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Bernd Debusmann Jr & Merlyn Thomas BBC News & BBC Verify Watch: ‘I don’t control her’, says Trump on support from Laura Loomer Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is in the headlines once again after reports that she was behind the recent firing of top National Security Council officials by President Donald Trump. Ms Loomer … Read more
Getty Images Prince Andrew’s involvement with an alleged Chinese spy came at a time his chief aide and other royals believed his reputation was “irrecoverable”. Previously secret documents detail how ex-advisor Dominic Hampshire saw Yang Tengbo as Andrew’s “only light at the end of the tunnel” after his Newsnight interview in 2019. The documents also … Read more
Tiffany Wertheimer BBC News APOPO Five-year-old Ronin has helped Cambodians reclaim land that was once avoided for fear of landmines A landmine-detecting rat in Cambodia has set a new world record to become the first rodent to uncover more than 100 mines and other deadly war remnants. Ronin, an African giant pouched rat, has uncovered … Read more
More than 3,000 people were killed by last week’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake, Myanmar’s military junta has said. Hundreds more people are missing and the toll is expected to rise. Rescuers are still unable to reach parts of the country devastated by the quake. As the BBC’s Nick Beake explains, the BBC has been reporting from … Read more
On Thursday at least 27 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a school-turned-shelter in northern Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The Israel Defense Forces said it was targeting “prominent terrorists” inside a Hamas command and control centre in the area. BBC Verify’s Jake Horton explains what we know about the … Read more
A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has killed 12 people and left dozens of others wounded, local officials say. The head of the local defence council, Oleksandr Vilkul, said a ballistic missile had landed in the centre of a residential area. Two of the dead were children, he added. … Read more
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with two new criminal charges including sex trafficking and engaging in prostitution, just a month before he is set to go on trial in New York. The new accusations, made public on Friday in a Manhattan court, include allegations of more recent criminal offences and note that a second … Read more
A Nigerian man has told the BBC how he managed to survive an attack on his hunting party that left 16 of his companions dead, and shocked the nation. The group of young men, mostly in their 20s, was travelling in the back of a truck when they were stopped by vigilantes. “They asked us … Read more
Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor Reuters If I was writing a Russian language course for 2025, Lesson One would definitely contain the phrase for rollercoaster: Amerikanskiye gorki. It means, literally, American Hills. How appropriate. After all, with President Donald Trump now operating the ride, and Vladimir Putin pressing some of the buttons, US-Russian relations have become … Read more
Lucy Williamson BBC Middle East correspondent EPA Israel has repeatedly carried out air strikes on Syrian bases since the fall of Assad A growing confrontation between Israel and Turkey over influence in Syria is posing a serious challenge for Syria’s fragile new government. On Wednesday night, Israel bombed several military targets in Syria, including two … Read more