It took months of planning and included over 125 planes, a submarine and 14 “bunker buster” bombs. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas describes how the US mission “Operation Midnight Hammer” took place and analyses new satellite imagery that reveals the damage at Iran’s nuclear sites Isfahan, Natanz and Fordo. Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut...
Sergei Tikhanovsky, the husband of Belarus’ opposition leader, has called on US President Donald Trump to “just say the word” and ask for all political prisoners in Belarus to be released. The opposition activist was freed unexpectedly on Saturday and reunited with his wife in Lithuania. Thirteen other political prisoners were also released and forced...
Two South African engineers have returned home after spending more than two years in jail in Equatorial Guinea on what the UN has called “arbitrary and illegal” drugs charges. Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham, both in their mid-50s, were arrested in February 2023 after drugs were allegedly found in their luggage. They were sentenced to...
Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images A Ukrainian serviceman looks through the scope of a rifle shortly after the incursion into Kursk Ukraine’s top military commander says its forces are still defending a small area of territory inside Russia that it captured almost a year ago. In August 2024 Ukraine launched...
Donald Trump has said Iran “must now make peace” or face future attacks, after the US struck struck three Iranian nuclear facilities. The US president said the strikes were a “spectacular military success” in a televised address to nation on Saturday. Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister had warned that US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict would...
Reuters A satelite image of Fordo, one of three Iranian nuclear sites hit by Trump US President Donald Trump says the American military has completed strikes on three nuclear sites in Iran, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing war between Iran and Israel. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear...
“Two weeks” turned out to be two days. On Thursday Donald Trump gave the Iranians a deadline if they wanted to avoid a US strike on their nuclear facilities, but that deadline turned out to be much shorter than expected. Two days later, the US president announced on Saturday evening that US warplanes had bombed...
Shingai Nyoka BBC News, Harare BBC “Sir Wicknell”, who started out as a wages clerk for a bus firm, has become such a celebrity that his face is decorating minibus taxis A flashy tycoon in Zimbabwe has a nation entranced – some beguiled, others alarmed – by his habit of giving away cars along with...
Corbis via Getty Images A 1900 photograph of the customs department in Dubai In the winter of 1956, The Times correspondent David Holden arrived on the island of Bahrain, then still a British protectorate. After a short-lived career teaching geography, Holden had looked forward to his Arabian posting, but he hadn’t expected to be attending...
Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor Getty Images At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, a Russian MP came up to me. “Are you going to bomb Iran?” he asked. “I’m not planning to bomb anyone!” I replied. “I mean you, the British…” “Don’t you mean Donald Trump?” “He’s told what to do by Britain,” the man...
Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has said the Trump administration failed to suppress pro-Palestinian voices, following his release from more than three months in immigration detention. “My existence is a message” to the Trump administration, he told the BBC after returning to New Jersey from a detention centre in Louisiana. “All these attempts to suppress...
Robin Levinson King BBC News Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office/Reuters Police said suspect Vance Luther Boelter was armed at the time of his arrest The suspect accused of fatally shooting a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in a gun rampage last week was a doomsday “prepper”, according to the FBI. The wife of the accused, Vance...
Pakistan has announced it plans to nominate US President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing the role that Islamabad says he played in helping to negotiate a ceasefire last month between India and Pakistan. On X, the Pakistani government said Trump deserved the award “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal...
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News BBC At least eight people have died in a hot air balloon accident in Brazil, a state governor has said. There were 21 people on board the balloon in the city of Praia Grande on Saturday morning, Governor of Santa Catarina Jorginho Mello said in a post on X. Mello...
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The director of national intelligence had previously said Iran was not building nuclear weapons Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could produce nuclear weapons “within weeks”, months after she testified before Congress that the country was not building them. The US Director of National Intelligence said...