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The violence has stirred public anger and galvanised India’s opposition, posing a challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Modi has not commented directly on the protests or engaged with the protesters, but on Thursday, he posted a statement on X that is being seen as an attempt to reach …

Around 12,000 people have been evacuated from the south-west of France as the country battles ongoing wildfires days after two firefighters died near Bordeaux airport, French media reported. The Gironde region government said more than 2,000 hectares (4,000 acres) of land have been destroyed. The use of internal combustion and …

Yemen’s Houthis say they have attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea as the US launched its 12th consecutive night of strikes on Iran. Iranian state media said two people had been killed in the US strikes on Wednesday, and a tanker caught fire in an explosion in …

Canada’s dairy industry policy is among the most politically sacrosanct in the country. It has also long been a thorn in the side of Donald Trump. Now, Canada’s dairy supply management system is back in the spotlight after the US president singled it out as one of three main irritants …

In New York City’s Times Square, one of the busiest pedestrian intersections in the world, photographs of Wang Wang come up on a gigantic digital screen every 35 minutes. One of the captions reads: “She was loved. She wanted to live. She should still be here.” Similar billboards have been …

Supporting small and medium-sized businesses has been among Vladimir Putin’s declared priorities even in wartime, and framed as a backbone of resilience in the face of Western sanctions. But the Russian state has been unable to shield the sector from the war’s impact, and there have been several shocks to …

Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa. The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying …

The BBC’s Sarah Smith explains the implications of the landmark cooperation agreement between both countries. BBC News

On 21 July 2025, a training aircraft took off from a Bangladesh Air Force Base in Dhaka at around 13:00 local time (07:00 GMT) and crashed soon after in the Uttara neighbourhood. Images from the scene hours after the crash showed scores of emergency service workers sorting through charred rubble …

On Monday, 20-year-old Chhavi (name changed) paused outside a Delhi metro station on her way to what would become one of the largest anti-government demonstrations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in the Indian capital in recent years. She balanced her phone against a railing, stepped back and filmed a …

The Louvre Museum in Paris reopened its Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) to visitors on Wednesday, nine months after jewellery worth millions was stolen in a brazen heist. But the gallery, which once housed France’s crown jewels, reopened without any on display. “This is an iconic space within the Louvre, …

The remains of a further 22 infants have been found at the site of a former mother and baby home in Ireland, investigators have said. It means 99 sets of infants’ remains have now been discovered at the former St Mary’s mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, since …

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who previously pledged to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he visited the city, now says he does not have the “authority” to do so. In a video posted on social media, Mamdani instead called on US officials to act on the International Criminal Court’s arrest …

Two Angolans, sports journalist Amor Carlos Tomé and political activist Francisco Oliveira, were also on trial on similar charges for their alleged part in the Russian-linked influence operation, which they both denied. Tomé received a two-year suspended sentence and Oliveira was acquitted. Prosecutors appealed immediately after the judgement, which was …

A woman has been placed under formal investigation over the death last year in France of a British-South African mother-of-four. Karen Carter, 65, was found lying near her car with stab wounds by a friend in Trémolat, the Dordogne village where she had lived for over a decade and managed …

The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it crashed, prompting mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on 11 April 1952 following multiple-engine failure …

All of the ships were travelling to or from Saudi ports before changing course, ship-tracking data shows. BBC News

According to local press reports, Judge Adriana Tse sentenced her to five years in prison for blackmail and three years for perverting the course of justice, with one year to be served consecutively. Prosecutors argued that Rose fabricated the allegation in an attempt to extort £100,000 ($134,000) from the man, …

A mid-air brawl involving around 10 passengers forced a Liverpool-bound easyJet plane to return to Tenerife. The captain decided to return to the Spanish island around 30 minutes after departure “due to the danger” the violence “posed to the safety of the flight”, the air traffic controller said. Officers met …

The building Adolf Hitler was born in has been converted into a police station, in a bid by the Austrian government to prevent it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. The government compulsorily acquired the traditional terraced house in the town of Braunau am Inn near the German border in …