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Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri has been freed from a Texas detention centre after he was arrested as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on activists across college campuses. A federal judge ordered the release of Mr Suri, who was a postdoctoral fellow at the prestigious Washington DC institution on a student visa. An … Read more
Yogita Limaye BBC News Reporting fromEastern Ukraine BBC Some soldiers like Kozak believe too many people have been killed to hand over land to Russia Big plumes of smoke are visible on a screen that’s providing a live feed from Ukrainian drones hovering over the outskirts of the eastern city of Pokrovsk, one of the … Read more
Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Icelandic boyband VÆB were the first act to perform on the Eurovision stage this year Thirty-five seconds. That’s all the time you get to change the set at Eurovision. Thirty-five seconds to get one set of performers off the stage and put the next ones in the right place. … Read more
Barbara Plett Usher BBC News Reuters Port Sudan, which was once considered a relatively safe city, has been hit by a series of drone attacks targeting key infrastructure Paramilitary fighters appear to have opened a new phase in Sudan’s civil war after being driven from the capital, in a move which some experts have described … Read more
R&B singer Casandra Ventura, known as Cassie, gave her second day of testimony as the prosecution’s key witness in the federal sex-trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs. Ventura detailed beatings and sexual violence she says she experienced during the relationship and described the toll it took on her mental and physical health. The BBC’s Nada … Read more
Nikhil Inamdar, BBC News, London & Archana Shukla, BBC News, Mumbai BBC Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a $1bn (£756m) bailout to Pakistan – a move that drew sharp disapproval from India as military hostilities between the nuclear-armed neighbours flared, before a … Read more
Benedict Garman, Matt Murphy & Merlyn Thomas BBC Verify BBC Israel is preparing a series of sites in Gaza that could be used as distribution centres for humanitarian aid in a controversial new plan, satellite images show. The Israeli government suspended food and medicine deliveries into Gaza in March. Ministers said the move, which has … Read more
Israel has issued one of the most sweeping evacuation orders for civilians in Gaza yet seen in this war. Large swathes of Gaza City, a conurbation already partially destroyed by bombing, have been declared unsafe, the residents taking shelter there told to leave for their own safety ahead of “intense strikes” by the Israel Defense … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not travel to Turkey for peace talks on the war in Ukraine, despite calls from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky for him to attend. Russia’s delegation at Thursday’s talks in Istanbul will instead be headed by presidential aide Vladimir Medinksy, according to a Kremlin statement. Zelensky had previously said he would attend … Read more
A hotline supposed to connect the Pentagon with local air traffic controllers in Washington DC has been “inoperable” since 2022, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official has testified. At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, FAA officials said they only learned of the problem this month after controllers at Ronald Reagan national airport had to wave … Read more