Kate Whannel Political reporter Reuters Diego Garcia, the largest island in the archipelago, was separated from Mauritius along with the rest of the Chagos Islands in 1965 and now houses a US military base The government has temporarily been banned from concluding talks on the Chagos Islands deal by a last-minute injunction by a High...
André Rhoden-Paul BBC News Watch: BBC at the scene of shooting outside Jewish museum A couple who worked for the Israeli Embassy have been shot dead outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC. Police say the victims, who have been named as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were killed by a man who shouted...
Video appears to show suspect Elias Rodriguez being taken away by police and shouting ‘free Palestine’. Read full article at source...
Two Israeli embassy staff were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in downtown Washington DC by a man who police say shouted “free, free Palestine” after the attack. The victims, a young couple, were shot while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum, DC police said, adding that the incident appears targeted. The shooting...
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has condemned a “serious accident” during the launch of a new warship on Thursday, calling it a “criminal act” that could not be tolerated. Parts of the 5,000-ton destroyer’s bottom were crushed, tipping the vessel off balance, state media reported. Kim, who was present at the launch, has ordered...
A natural disaster has been declared in New South Wales, Australia, as widespread flooding has prompted nearly 50,000 people to evacuate. Footage captured in the Mid North Coast shows cattle displaced on beaches and trapped residents being airlifted from their homes to safety. One man has died and three are missing, with authorities expressing ‘grave...
Watch: ‘Turn the lights down’ – how the Trump-Ramaphosa meeting took an unexpected turn Three months into Donald Trump’s second term, foreign leaders should be aware that a coveted trip to the Oval Office comes with the risk of a very public dressing down, often straying into attempts at provocation and humiliation. Wednesday’s episode with...
Watch: ‘Turn the lights down’ – how the Trump-Ramaphosa meeting took an unexpected turn Donald Trump has proved to be the political Rottweiler of right-wing Afrikaner groups, taking their fight to South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa. They were quick to celebrate the US president’s ambush of Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, with the Solidarity Movement...
A federal judge has said the deportation of eight men to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated his order that migrants must be allowed to challenge their removal to third countries. Judge Brian Murphy’s finding on Wednesday was the latest turn in a fast-evolving dispute. One day earlier, he ordered US authorities to keep custody of the...
Watch moment Trump confronts South Africa’s president with video US President Donald Trump has confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House with a video that the US president said supports his claim that white farmers are being “persecuted” in the country. The footage shown during a news conference with the South African...
As Israel’s war in Gaza enters a new, violent phase, a growing number of voices within the country are speaking out against it – and how it’s being fought. Yair Golan, a left-wing politician and former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), sparked outrage on Monday when he said: “Israel is on the...
Naomi Scherbel-Ball BBC News, reporting from Jerusalem Supplied Videos showed protests chanting: “Out! Out! Out! All of Hamas, out.” Palestinians have taken to the streets in southern Gaza for a third day to protest against Hamas. Hundreds of demonstrators were seen in videos posted on social media calling for an end to the war and...
US President Donald Trump confronted his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, over widely discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa, during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday. Mr Trump said that white farmers are “fleeing South Africa”, playing footage to the room showing people chanting “kill the Boer, kill the farmer”. Responding, Mr...
A number of countries have condemned the Israeli military’s actions after troops fired warning shots in the vicinity of a diplomatic delegation on a visit to the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military accused the group of straying from an approved route and said warning shots were fired into the air “to distance them away”....
The US has accepted a plane from Qatar, a gift that sparked criticism including from some of President Trump’s biggest supporters. “The secretary of defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Wednesday. The plane will need...