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The BBC’s Anthony Zurcher breaks down how the US president’s connections have brought about a breakthrough moment for the Middle East.

A life-sized holographic police officer has been installed in central Seoul in a bid to deter crime. The hologram is projected every two minutes from 19:00 to 22:00 in Jeo-dong Park, an area which is busy at night with nearby bars. Police say crime rates in the area have dropped approximately 22 percent since the […]

Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent and Tom BatemanState Department correspondent Getty Images Shoulder to shoulder – Trump and Netanyahu At the time, Israel’s air strike against the Hamas negotiating team in Qatar seemed like yet another escalation that pushed the prospect of peace further away. The attack on 9 September violated the sovereignty of an American […]

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News Washington Post via Getty Images Naked mole rats live for up to 40 years, compared to about three years for a mouse They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life. A new study of the […]

A South African farm worker has described to a court how he was forced by his boss to feed the bodies of two black women to pigs in an attempt to hide evidence after they were shot. Adrian De Wet, 21, said he was told to throw the bodies inside a pig enclosure, explaining that […]

The US National Basketball Association (NBA) will return to China this week for the first time since 2019. Two pre-season games are scheduled for Friday and Sunday between the Brooklyn Nets and the Phoenix Suns at an arena in Macau’s Venetian casino and hotel. China effectively froze the NBA out six years ago when one […]

GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO/EPA/Shutterstock Gisèle Pelicot told the court in Nîmes this week she was the “only victim” of rape A court in southern France has increased by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot. The 72-year-old retired grandmother was drugged unconscious by her then-husband Dominique for […]

Tesla is being investigated by the US government after reports the firm’s self-driving cars had broken traffic laws, including driving on the wrong side of the road and not stopping for red lights. It said it was aware of 58 reports where the electric cars had committed such violations, according to a filing from the […]

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has said that a boat recently bombed by the US was “Colombian with Colombian citizens inside”, an allegation the White House called “baseless”. The US has struck at least four vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, killing 21 people. The US government has said the strikes in international waters were […]

Jeremy BowenInternational Editor BBC Even for Donald Trump, a president who revels in his place at the centre of world events, it was a dramatic moment. The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio interrupted a televised meeting Trump was chairing in Washington DC on Wednesday. He handed over a message that the President needed to […]