EPA EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic warned that Europeans “stand ready to defend our interests” The European Union’s trade chief said the 27-member bloc is committed to securing a trade deal with the US based on “respect” not “threats”. It comes after US President Donald Trump threatened to slap a 50% tariff on all goods...
Getty Images Investigators are examining whether foggy conditions and technical glitches at a San Diego airport that cut off lights meant to guide pilots may have played a role in a fatal plane crash. A Cessna 550 crashed early Thursday into a residential neighbourhood, burning cars and destroying at least one home. Authorities say all...
Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent Reuters The King is visiting Canada after President Trump said it should be part of the US “This is a big deal for the King to do this,” says Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian high commissioner to the UK, as King Charles prepares for a historic visit showing support for Canada, which...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images Trump said the Golden Dome will be completed by the end of his term. Warheads raining down from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Faster-than-sound cruise missiles striking US infrastructure. Sky-high nuclear blasts. These are just some of the nightmarish scenarios that experts warn could come true if...
Nick Ericsson BBC World Service Reuters President Trump doubled down on his unfounded claims of a white genocide in a remarkable meeting with President Ramaphosa South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation went to Washington this week hoping for a boost and a reset after months of acrimony with the Donald Trump administration. Instead...
Steve Rosenberg Russia editor PAVEL BEDNYAKOV/POOL/AFP via Getty It’s 2:30am. Inside the Kremlin walls I’m wandering alone through the vast grounds trying – and failing – to find my way out. I spot a checkpoint, approach and show my passport. “Nyet vykhoda!” [“No exit!”] replies the guard. He points in the opposite direction. I walk...
Katya Adler Europe editor Reporting fromNorthern Norway and Svalbard BBC As soon as Magnus Mæland became mayor of a small town on Norway’s northern tip in late 2023, three delegations from China came knocking on his door. “It’s because they want to be a polar superpower,” he tells me. China might not instinctively spring to...
Juna Moon and Tessa Wong BBC News Reporting fromSeoul and Singapore BBC Korean Han Tae-soon had spent decades looking for her daughter Kyung-ha The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul. “I was going to the market and asked Kyung-ha, ‘Aren’t you...
Eight people have been found guilty after US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in Paris nearly a decade ago. The four who took part in the heist were given prison sentences of up to eight years, but most of these terms were suspended. Two...
Several people have suffered life-threatening injuries in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg, police have said. The city’s fire department said 12 people were injured in the attack, but police later said there were no reliable figures for the number of victims. Hamburg Police said officers arrested...
Paul Adams BBC diplomatic correspondent Reuters A headline in Israel’s liberal daily Ha’aretz this week put it starkly: “Diplomatic tsunami nears,” it warned, “as Europe begins to act against Israel’s ‘complete madness’ in Gaza.” This week’s diplomatic assault has taken many forms, not all of them foreseen. From concerted international condemnation of Israel’s actions in...
Ian Youngs Culture reporter Getty Images Salgado dedicated himself to photographing nature and indigenous life in his later years Sebastião Salgado, regarded as one of the world’s greatest documentary photographers, has died at the age of 81. The Brazil-born photographer was known for his dramatic and unflinching black-and-white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty,...
Rushdie Abualouf Gaza correspondent Alice Cuddy Reporting from Jerusalem EPA The limited amount of food that trickled into Gaza after an Israeli blockade was partly lifted has sparked chaotic scenes, as hunger continues to spread. Bakeries distributing food were overwhelmed by crowds and forced to close on Thursday, and armed looters attacked an aid convoy...
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News NTB/Jan Langhaugvia via Reuters The huge ship crashed into a local resident’s front garden on Thursday The watch officer of a huge container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident. Investigators said the man,...
A “really muscly” kangaroo “tried to drown” a man in Australia, after the two got into a punch-up. Don James is said to have found himself fighting for his life as the marsupial held him down in floodwaters which had pooled on the side of the road near Port Macquarie – only escaping after the...