Shayan Sardarizadeh & Thomas Spencer BBC Verify BBC Satellite images have revealed new signs of damage to access routes and tunnels at Iran’s underground Fordo enrichment facility which was targeted by Israel on 23 June, a day after the US dropped bunker-buster bombs on the site. Previously unseen damage is also visible near tunnel entrances...
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Before all the images of smoldering cities, of hooded men tortured and beaten, and of bloodied bodies lying in the dust, there was Colin Powell holding up...
Billy Kenber Politics investigations correspondent Phillip Kemp Political reporter Getty Images On a cloudy Tuesday in September last year, Gawain Towler, a veteran press chief for Nigel Farage’s various political parties, was working in Reform UK’s central London offices when his phone went calling him into a meeting. He was being given the sack. The...
Kumar Malhotra, Joshua Cheetham & Shayan Sardarizadeh BBC Verify BBC Israeli strikes have damaged structures at two missile sites as well as an airport runway, satellite images have revealed. As Iran and Israel continue to launch strikes on each other’s territory, satellite imagery can give us an insight into what’s happening on the ground. It’s...
BBC pundits Fara Williams and Ellen White pick their favourite goal, player and manager from the 2024-25 season of the Women’s Super League. Read full article at source...
Jeremy Field/PA Female digger wasps can remember the location of their nests, among hundreds of others, experts have found Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, according to new research. Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to...
Graham Fraser Technology Reporter Getty Images About 1.2m people in the UK were affected by banking outages that happened on what was pay day for many earlier this year. The details have emerged in letters from Lloyds, TSB, Nationwide and HSBC to Dame Meg Hillier, the chair of the Commons Treasury Committee, which is looking...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox Earlier this year, doctors at Veterans Affairs hospitals in Pennsylvania sounded an alarm. Sweeping cuts imposed by the Trump administration, they told higher-ups in an...
Reuters Singer Rihanna has confirmed she is expecting her third baby while attending fashion’s biggest night of the year, the Met Gala in New York. Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Fenty, and her partner, rapper A$AP Rocky, already have two sons. A$AP Rocky thanked reporters who offered their congratulations on the red carpet. “It...
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Jarvis Cocker said the new music had been recorded over three weeks in the first half of 2024 Indie icons Pulp have announced a new album, More, and shared their first single in almost 24 years, called Spike Island. Speaking on BBC 6 Music, frontman Jarvis Cocker said the...
Getty Images Prince Andrew’s involvement with an alleged Chinese spy came at a time his chief aide and other royals believed his reputation was “irrecoverable”. Previously secret documents detail how ex-advisor Dominic Hampshire saw Yang Tengbo as Andrew’s “only light at the end of the tunnel” after his Newsnight interview in 2019. The documents also...
There’s a 10% tariff on the UK and 20% on the EU. Read full article at source...
Sima Kotecha Senior UK correspondent BBC Messages included jokes about someone who was said to be at risk of taking their life Leaked messages show prison staff at a Welsh prison laughing at violent encounters with inmates and making fun of self-harm incidents. In them, one staff member at privately run HMP Parc in Bridgend...
Severe wildfires have been spreading rapidly in South Korea. Ancient temples are among the buildings that have been destroyed and thousands of people have been evacuated. BBC Verify’s Nick Beake has been looking at how – and why – the fires spread so quickly and considering the impact they’re having. Produced by Mohamed Shalaby. Graphics...
Citibank was following requests from the Trump White House when it froze the accounts of several nonprofits last month. Recently disclosed court documents reveal that Citibank froze the accounts of several nonprofit organizations and state agencies in February in response to directives from multiple federal entities. These included the FBI, which cited ‘credible information’ of...