Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Guy De Launey Balkans correspondent Getty Images President Aleksandar Vucic rallied his supporters in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade Tens of thousands of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s supporters have held a rally in Belgrade following months of unrest across the country. A monitoring organisation said around 55,000 people had gathered in front of … Read more
Getty Images The Indian pot belly – once a badge of prosperity, indulgence and aging respectability – has long been a target of satire and social commentary. In literature, it quietly signalled comfort or complacency; in films, it became a shorthand for the lazy official, gluttonous uncle, or a corrupt policeman. Cartoons exaggerated it to … Read more
A man who was mistakenly deported from the state of Maryland to a mega-jail in El Salvador is “alive and secure”, a US official has told a judge. The update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts came days after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration should facilitate his release and return to the US. … Read more
Vitaliy Shevchenko Russia editor, BBC Monitoring Getty Images A file photo shows a woman and child walking past a poster proclaiming “For Russia! For the President! For Sevastopol!” “Russians are trying to ban everything Ukrainian here: language, and also traditions. Even Ukrainian holidays are forbidden.” This is the sorrow and fear of a rarely heard … Read more
A Liberal Democrat MP has spoken of her “shock” after being barred from entering Hong Kong this week. Wera Hobhouse said she flew to the Chinese region on Thursday to visit her newborn grandson but she was detained at the airport, questioned, and then deported on the first flight home. The MP for Bath is … Read more
Tanzania’s main opposition party has been barred from participating in this year’s election, days after its leader was charged with treason. Ramadhani Kailima, director of elections at the Independent National Elections Commission, said that Chadema had failed to sign a code of conduct document that was due on Saturday, meaning the party was disqualified from … Read more
Natalie Sherman BBC News Reporting fromNew York, New York BBC Days after Richard Medina went looking for a smartphone to beat new tariffs, the US announced the devices would be exempt from the duties When his camera stopped working on his iPhone recently, New Yorker Richard Medina didn’t waste any time. With the threat of … Read more
Israel’s defence minister has announced the military will soon “expand vigorously” its offensive throughout most of Gaza. Israel Katz also said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had completed the takeover of a “security zone” in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, separating the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis. Israel’s military also issued evacuation … Read more
US President Donald Trump’s administration has exempted smartphones and computers from reciprocal tariffs, including the 125% levies imposed on Chinese imports. US Customs and Border Patrol published a notice late on Friday explaining the goods would be excluded from Trump’s 10% global tariff on most countries and the much larger Chinese import tax. The move … Read more
A notorious bandit kingpin and 100 of his suspected followers have been killed in a joint military operation in north-west Nigeria, authorities say. Gwaska Dankarami was said to have been a high-value target who reportedly served as second-in-command to an Islamic State-linked leader. The alleged gang leader had been hiding in the Munumu Forest, with … Read more