The leader of the controversial Unification Church has denied allegations that her organisation bribed South Korea’s former first lady with luxury gifts in exchange for business favours. Han Hak-ja flatly rejected claims that she directed the bribery when confronted by reporters as she emerged from nine hours of questioning at the prosecutor’s office. “No… Why […]
Continue ReadingLate-night host Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off air “indefinitely” by ABC over comments he made about the shooting of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. In his Monday night monologue, Kimmel said the “MAGA gang” was trying to score political points off Kirk’s killing, and mocked the president’s reaction to the shooting. The BBC’s Regan Morris […]
Continue ReadingGuy HedgecoeBusiness reporter, Porto de Sanabria, north-western Spain Guy Hedgecoe A firefighter plane drops water on a recent wildfire José Antonio Bruña, a honey producer, is standing on a hillside where he keeps his beehives near the small Spanish village of Porto de Sanabria. He points to the exact spot, a few hundred metres away […]
Continue ReadingKing Charles has hosted US President Donald Trump at Windsor Castle on the first full day of his UK state visit. The president and first lady took part in a series of ceremonies, including a carriage procession and a Red Arrows flypast. In central London – a fair way from the pomp and pageantry in […]
Continue ReadingIone WellsSouth America correspondent in Brasília and Leandro PrazeresBBC News Brasil Watch: Brazil’s Lula talks Trump, US tariffs and oil in BBC interview Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has told the BBC in an exclusive interview that he has “no relationship” with US President Donald Trump. Lula has frequently criticised Trump, but this […]
Continue ReadingRushdi AbualoufGaza correspondent, Istanbul Amir Levy/Getty Images Israeli tanks – like those pictured in this file photo – have been deployed into areas of Gaza City Local residents and eyewitnesses say dozens of Israeli tanks and military vehicles have pushed into a major residential district of Gaza City, on the second day of Israel’s ground […]
Continue ReadingThe European Commission has unveiled plans to restrict trade with Israel and impose sanctions on extremist ministers in its government, which – if adopted – would be the EU’s toughest response to the war in Gaza. The plans, trailed by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen last week, would suspend trade-related provisions of the EU–Israel […]
Continue ReadingThe wife of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he was killed by poisoning while serving a prison sentence in an Arctic penal colony in 2024. In a video shared on social media, Yulia Navalnaya said analysis of smuggled biological samples carried out by laboratories in two countries showed that her husband […]
Continue ReadingGunmen on motorbikes have shot dead 22 people, most of them attending a baptism ceremony, in an attack on a village in western Niger, reports say. A resident told the French news agency AFP that 15 people were killed at the ceremony in Tillabéri region, which borders Mali and Burkina Faso, before moving elsewhere and […]
Continue ReadingEPA Sheep walk among the dried-out bed of the Orontes River in Jisr al-Shughour, northern Syria The wheat fields outside Seqalbia, near the Syrian city of Hama, should be golden and heavy with grain. Instead, Maher Haddad’s 40 dunums (10 acres) are dry and empty, barely yielding a third of their usual harvest. “This year […]
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