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South Africa has appointed a special envoy to the US in an effort to ease tensions between the two countries, which have worsened since Donald Trump’s return as president. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Mcebisi Jonas’s selection, adding that he would be “entrusted with [advancing] South Africa’s diplomatic, trade and bilateral priorities”. Jonas, a former deputy...
A private plane carrying six people crashed in an open field in upstate New York on Saturday, killing all on board, authorities say. Among those on board were celebrated former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) football player Karenna Groff, her parents and her brother, according to a family statement. The US National Transportation Safety Board...
Algeria has asked 12 French embassy staff to leave the country within 48 hours, France’s foreign minister has said. Jean-Noel Barrot added that it was linked to the indictment of three Algerians in France on Friday, one of whom is a consular official. They are accused of involvement in the abduction last year of Amir...
A Palestinian paramedic who has been missing since an Israeli attack that killed 15 other emergency workers in southern Gaza three weeks ago is being detained by Israeli authorities, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said. The ICRC confirmed in a statement that it had “received information” that Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS)...
Two British tourists have drowned off the coast of a popular tourist town at the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef. A boy, 17, and a man, 46, were swept out to sea on Sunday while swimming at a beach without lifeguards in Seventeen Seventy – a town in Queensland named for the year...
The White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood has called a Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch that impersonated her using exaggerated prosthetic teeth “mean and unfunny”. The British actress said the US comedy programme “punched down” on her and suggested the sketch was misogynistic. In a series of Instagram posts, Wood wrote that she was happy...
Getty Images Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died at the age of 89 in his native Peru, was a towering figure in Latin American literature and culture who rarely shied away from controversy. With more than 50 works to his name, many of which have been widely translated, Vargas Llosa...
Ione Wells South America correspondent Reuters Noboa told reporters in Santa Elena there was “no doubt as to who the winner” in the run-off vote was Sitting centre-right President Daniel Noboa has won the run-off round of Ecuador’s presidential election, meaning he will now serve a full four-year term. Noboa, who described his victory as...
The BBC spoke to voters in Sydney, Australia about the country’s housing crisis ahead of the federal election on 3 May. From feeling trapped in renting, to wanting more investment in public housing, residents share their experiences and what they’d like to see the government do to help. More on this story. Read full article...
A South African court is due to re-examine the circumstances around the death of one of the most renowned campaigners against the racist system of apartheid, which had initially been described as accidental. A 1967 inquest ruled that Chief Albert Luthuli was walking on a railway line when he was struck by a train and...
Getty Images Shapiro, a contender for vice-president during Kamala Harris’s 2024 White House run, held a news conference in front of the damaged home A 38-year-old man has been arrested and is due to be charged following an alleged arson attack on the official residence of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, authorities have said. Cody Balmer...
A high school student from Wisconsin killed his parents as part of a larger plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump, the FBI has said. Nikita Casap, 17, has been charged with the killing of his mother, Tatiana Casap, 35, and his stepfather Donald Mayer, 51, who were found dead at their home on 28...
Paul Njie BBC News, Libreville AFP Gen Brice Oligui Nguema has been handed a seven-year mandate by an electorate relieved that the Bongo era is now past Gabon’s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema – who in 2023 led a coup that ended a 60-year dynasty – has won Saturday’s presidential election with more than...
Watch: Is the US heading into a recession? Three warning signs to watch Chinese officials are calling on US President Donald Trump to “completely cancel” his so-callled reciprocal tariffs, as a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies grinds on. This week, Trump announced a 90-day pause for a host of global tariffs he...