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Nomsa Maseko in Bujumbura & Natasha Booty in London BBC News BBC President Évariste Ndayishimiye made the comments in an exclusive interview with the BBC Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye tells the BBC he has seen “credible intelligence” that Rwanda plans to attack his country, and that Rwanda had tried to launch a coup a decade … Read more

Five years ago, on 24 March 2020, India announced its first Covid lockdown to try and control a pandemic that would go on to take millions of lives across the world. Here is a look back at how three BBC journalists – Salman Ravi, Yogita Limaye and Vikas Pandey – covered the first and second … Read more

China has released five staff members of US due diligence firm Mintz Group, two years after they were detained as part of a crackdown on consulting firms working with foreign businesses. Their detention in March 2023 came at a time of heightened suspicion of foreign espionage in China and kicked off a wave of raids … Read more

Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service BBC Engineers from Gridless create makeshift computer labs to maintain their bitcoin mines The roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble down rapids. But there’s another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush – the unmistakable … Read more

Mahjooba Nowrouzi BBC Afghan Service, Kabul BBC Girls being taught at the Shaikh Abdul Qadr Jilani madrassa Amina will never forget the moment her childhood changed. She was just 12 years old when she was told she could no longer go to school like boys. The new school year began on Saturday in Afghanistan but … Read more

South Korean carmaking giant Hyundai has unveiled $21bn (£16.3bn) of investment in the US. The plan includes a new $5.8bn steel plant in the southern state of Louisiana. Hyundai also said it will expand its American vehicle production and invest billions of dollars in new technology including autonomous driving and artificial intelligence (AI). The announcement … Read more

Getty Images Hakamata, 89, was found guilty in 1968 of killing his boss, his boss’s wife and their two children, but was acquitted last year after a retrial A Japanese man who spent nearly 50 years on death row before he was acquitted of murder will be compensated 217 million yen ($1.45m), in what his … Read more

South Korean rescuers are searching for a motorcyclist who fell into a large sinkhole that opened up on a road in the capital Seoul. The man was riding his motorbike in the Gangdong district when he was swallowed by the sinkhole at 6:29pm local time (9:29am GMT). Rescuers have so far found a mobile phone … Read more

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has reported annual revenue for 2024 that has leapfrogged rival Tesla. The Shenzhen-based firm says revenue rose by 29% to come in at 777 billion yuan ($107bn; £83bn), boosted by sales of its hybrid vehicles. This topped the $97.7bn reported by Elon Musk’s Tesla. BYD has also just launched a … Read more

Sebastian Usher Middle East correspondent Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Hamdan Ballal poses with Rachel Szor after they won Best Documentary Feature Film for No Other Land at the Oscars A Palestinian Oscar winner has been detained in the occupied West Bank following an outbreak of violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians, activists say. … Read more