The 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 […]
Continue ReadingHeavy rains have caused devastation in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Homes were damaged and cars swept away as floodwaters entered several towns and cities in the region. There are no reports of any fatalities yet. The nearby state of Himachal Pradesh was also hit by intense rains, with at least three people reportedly […]
Continue ReadingJeremy BowenInternational editor Daniel Meron, Israel’s ambassador to the UN, says Israel “categorically rejects the libellous rant” The report is intended to be detailed and damning, presenting evidence it says shows that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It says that Israel has breached the Genocide Convention that was passed in 1948 by the newly […]
Continue ReadingSarah RainsfordSouthern and eastern Europe correspondent, Kyiv region Francesco Tosto/BBC Dmytro Khyliuk spent three and a half years in Russian captivity Since his release from a Russian prison, Dmytro Khyliuk has barely been off the phone. The Ukrainian journalist was detained by Russian forces in the first days of their full-scale invasion. Three and a […]
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