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...
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...
EPA Casualties from the air strikes in Gaza City, including children, were brought to al-Ahli hospital At least 27 Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a school in northern Gaza that was serving as a shelter for displaced families, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Dozens more were wounded when the Dar...
At least four people have died and two are missing after an explosion at a mine in northern Spain, officials say. The blast happened at the Cerredo mine in Degaña, Asturias, some 450km (278 miles) north-west of Madrid around 09:30 local time (08:30 BST). At least three others were injured, according to local emergency services,...
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Monday in separate strikes, bringing the total number of Palestinian journalists killed to at least 208 since October 7, 2023, according to a count by Gaza officials. Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was killed along with his wife and child when Israel struck his...
Israel has resumed its heavy bombing of civilians in Gaza, killing at least 404 Palestinians over the course of a single day. The attacks are a major violation — and potentially unilateral ending — of the already-fragile ceasefire and captive release deal. On Tuesday, Israel dropped a huge number of bombs across Gaza without any...