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 a mined route in the…
The BBC’s Sarah Smith explains the implications of the landmark cooperation agreement between both countries. Source link
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 businesses since the start of…
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 used to justify a 50%…
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 salt through the desert. “I…
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 in an attempt to find…
A fire has killed 10 members of the same family, including five children, at a home in Peru’s capital Lima, police say. The blaze ripped through the property in the southern La Victoria district early on Wednesday, Gen Oscar Arriola from the Peruvian National Police told local media. Five children, aged between three and 15…
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, but it will no longer…
The wreckage of a Pan American Airways plane has been found 74 years after it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in a crash that prompted mandatory airline safety briefings. The Clipper Endeavor was found 2,000ft (610m) below sea level off the coast of Puerto Rico with a sonar-equipped drone. It went down on 11 April…
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 warrant for the Israeli Prime…