A Budapest Pride march is expected to go ahead on Saturday, defying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s legal threats against LGBTQ rights activists. The march organisers hope for a record attendance this year, despite mounting pressure from nationalist conservative politicians and police to stop any display of pro-LGBTQ material. Police have issued a ban, in...
Georgina Barnes BBC News, South West BBC The government announced on Tuesday that the creation of new mayor roles would be discontinued The Mayor for Plymouth (MfP) campaign says it will take the government to high court over an announcement there will no be a directly-elected mayor for the city. The government announced on Tuesday...
Lisa Murkowski. It almost hurts to type that, which is how much I cannot abide the vile, backstabbing, vicious, sore-loser gorgon from Alaska. And it’s worse because everyone knows the daughter of a former Alaska governor and senator knows she wasn’t meant to be in the Senate at all. The candidate who lost a GOP...
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images The BBC is threatening to take legal action against an artificial intelligence (AI) firm whose chatbot the corporation says is reproducing BBC content “verbatim” without its permission. The BBC has written to Perplexity, which is based in the US, demanding it immediately stops using BBC content, deletes any it...
EPA People secure boats on a beach in Acapulco, Mexico as Hurricane Erick approaches Hurricane Erick is expected to strengthen rapidly into a major Category 3 storm, before making landfall on Mexico’s Pacific coast on Thursday, Mexico’s civil protection agency has said. The storm, already a Category 2 hurricane, is likely to bring “potentially destructive...
Nikhil Inamdar BBC News, London Archana Shukla BBC News, Ahmedabad Getty Images Relatives and neighbours of 14-year-old Akash Patni, one of the crash victims, mourn as they wait for his body Days after the devastating Air India-171 crash killed at least 270 people, investigators from across the world are putting their heads together to find...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has responded to President Donald Trump’s call for Iran’s surrender with a threat. Earlier this morning, he broadcast a televised address, and his X account posted a series of tweets directly targeting the United States, warning that if Trump becomes directly involved, there will be severe consequences. The US President...
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News Global Witness The Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia is sometimes referred to as the ‘Amazon of the Seas’ Stark images, captured from a drone by environmental campaigners and shared with the BBC, appear to show how nickel mining has stripped forests and polluted waters in one of the most...
Sakshi Venkatraman and Kayla Epstein Reporting fromReporting from New York court Jane Rosenberg/Reuters In a courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs watches as a prosecutor questions “Jane” during the rapper’s sex trafficking trial. The judge presiding over Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal trial has threatened to ban the disgraced music mogul from the courtroom for nodding and...
The Department of Education put out a press release today announcing that Columbia University is in violation of anti-discrimination laws and therefore fails to meet standards for accreditation. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today notified Middle States Commission on Higher Education (the Commission) that its member institution, Columbia University, is...
The UK government has threatened to sue former Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich to make sure the money from the club’s sale goes to Ukraine. The £2.5bn in proceeds have been frozen in a UK bank account since the sale, with Mr Abramovich sanctioned after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The...
Sarah Smith North America editor Getty Images Since returning to power, US President Donald Trump has wielded tariffs – or the threat of them – as his economic weapon of choice. He has slapped import duties against allies and adversaries alike, and raised their rates to staggeringly high levels, only to change his mind and...
The Freedom of the Press Foundation notified company executives that a settlement “could amount to a bribe.” If Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS News, settles a $20 billion lawsuit brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, it could face another lawsuit from a leading press freedom organization. The Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF),...
Getty Images President Donald Trump has said he is “recommending” imposing 50% tariffs on goods from the European Union being imported to the United States. “Our discussions with them are going nowhere!”, he said in a post on social media on Friday. The announcement marks an escalation of Trump’s trade war with the EU, which...
On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.” The order claimed “onerous Federal policies” have hindered domestic timber production and that expanding logging was a matter of protecting “national and economic security.” It ordered the secretary of the Interior and head of the U.S. Department of...