at least 270 people, investigators from across the world are putting their heads together to find...
Eleven Palestinians seeking aid were among at least 33 killed by Israeli gunfire and strikes across Gaza on Wednesday, rescuers and medics say. A spokesman for the Hamas-run civil defence agency said Israeli forces “opened fire and launched several shells” at thousands of people who were queuing for desperately needed food supplies on the main...
People and businesses in the US have faced a whirlwind of policy change in recent months. But one thing has remained fixed: borrowing costs set by the US central bank. The Federal Reserve stuck with that strategy on Wednesday, voting to leave its key interest rate unchanged. The decision marked the fourth in a row...
A university in Nigeria has sparked outrage after a video went viral showing female students being touched to see if they were wearing bras before taking part in an exam. In the footage, female staff at Olabisi Onabanjo University in south-western Ogun State are seen touching some students’ chests as they queue to enter an...
Joel Gunter Reporting from Kyiv BBC Oleksandr Bondarchuk was unable to make it to a shelter when the strikes hit Kyiv. “It was terrible,” he said. “Everything was destroyed.” Evhen Povarenkov was standing at a line of police tape that separated the public from the intensive search and rescue operation around his building. He stared...
A 22-year-old fake dentist and two assistants have been charged by Czech police after treating dozens of patients using instructions found on the internet. Police said the three family members opened a surgery without a licence in their home in Havlickuv Brod two years ago and treated patients without any “necessary professional knowledge”. They added...