The ease and speed with which Washington has now pivoted to working with Maduro’s former vice-president infuriates the opposition. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and presidential hopeful, María Corina Machado, may choose not to publicly criticise President Trump, whose support she needs if she hopes to come to power. Others, though, have been more forthcoming….
Pyka and Windracers are building aircraft from scratch, arguing this allows autonomy to be designed in from the outset and the aircraft tailored to the job. Others are retrofitting existing larger planes. Backed by Boeing’s investment arm, US-based Reliable Robotics is currently testing its system on the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan, a single-pilot cargo plane…
Russian President Vladimir Putin responded with one short sentence when asked at a press conference whether Moscow might strike military facilities in the UK in response to British arms supplies to Ukraine. “That’s a secret. A military secret.” Military secret is not a “yes”. And not a “no”. It leaves us hanging. And that, I…
The Dutch central bank (DNB) has confirmed that billions of dollars in gold has been taken out of north America and relocated to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”. DNB said on Wednesday that 86 tonnes of gold had been removed from the US and Canada in a complex operation that took several months. It is…
A Maltese businessman on trial over the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been acquitted. Yorgen Fenech, 44, was accused of complicity in her murder and criminal association to commit murder. He denied all the charges. In 2022, brothers George and Alfred Degiorgio were jailed for 40 years over the killing of Caruana…
For a second time in two days, jurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy told the judge they could not agree on a verdict. Clancy is a 36-year-old Massachusetts mother and former labour and delivery nurse who is on trial for the murder of her three young children in 2023. She is accused of strangling…
Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government’s handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast. Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta, while the government says right-wing parties are exploiting the crisis. On Wednesday…
Over the last year, Uber has also pulled out of Ivory Coast and Tanzania. The latest announcement means Egypt, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa are the only African countries in which the firm now operates. “This decision is limited strictly to these two markets and does not impact our operations across the rest of the…
After the catastrophic flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border a week ago, more than 1,000 people have died and nearly 4,000 more are missing, according to Nepal’s disaster agency. The BBC has travelled to the district of Betrawati in Nepal, as some people return to their homes to see the devastation caused by the floods….
The South African airline behind a daring aerial stunt last Saturday that saw two planes flying in close formation low over a packed stadium has pulled out of doing a similar operation this weekend, the country’s aviation regulator, SACAA, has said. Airlink’s flying feat divided opinion with some labelling the startling manoeuvre reckless, while others…