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Togo has arrested and extradited Burkina Faso’s former leader to his home country, after authorities in Ouagadougou accused him of plotting to kill his successor. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba – who came to power in a coup in 2022 before himself being overthrown by Ibrahim Traoré eight months later – is …

Initial pre-enabling work involved a site tidy including the removal of floodlights, essential site investigations and implementing security. They preceded a visit by Uefa officials on 28 February, 2024 with Casement Park then still nominated as a host venue for football’s 2028 European Championships. However, with the UK Government confirming …

Kimberly Darroch Milly Main died after contracting an infection at the Royal Hospital for Children, part of the QEUH campus The Scottish Hospitals Inquiry is to hold its final session just days after a health board admitted infections of some child cancer patients were probably linked to a hospital water …

The small town of Adamuz in Spain has become the scene of a fatal rail disaster. Dozens of people died in the incident, with even more injured. The BBC’s Guy Hedgecoe visited the scene, where a large police cordon is in place. Officials said an investigation has been launched but …

South Africa has sent a team to help with rescue efforts after a local politician was swept away by floodwaters while visiting neighbouring Mozambique. Andile Mngwevu, a councillor in the Ekurhuleni municipality, east of Johannesburg, and four others were in Mozambique’s Gaza province when their car was caught in a …

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has declared a state of catastrophe in two regions where deadly wildfires are raging. At least 16 people are confirmed dead in the Ñuble and Biobío regions, about 500km (300 miles) south of the capital Santiago. At least 20,000 have been evacuated. The most dangerous fire …

Syrian troops have seized the country’s largest oil field as well as a gas field after fighting US-backed Kurdish-led forces. The loss of the Omar oil field to the east of the Euphrates River was a major blow to the group as it provided a key source of revenue. The …

Soldiers are on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis, a US defence official has told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. The official said the 1,500 soldiers, currently in Alaska, are an option for the US president if he decided to use active duty military personnel, as anti-Immigration and Customs …

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An “experienced terrorist leader” with ties to al Qaeda has been killed in US strikes, after an Islamic State ambush last month left three Americans dead. Bilal Hasan al Jasim had direct links to the ambush, which killed two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter in Syria, according to officials. …

US forces have carried out a strike which killed an al-Qaeda leader “who had direct ties” to an Islamic State (IS) group terrorist responsible for an ambush which killed three Americans in Syria, officials have said. The US Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement that Bilal Hasan al-Jasim was …

A fire at a shopping centre in Pakistan has killed at least three people and injured several others. The blaze swept through the multi-storey Gul Plaza in the country’s largest southern city of Karachi shortly after 10pm local time (5pm UK time) on Saturday, officials said. TV footage showed firefighters …

Five off-piste skiers have died in two avalanches in the Austria’s Alps following heavy snowfall in the region. An avalanche hit a group of seven skiers in the Pongau area near Salzburg, killing four and seriously injuring one on Saturday, local mountain rescue officials said. A similar avalanche swept away …

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has accused the US and Donald Trump of being responsible for “casualties, damage and slander” in his country during recent protests. In a speech on Saturday, Khamenei acknowledged that thousands of people had been killed during recent unrest, “some in an inhuman, savage manner” …

The mayor of Yokohama has apologised for insulting colleagues after an official publicly accused him of making offensive remarks. At a news conference, the Japanese city’s human resource chief, Jun Kubota, alleged that Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka had used terms such as “idiot” and “human scum” to disparage staff. It is …

The former president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges relating to his failed martial law declaration. Yoon was found guilty on Friday of mobilising the presidential ⁠security service to block authorities from executing an arrest warrant to investigate him over …

The Princess of Wales hosted England’s women’s rugby union team at Windsor Castle to celebrate their World Cup success in September. England beat Canada 33-13 in front of 81,885 spectators at Twickenham to lift the trophy for a third time. Catherine, a patron of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), met …

The US has seized a sixth tanker in the Caribbean Sea in its ongoing efforts to control exports of Venezuelan oil, officials say. The vessel, Veronica, was boarded in a predawn operation “without incident” as it was defying President Donald Trump’s “quarantine of sanctioned vessels”, said the US military. “The …

Former Cameroon star Samuel Eto’o has been handed a four-match ban and fined $20,000 (£14,960) after being found guilty of misconduct by a Confederation of African Football (Caf) disciplinary panel. A Caf statement said that Eto’o, now president of his nation’s football federation (Fecafoot), had violated its principles of sportsmanship …

It was a controversial decision because images shown on television gave the impression that Wirtz was ahead of the last defender by a clear margin. But the KMI Panel unanimously backed Madley, saying: “The VAR intervention to award the goal was supported as correct, given the tight margin of the …