Twenty-six people have died and several others have been injured after gunmen opened fire on a group of domestic tourists visiting a popular beauty spot in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday. The attack took place in Pahalgam, a picturesque town in the Himalayas often described as the “Switzerland of India”. There is a shutdown across the … Read more
Former Australia batter Keith Stackpole has died at the age of 84. The right-handed opener from Victoria played 43 Tests between 1966 and 1974, scoring 2,807 runs at an average of 37.42, including seven centuries. Stackpole also played in the first ever one-day international, picking up three wickets with his leg-spin against England at the … Read more
Nine people have been killed after a Russian drone hit a bus transporting workers in Ukraine. The attack occurred on Wednesday morning in the south-central city of Marhanets. Serhiy Lysak, regional chief of Dnipropetrovsk, said at least 30 people were injured, adding that “the number of victims is constantly growing”. The attack comes as diplomats … Read more
A wildfire saw residents flee their homes as the flames spread in Ocean County, New Jersey. About 3,000 people were placed under mandatory evacuation on Tuesday evening, with 1,300 structures threatened, fire officials said. Several major highways in the path of the fire were also closed. No causalities have been reported, while the cause of … Read more
US President Donald Trump says he has “no intention of firing” Jerome Powell after repeatedly criticising the Federal Reserve Chair. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump added he would like Powell to more proactively cut interest rates. Last week, the president intensified his of criticism of Powell, calling him “a major loser”. That sparked a … Read more
The Canadian general election is around the corner after a campaign dominated by the US-Canada relationship, including repeated remarks by the US president about making Canada the 51st state. The BBC has asked voters across the country what it means to be Canadian – and what makes the country different from the US.
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Getty Images Pope Francis waves to well wishers after his mass in Tacloban in 2015 Lashed by an off-season typhoon, Pope Francis stepped out on a rain-soaked makeshift stage in front of hundreds of thousands of weeping pilgrims in the central Philippines. Organisers had warned him to cancel the 2015 open air mass in Tacloban … Read more
A team of Democratic lawmakers have met with two foreign students who are currently in immigration detention in Louisiana as the White House seeks to deport them. The group visited two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facilities where former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student at Tufts University in … Read more
Yolande Knell BBC Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem Reuters Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says more than 51,200 Palestinians have been killed At al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Alam Hirzallah resigns himself to a grim task: registering the deaths of the wife and two children of his grieving cousin. His family brought the bodies here on an … Read more