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The US has finalised an agreement that will allow Qatar to build an air force facility in Idaho, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced. He said the facility – where pilots from the Gulf state would be trained to fly F-15 fighter jets – would be established at the Mountain Home Airbase in the […]

Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent, Jerusalem and BBC Visual Journalism team Getty Images A ceasefire has come into effect for the war in Gaza, after the Israeli government approved a US-brokered deal with Hamas in negotiations that had the personal involvement of US President Donald Trump. The full text of the agreement has not been made […]

This Nobel Prize win for Maria Corina Machado is being hugely welcomed by the opposition in Venezuela. The hope is it will draw renewed international attention to their cause. Responding to the prize, Machado directly called for help from the man who had hoped he would win it. “Today more than ever we count on […]

Sammy AwamiBBC Africa, Antananarivo Sammy Awami / BBC Razanasoa Edmondine looking at the photos on her phone of her new grandson Razanasoa Edmondine still looks shell-shocked as she recalls the death of her one-month-old grandson, killed by police tear gas in protests that have rocked Madagascar over the last two weeks. “It was just a […]

Burkina Faso’s military government has refused to take in deportees from the US as Washington suspended issuing visas in the West African nation. Minister of Foreign Affairs Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré questioned if the embassy’s decision was “blackmail” after he said he had rejected an American proposal to take in migrants from third countries. Donald Trump’s […]

Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of violating Kabul’s “sovereign territory”, describing it as an “unprecedented, violent, and provocative act”. The allegation comes after two loud blasts were heard in the city late on Thursday. Pakistan had also bombed a civilian market in the border province of Patika, in Afghanistan’s south-east, the Taliban Defence Ministry […]

Zimbabwean opposition lawmaker Desire Moyo has died after the vehicle he was travelling in hit an elephant, local media report. The accident happened in the early hours of Friday morning while Mr Moyo and four other MPs were travelling along the Bulawayo-Gweru highway, according to state-owned broadcaster ZBC. He died instantly while his fellow lawmakers […]

A family of ducks brought traffic on Perth’s Kwinana Freeway to a standstill during Friday’s morning rush hour. Main Roads, Western Australia’s motorway transport agency, posted the footage on X warning motorists to “be aware and be alert”. “If you see ducks, ducklings or wildlife attempting to cross a freeway or road, stay in your […]

Police in Belgium have arrested three people suspected of plotting an attack on the country’s prime minister, Bart de Wever. The alleged plot was described by prosecutors as a “jihadist-inspired terrorist attack” on the PM and other politicians. Authorities found a suspected improvised explosive device and evidence the suspects were planning to use a drone […]

Up to 200 US troops already based in the Middle East will be moved to Israel to help monitor the ceasefire in Gaza, according to US officials. The US military will establish a multinational taskforce in Israel, known as a civil-military coordination centre, which is likely to include troops from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the […]