Month: October 2025

Hamas has recalled about 7,000 members of its security forces to reassert control over areas of Gaza recently vacated by Israeli troops, according to local sources. The Palestinian group also appointed five new governors all with military backgrounds, some of whom previously commanded brigades in its armed wing. The mobilisation order was reportedly issued via […]

Four people have been killed and 12 others injured, four critically, after a mass shooting in the US state of Mississippi. The shooting happened at around midnight on the main street in Leland, 120 miles (190km) north-east of the state capital Jackson, the city’s mayor John Lee told the BBC’s US partner CBS. Four of […]

At least 60 people have been killed in a drone strike at a displacement shelter in El-Fasher, a besieged Sudanese city on the brink of collapse. The resistance committee for El-Fasher, made up of local citizens and activists, said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit Dar al-Arqam camp. located within a university, with two […]

Hamas is pressing Israel to include prominent Palestinians in a prisoner-release list – part of a ceasefire deal that will also see hostages returned from Gaza. Hamas’s insistence comes after the Israeli justice ministry published the names of 250 prisoners to be freed, but excluded seven high-profile prisoners, including Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat. The […]

North Korea has unveiled its latest intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the ruling party. Named the Hwasong-20, its size suggests that it could carry multiple nuclear warheads. The isolated state has continued to expand its nuclear arsenal in recent years, causing concern […]

Aerial footage shows devastation after blast at explosives manufacturer in Tennessee Eighteen people are missing after a blast at a military explosives manufacturing facility in Tennessee on Friday. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said one person initially believed to be on site had been located at home. Four or five people were taken to a […]

Watch: Video from Veracruz state shows widespread devastation At least 27 people have died and others are missing, according to authorities, after floods in Mexico triggered landslides and swept away homes, vehicles and bridges. Heavy rainfall on Thursday and Friday caused rivers to burst their banks. Hidalgo in east Mexico was one of the worst […]

First Lady Melania Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to her letter of concern about the child victims of the Russia-Ukraine war. She made the announcement on Friday, saying that after an “open channel of communication” with Putin, Ukranian children displaced in the war had been reunited with families. The First Lady’s “peace letter” […]

The Atacama desert in Chile sits long and lean, sandwiched between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The desert’s extreme aridity makes it one of the clearest places on Earth to view the night sky and is famous for being home to the largest radio telescope in the world. But the usually barren landscape […]

Bernd Debusmann Jrat the White House Reuters All smiles – Stubb and Trump There was no small talk required to break the ice between these two leaders who have become unlikely friends. Instead, it was real ice breakers – 9,000-tonne hulking ships – that sealed a deal between Donald Trump and Finland’s President Alexander Stubb, […]