Yolande Knell Middle East correspondent Rushdi Abualouf Gaza correspondent EPA Armed members of Hamas’s military wing took part in hostage handover ceremonies during the recent ceasefire Hamas is said to have rejected an Israeli proposal for a six-week ceasefire in Gaza which called for the armed group to give up its weapons. A senior Palestinian...
Angry Nigerians are turning to social media to describe how they have been locked out of their accounts on the digital financial platform, CBEX. People have posted videos of themselves crying, saying that they could not withdraw their investments and worried that their money had gone. Some furious customers ransacked a CBEX office in the...
The parents and wife of one of the people who died when the roof of a nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic last week have become the first to press charges against the club’s owners. Police lieutenant Virgilio Rafael Cruz Aponte was one of the 231 people killed when the roof of the Jet Set...
Several prisons in France have been hit by a wave of attacks overnight, the justice minister has said. Gérald Darmanin said prisons had faced “intimidation attempts” ranging from vehicle burning to automatic weapon fire. La Parisien reports that vehicles were set on fire in several prison car parks, while a prison in Toulon was targeted...
Annabelle Liang Business reporter Getty Images Xi started his South East Asia trip in Vietnam China’s President Xi Jinping has called on Vietnam to oppose “unilateral bullying” to upkeep a global system of free trade – though he stopped short of naming the US. It comes as Xi is on a so called “charm offensive”...
Heba Bitar BBC Eye Investigations, el-Geneina Hafiza Hafiza and her brother lost their mother in August 2024 when a shell hit the market where she was working “She left no last words. She was dead when she was carried away,” says Hafiza quietly, as she describes how her mother was killed in a city under...
Mahjooba Nowrouzi BBC Afghan Service BBC Carpet weaving is one of few professions open to women since the Taliban government took power in 2021 At a workshop in Kabul where carpets are made, hundreds of women and girls work in a cramped space, the air thick and stifling. Among them is 19-year-old Salehe Hassani. “We...
Donald Trump has said Volodymyr Zelensky shares the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin for “millions of people dead” in the Ukraine war. The US president was responding to reporters’ questions during a meeting with El Salvador’s leader at the White House. “When you start a war you got to know you can win,” he...
Alfie Tobutt BBC World Service Getty Images The sandstorm blanketed parts of southern Iraq in an orange haze More than a thousand people have been left with respiratory problems after a sandstorm swept across Iraq’s central and southern parts of the country, health officials said. One official in Muthanna province reported to the AFP news...
BBC Machias Seal Island is a tiny dot on maps of North America. But the uninhabited, fogbound rock is significant for its location in an area known as the “Grey Zone” – the site of a rare international dispute between Canada and the United States. The two neighbours and long-time allies have each long laid...
Getty Images Mr Mahdawi participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University An organiser of pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University has been arrested by immigration officials as he attended an interview as part of his application for US citizenship, his lawyer says. Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder who is due to graduate next month from...
Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent addressed reporters within minutes of Trump’s tariffs pause on 9 April In the chaotic minutes after US President Donald Trump’s administration abruptly reversed course and paused dozens of sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs, one man quickly became the public face of the decision: Treasury...
Danai Nesta Kupemba BBC News Guardia Civil Ministry of Interior Police say the couple’s activities were connected to a larger global trafficking organisation Spanish authorities have arrested a couple suspected of selling exotic cats online, including protected species like white tigers, pumas and clouded leopards. Civil Guard police raided the couple’s home on the island...
Harvard University has rejected a list of sweeping demands sent by the White House that asked the university to change many of its policies or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding. “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the university wrote on its X account on Monday. The...
More than 400 people have been killed in recent attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s Darfur region, says the UN citing “credible sources”. Last week, the RSF launched an intense ground and aerial assault on refugee camps surrounding the city of El-Fasher in an attempt to seize the last state capital...