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The United Nations agency for children says that at least 322 children are reported to have been killed since Israel launched a renewed offensive in Gaza two weeks ago. Unicef said at least 609 other children were reportedly wounded during the same period. “The ceasefire in Gaza provided a desperately needed lifeline for Gaza’s children … Read more
The BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher has gained access into Sudan’s capital Khartoum, days after the city was recaptured by government forces. Most of the city is shattered, with the presidential palace and international airport in ruins. The UN says more than three and a half million people have fled Khartoum since the beginning of the … Read more
Trevor Lock, the policeman who was taken hostage in a siege on the Iranian embassy in 1980, has died aged 85, his daughter has confirmed. PC Lock was freed along with 24 other hostages after a six-day stand-off between members of a dissident Iranian group and the SAS. It later emerged he had tackled the … Read more
Hundreds of federal health workers early on Tuesday learned their jobs had been cut, with many turned away at their office building doors, as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plunged ahead on a mass restructuring. Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr announced last week that 10,000 employees would be let go, and … Read more
EPA Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the police of holding the two men as “hostages” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced an investigation into possible links between his aides and Qatar as a “witch hunt”, after he gave testimony to police. An adviser and a former spokesman were arrested on Monday over alleged … Read more
Canadian member of parliament Paul Chiang has quit as a Liberal Party candidate over comments he made suggesting a political rival should be turned over to the Chinese consulate in return for a bounty. Tay, who is running for the Conservatives in the 28 April federal election, is one of a number of overseas activists … Read more
President Trump announced on Monday that he planned to relax limits on pollution from cars, saying that the move wouldn’t “mean a damn bit of difference to the environment.” But decades of science show that the pollution from automobile tailpipes has harmed the environment and public health, from the days when leaded gasoline sent neurotoxins … Read more
Tourists and residents of a town in south-west Iceland have been evacuated after a volcanic eruption. The volcano is close to the fishing town of Grindavik and the famous Blue Lagoon spa, which is a popular attraction. A small number of people refused to evacuate the town, local media reported. The volcano has been spewing … Read more
Barbara Plett Usher BBC News, Khartoum Barbara Plett Usher / BBC The battered heart of Khartoum lies eerily quiet now, after weeks of intense urban combat in the Sudanese capital. We entered the city just days after Sudan’s army recaptured it from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the culmination of a six-month offensive through … Read more
The body of a fourth US soldier has been found, a week after going missing in Lithuania. The soldier was part of a team of four who were conducting military drills in a large armoured vehicle when they disappeared near the city of Pabrade. The vehicle – a M88A2 Hercules – and the bodies of … Read more