Rachel Looker BBC News, Washington Reuters Starlink provides high-speed internet to remote areas such as war zones Secretary of State Marco Rubio and tech billionaire Elon Musk have had a contentious exchange with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in a series of X posts on Sunday over the use of Musk’s Starlink satellite system in … Read more
Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has been barred from participating in May’s presidential election rerun by the country’s Central Electoral Bureau. In December, Romania’s constitutional court annulled the first round of the vote – in which he came first – after intelligence revealed Russia had been involved in 800 TikTok accounts backing him. The bureau … Read more
Israel ordered all of Gaza’s electricity supply to be cut off on Sunday in an effort to pressure Hamas into releasing the remaining Israeli hostages held in the territory. Energy minister Eli Cohen’s announcement came a week after Israel cut off all aid supplies to the territory, which has a population of more than two … Read more
Reuters A journalist targeted by a Russian spy ring said it had a list of “assassination methods” to kill him that was “beyond any imagination”. Christo Grozev told the BBC that one planned method was to bludgeon him to death, and another involved using a “suicide bomber”. The Bulgarian, who has published several exposés on … Read more
Kevin Sharkey Dublin reporter Oireachtas Gould said he “utterly rejects” the claims A Sinn Féin member of the Dáil (Irish parliament) has confirmed that he has been questioned by gardaí (Irish police) over financial issues at a company where he previously worked. Thomas Gould, a TD for Cork North Central, has issued a statement saying … Read more
Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who tried to occupy a church that was recently given a substantial donation by President William Ruto. The gift to the Jesus Winner Ministry in the Roysambu suburb of Nairobi of 20m shillings ($155,000; £120,000) drew criticism from some young Kenyans struggling with the high … Read more
Lina Sinjab BBC Middle East correspondent Reporting fromDamascus, Syria Reuters Syrians gather in the capital Damascus to protest against the killing of civilians and security forces in recent days Syria’s interim leader has appealed for unity, as violence and revenge killings continued in areas loyal to ousted former leader Bashar al-Assad on Sunday. Hundreds of … Read more
The US Secret Service shot a man outside the White House early on Sunday after an “armed confrontation”, the service said in a statement. It had earlier received a tip-off from local police about a “suicidal individual who may be travelling to Washington DC from Indiana”, it said. Its officers approached a man matching that … Read more
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has offered a reward of $5m (£4m) for help arresting three leaders of a rebel group which has seized much of the east of the country this year. Corneille Nangaa, a former head of DR Congo’s electoral commission, now leads the Congo River Alliance, which includes the M23 rebel … Read more
In Trump’s first speech to US congress since returning to power, he said the US will cut aid to Lesotho and that it is an African nation “nobody has ever heard of”. The BBC took to the streets of the city’s capital, Maseru, to get people’s reactions. Produced and edited by Priya Sippy