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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says North Korea has built a new two-storey uranium enrichment facility at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex. The new building is said to be capable of housing up to twenty-eight centrifuge cascades, which are used to enrich uranium. The nuclear watchdog’s director, Rafael Grossi, called the continuing production of […]

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has clashed with AfD leader Alice Weidel in parliament, calling her party a “destructive force” with a migration policy that amounts to “ethnic cleansing” for skilled workers. Merz was addressing the Bundestag in the aftermath of the anti-immigration party’s sweeping victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt where it won almost […]

Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first leader after the city returned to Chinese rule, has died at the age of 89. The former shipping scion took over the reins from the last British Governor Chris Patten in July 1997 when the UK handed Hong Kong back to China, ending more than 150 years of British control. […]

Warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse Meta ran hundreds of paid ads with artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse imagery, including several in India, over the past 10 months, a new report by US-based campaigners has found. The report comes two months after the Indian government ordered Meta to remove all ads and content promoting […]

Eagleson described the situation on Guantanamo as “a mess” and said he had decided not to attend any of the pre-trial proceedings there. “My overall feeling is a sense of betrayal from the US government and a sense of extreme frustration,” he said. “They’ve botched every single part of this trial.” With 25 years having […]

Israel’s response to London’s trade ban with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank shows how important this moment is.

The sanctions were launched alongside France and Canada, who in a joint statement with the UK said the action “marks a further turning point in our approach to protecting the two-state solution”. Settlements are illegal under international law, and there has been a rise in violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers in […]

Fourteen suspected people smugglers have gone on trial in Paris for their role in the worst ever small boats disaster in the English Channel. In November 2021, at least 30 men, women and children drowned when their motorised dinghy deflated and started taking on water halfway between France and the UK. The 14 defendants – […]

The BBC’s Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from Ma’ale Adumim – an existing Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, overlooking Israel’s proposed E1 site. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, speaking to Parliament on Tuesday, announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank “to deter settlement expansion” and “prevent the development of E1”. […]

A 78-year-old British widow has told the BBC she is struggling to eat or sleep as the Swedish government threatens to deport her over a late post-Brexit residence application. Joyce Thomas, a retired nurse, moved to Sweden 22 years ago with her husband, who passed away from cancer three years ago. This came after they […]