Abdujalil Abdurasulov BBC News, Kyiv Emergency services of Sumy A Sumy region resident is evacuated from her village Russian forces are making gains in the Ukrainian north-eastern region of Sumy – a development that may be linked to Moscow’s attempts to create “buffer zones” along the border, Ukrainian regional authorities have said. The head of...
Simona Foltyn BBC World Service Reporting fromIraqi Kurdistan Phil Caller For generations Sherwen Sergeli and his family have made a living from his village’s land, but that’s now under threat Nestled in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan sits the picturesque village of Sergele. For generations villagers have made a living growing pomegranates, almonds and peaches...
Remember the halcyon days after the Los Angeles fire–you know, the one started by arsonists armed with climate change propane torches and power lines kept in disrepair–when the governor of California and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, promised that they would cut through all the red tape and get rebuilding going quickly. Good...
One soldier said they’re directed to make the buffer zone look like the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. The Israeli military is now occupying over half of the land area of Gaza after having massively expanded the “buffer zone” spanning the entirety of Gaza’s border and systematically destroyed everything in it, as Israeli...
Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire Livia Tossici-Bolt was found guilty of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023 A woman convicted of breaching an abortion clinic protection zone has said she will continue her “fight for free speech”. Livia Tossici-Bolt, 64, was given a two-year conditional discharge and ordered...
A woman at the centre of a free speech controversy involving the US government has been found guilty of breaching a “buffer zone” outside a Bournemouth abortion clinic. Livia Tossici-Bolt was convicted at Poole Magistrates’ Court of two charges of breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order on two days in March 2023. The 64-year-old anti-abortion...
Getty Images More than 2,700 people were killed in a devastating earthquake that hit Myanmar on 28 March In the immediate aftermath of an earthquake, there is a 72-hour “golden window” when those trapped under rubble are most likely to survive. But in the 72 hours after a 7.7 magnitude quake struck Myanmar on Friday,...