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👉Listen to The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim on your podcast app👈 Do all roads in the Middle East lead to Lebanon? Journalist and historian Kim Ghattas thinks so. She argues that it is often the fate of small nations to be playgrounds rather than players. Iran, the …

Five people were injured after three pre-dawn firebomb attacks apparently targeting the residences of members of Greece’s governing conservative New Democracy party. The attacks, which took place between 4am and 4.45am today outside apartment buildings in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, used crude explosive devices made with camping gas …

All three ransom notes sent to media outlets following the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie were fake, according to the FBI. The 84-year-old mother of US breakfast show host Savannah Guthrie went missing on 1 February and has not been seen since. Two notes were sent to the media in the …

Even those aviation firms that confirmed to the BBC that authorities have grounded light aircraft operations since the incident did not wish to say more. “We were told to not speak about it. Please ask others,” said a lady at a flight training institute in Beijing. Another firm in Chengdu …

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime said they have carried out strikes on targets along the border with Pakistan, injuring several people in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province. Pakistan’s military said it had shot down four rudimentary drones and warned any further provocation “would receive a befitting response”. The BBC has been unable to …

A three-year-old boy has been pulled alive from the rubble six days after the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, a Jordanian rescue team has said. Video footage shows rescuers cheering as the child, named as Klieber Morán by the country’s interim president, is pulled from wreckage in La Guaira state. Delcy …

The BBC joined US, Japanese and Australian troops in remote North Queensland, where they trained together in some of Australia’s toughest terrain. But why were these exercises taking place in Australia – a country not at war, thousands of kilometres from today’s major conflicts? Our Australia correspondent Katy Watson explains. …

At least 14 children have been killed after the roof of an under-construction tutoring centre collapsed in Pakistan. Eight further children were injured and taken to hospital after the incident in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said. Rescuers were continuing to search through the debris as more children could …

Tom Kean Jr, the New Jersey Republican who had been away from the House of Representatives on unexplained medical leave, told fellow lawmakers he was in hospital for depression during his 142-day absence. “I was given the diagnosis of depression,” he said on the House floor after returning to work …

The US Supreme Court has ruled President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. The BBC’s Chief North America Correspondent Gary O’Donoghue explains the attempt to overturn a policy which has been in place for more than a century – and why the court’s decision is such a …

At least 13 people have died in Ghana’s capital, Accra, after torrential rain resulted in severe flooding, according to the fire service which has been involved in rescue efforts. The government has urged people to stay indoors or move to higher ground, as the meteorological agency warned further rain was …

A makeshift bomb which detonated outside a residential building in Monaco has injured three people, with reports suggesting a Ukrainian tycoon is among them. Police have launched a manhunt to find the suspect, but it is believed he may have fled across the border to France. Surveillance footage appeared to …

For America’s 250th birthday, BBC journalists in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver asked Canadians what they would gift the US and what birthday wishes they’d send their southern neighbour. People from across the country shared how they see the Canada-US relationship today, reflecting on their friendship and their frustrations. Video by …

Red alerts for extreme heat have been issued in Italy and the Balkans as a record-breaking heatwave continues to bake the European continent. In Italy, 25 out of 27 cities, from Bolzano in the north to Palermo on the island of Sicily to the south, are under a red heat …

An Indonesian court has sentenced a former education minister who was the co-founder of super-app Gojek to 10 years in jail. Nadiem Makarim, 41, was accused of manipulating a school laptop procurement deal to enrich himself, leading to $125m (£94m) in state losses, say prosecutors. He has pleaded not guilty. …

Angry fans in Seoul waited for the arrival of the former head coach of South Korea’s men’s national football team after the country failed to advance to the World Cup knockout stages. Announcing his resignation at a news conference in Mexico on Sunday, Hong Myung-bo said that “we didn’t deliver …

A young bald eagle has taken flight, leaving an empty nest in Big Bear Valley, California. Thousands tuned in to a popular livestream set up by Friends of Big Bear Valley, to watch the juvenile eagle, nicknamed Luna, flap its wings and glide to a nearby tree for the first …

“The stench is horrible here. But I’m still trying because I’m looking for my uncle. We cannot just stand by idly when there’s the possibility that there might be people alive under the rubble,” says William Rodrigues. “Help arrived very late in most places, and in some, it has still …

An explosion at a residential building in Monaco has injured three people, two of them critically. The blast occurred shortly before 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) after a bag was left outside the building on Rue Révérend Père Louis Frolla, near the border with France. Minister of State Christophe Mirmand …

A woman has died after an alligator bit off one of her arms in Florida. The 31-year-old was hiking with her boyfriend and best friend near Orlando at the time of the attack on Sunday. They had waded into the Econlockhatchee River to cool off – and were kneeling in …