Jordan’s security services say they have arrested 16 people suspected of plotting attacks inside the country involving rockets and drones. The General Intelligence Department said the suspects had been under surveillance since 2021 and their plans were aimed at “targeting national security, sowing chaos and sabotage”. They involved possession of explosives and automatic weapons, the … Read more
Hamas says it has “lost contact” with the group of fighters holding an Israeli-American hostage captive in Gaza following an Israeli strike on their location. The 21-year-old soldier, Edan Alexander, has appeared in videos released by the group in recent days. Israel had asked for him to be released on day one of a new … Read more
Samira Hussain BBC News Reporting fromDhaka, Bangladesh BBC/Aamir Peerzada When investigators smashed through a hastily built wall, they uncovered a set of secret jail cells. It turned out to be a freshly bricked-up doorway – an attempt to hide what lurked behind. Inside, off a narrow hallway, were tiny rooms to the right and left. … Read more
PA Media A teenager has died after a single-vehicle crash involving a tractor in Carrigallen in County Leitrim. The incident on the R204 occurred at about 15:10 local time on Tuesday, according to Gardaí (Irish police). The male passenger of the tractor was later pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor, also … Read more
Getty Images Democrats and others have pushed for the Trump administration to bring Mr Ábrego García home – while a judge has ordered the government to “facilitate” his return Lawyers for the Justice Department faced a judge on Tuesday to provide updates on a Maryland father that Donald Trump’s administration mistakenly deported. Last month, the … Read more
A hairdresser from St Petersburg has been given a jail term of five years and two months on a charge of spreading fake news about the Russian army. Anna Alexandrova denied posting eight anti-war messages on social media, insisting the case was motivated by a squabble over land with a neighbour. Her neighbour told the … Read more
Former President Barack Obama is applauding Harvard University’s decision to refuse the White House’s demands that it change its policies or lose federal money, in his first social media post to criticise the Trump administration since at least Inauguration Day. President Donald Trump is freezing more than $2bn (£1.5bn) in federal funds for Harvard because … Read more
Laura Bicker China correspondent The BBC’s Laura Bicker: ”A number of businesses in limbo” in China, after US tariffs on imports “Trump is a crazy man,” says Lionel Xu, who is surrounded by his company’s mosquito repellent kits – many were once best sellers in Walmart stores in the United States. Now those products are … Read more
The Sudanese city of el-Fasher has been largely cut off from the outside world for a year as a result of the country’s civil war, which began two years ago. It is the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in Darfur against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Mostafa, Hafiza and Manahel are residents of the city … Read more
A man has appeared in court in the Republic of Ireland charged with intentionally or recklessly causing serious harm to a man who later died in his home in Killybegs, County Donegal, last weekend. The body of Eddie Friel, who was in his 60s, was found in his home in the Harbour View Drive estate … Read more