Zhara Simpson BBC News, South West BBC Plymouth Armed Forces Day organisers said the event was an opportunity to support the whole military community from past to present Thousands of people will be heading to Plymouth Hoe to celebrate Armed Forces Day. The event, packed full of family fun, begins at 10:00 until 17:15 BST...
Laura Gozzi and Zhanna Bezpiatchuk BBC News, London and Kyiv Getty Images A soldiers prepares a cannon to fire and load it with shells in the Sumy region of Ukraine, bordering Russia The head of Ukraine’s army, Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi, has said his troops have stopped Russian advances in the northeastern border region of Sumy....
Israeli forces have killed more than 51 Palestinians and wounded many more after opening fire near an aid distribution site in southern Gaza, witnesses and rescuers say. The Hamas-run civil defence agency said Israeli troops fired on crowds near the aid site in Khan Younis. More than 200 people were reportedly injured. The Israeli military...
Israeli security forces operating in Gaza have recovered the bodies of two Israeli hostages, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. He named one of them as Yair (Yaya) Yaakov, a 59-year-old father of three who was killed inside his home at Kibbutz Nir Oz by Palestinian Islamic Jihad gunmen during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel...
Palestinians in Gaza say they were fired on once again as they headed to one of the aid distribution centres run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Monday. Witnesses said that for the first time they were fired on by Palestinian gunmen near the GHF site in the Tal al-Sultan area of...
Security camera footage shows the moment Israeli forces boarded a yacht that was carrying activists towards Gaza, to deliver humanitarian aid. The 12 activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, were detained and their boat, the Madleen, was towed to the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The Madleen’s journey was organised by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition,...
Feras Kilani BBC Arabic special correspondent BBC Feras Kilani stands in front of Syrian security forces in Damascus, two days before he was detained by Israeli forces to the south On the morning of 9 May, I was part of a BBC Arabic team which left the Syrian capital, Damascus, for the southern province of...
Around 150 service personnel from the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines (CTCRM) will march through Exeter city centre on Saturday 21 June to exercise the unit’s Freedom of the City. The march through Exeter will also mark the city’s celebration of Armed Forces Day, which is held a week earlier in Exeter. This year’s parade...
Sir Richard Knighton has been chosen as the next Chief of the Defence Staff, the UK’s most senior military officer role, the BBC understands. Sir Richard is set to replace Admiral Sir Tony Radakin who has been in the role since November 2021. He will be expected to oversee major reforms as the government bolsters...
Pupils have been ordered to stay inside after the buzzard swooped into a primary school playground in East London. Read full article at source...
Image Credit: WXIA A 30-year-old Black woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for three months against her family’s wishes because of the state’s “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion law. Adriana Smith was declared legally dead in February after a medical emergency caused her brain function to cease. Smith, a nurse, had been initially turned...
Did you vote for this? Because I ain’t gonna lie … I voted for this. For months, South Africa has tried to paint Israel as genocidal for fighting the war Hamas and the Gazans started on October 7. That began a rift with the US that has sharply accelerated since Donald Trump took office, who...
Armed Israeli security forces have forced the closure of three schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent home from the schools in Shuafat refugee camp just after classes began on Thursday morning. Unrwa’s Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, said Israeli authorities were denying children...
Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent Reporting fromNorthern Syria BBC General Security Forces personnel have been deployed in Latakia city One of the men accused of taking part in a wave of sectarian violence against Syria’s Alawite minority two months ago has told the BBC that he and other armed civilians who travelled to the area...
The Colombian government says 15 police officers and 12 soldiers have been killed over the past two weeks in targeted attacks it blames on armed groups. President Gustavo Petro accused the Gulf Clan criminal gang and other armed groups of targeting members of the security forces in revenge for the recent killing of several of...