Ione Wells South America correspondent Reporting fromGuayaquil, Ecuador BBC The BBC has changed César’s name to protect him from gangs “The Albanian mafia would call me and say: ‘We want to send 500kg of drugs.’ If you don’t accept, they kill you.” César (not his real name) is a member of the Latin Kings, a...
A faulty radio antenna contributed to a deadly mid-air helicopter collision at an Australian theme park and resort, transport safety officials say. Four people died – including two British tourists – and several more were seriously injured when the two aircraft hit each other in January 2023, near Sea World on the Gold Coast. An...
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Getty Images India’s commerce minister said Indian start-ups should focus more on the high-tech sector India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal’s recent comments about the country’s start-up ecosystem have sparked a massive debate on social media and evoked strong reactions from some entrepreneurs. At the second edition of Startup Mahakumbh, a...
Jennifer Vasquez Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a prison in El Salvador during a Trump administration deportation initiative On 12 March, Kilmar Abrego Garcia was driving home with his young son in Maryland when he was stopped by agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Agents took Mr Garcia into custody, then...
A US judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the Associated Press’s access to presidential events after the White House blocked the agency in a dispute over the term “Gulf of America”. District Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday said the administration’s restrictions on AP journalists is “contrary to the First Amendment” of the US...
Iran is ready to engage with the US at talks on Saturday over its nuclear programme “with a view to seal a deal”, its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said. But US President Donald Trump must first agree there can be no “military option”, Araghchi said, and added that Iran would “never accept coercion”. He...
Elon Musk has called President Donald Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, a “moron” over comments he made about his electric vehicle firm, Tesla. Musk – who is also a member of the Trump administration – also said Navarro was “dumber than a sack of bricks” in posts on his social media platform X. It was...
Ukrainian forces have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting for the Russian army in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The Ukrainian president said intelligence suggested the number of Chinese soldiers in Russia’s army is “much higher than two”. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said that Chinese troops fighting on Ukrainian...
At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa’s oldest national park, its director has said. Photos shared by the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo show the motionless animals floating along the Ishasha River. Park officials say they first started appearing last week. The...
The number of state executions around the world has reached its highest level in ten years, a new report by Amnesty International has said. More than 1,500 recorded executions took place in 2024 with Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounting for a combined 1,380 and the United States for 25, the charity found. Despite this...
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faced-off with his election rival Peter Dutton in their first debate before the 3 May federal election vote. Cost of living issues dominated Tuesday night’s debate, organised by Sky News and The Daily Telegraph, and the two leaders were also asked about US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Opinion polls have...
Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News National Police Rescue workers have freed dozens of people from the collapsed building At least 13 people have died after a roof collapsed in a nightclub in the Dominican Republic. Many more are injured and rescue workers are still working to free people from the rubble. It is not yet clear...
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The heads of six UN agencies have appealed to world leaders to act urgently to make sure food and supplies get to Palestinians in Gaza, where Israel has stopped letting in deliveries for more than a month. A joint statement said Palestinians were “trapped, bombed and starved again” with supplies “piling up” at crossing points....
Yvette Tan, Annabelle Liang and Kelly Ng Getty Images Xi Jinping has shown no signs that he will blink first in the tariff standoff with the US The trade war between the world’s two biggest economies shows no signs of slowing down – Beijing has vowed to “fight to the end” hours after US President...