Daniel De SimoneInvestigations correspondent BBC Listen to Daniel read this story Paul Thompson was shot dead while being driven home in a taxi through Belfast in April 1994. He was murdered in a sectarian attack by loyalist paramilitaries who had set out to kill Catholics. The taxi driver was a friend who was collecting a…
US President Donald Trump has announced he is raising tariffs on South Korean imports to 25% after accusing Seoul of “not living up” to a trade deal reached last year. In a post on social media, Trump said he would increase levies on South Korea from 15% across a range of products including automobiles, lumber,…
Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI, Jensen Huang CEO of Nvidia, on stage at Vivatechnology, in Paris, France on June 11, 2025. (Photo by AUGUSTIN PASQUINI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images) Augustin Pasquini | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia has become something of an AI kingmaker as hyperscalers rush to build out AI capacity. It’s also got…
The senior ranks of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are in tatters. The weekend purging of China’s top general, Zhang Youxia, and another senior military officer, Gen Liu Zhenli, has left serious questions about what triggered the elite power struggles unfolding in the country – and what this means for China’s warfighting capacity, whether it…
President Donald Trump said Monday that he was hiking tariffs on imports from South Korea to 25% from 15%, complaining that the nation’s legislature wasn’t “living up” to a trade deal that was struck last year. “Because the Korean Legislature hasn’t enacted our Historic Trade Agreement, which is their prerogative, I am hereby increasing South…
Marineland, a closed aquatic park in Ontario, had threatened to euthanize its whales after the government denied an application to send them to China. Source link
A group of officers in Nigeria are set to face a military court after being accused of “plotting to overthrow the government” of President Bola Tinubu last year, an armed forces’ statement has said. Sixteen officers were arrested last October after what were described as “acts of indiscipline and breaches of service regulations”. At the…
TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture. The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence…
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Verified videos emerging from Iran show bodies piled up in a hospital, snipers stationed on buildings and CCTV cameras being destroyed, following the unprecedented crackdown on protests earlier this month. BBC Verify has been tracking the spread of protests across Iran since they first erupted in late December, but the near total internet blackout imposed…