The Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza told the Security Council on Wednesday that he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed at their last meeting on a mechanism through which his government’s remaining questions would be settled and that committees had been established for that purpose. Mladenov said that process had not…
Floods have devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region which have destroyed towns and swept away bridges. Hundreds of people have been reported dead and hundreds more missing. BBC Verify has traced the path of the deadly flash flood using verified videos and satellite imagery. Merlyn Thomas reports. Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Verification…
Putin will be well aware of Donald Trump’s periodic disdain for Nato and he may have calculated that a low-key attack on say, Lithuania, is not going to trigger Nato’s mutual self-defence clause – Article 5 – and that the US will not respond. In which case it would make sense for part of the…
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order seeking to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America. The move comes after trade talks between the US and Canada collapsed late last week, and the US imposed new 50% tariffs on $20bn (C$28bn) worth of Canadian goods. Canada will implement “dollar for dollar” counter tariffs next…
Attorneys for both sides made closing arguments on Thursday before the jury began deliberating. Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s attorney, repeated the defence’s argument that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she killed the children with exercise bands at their home and then attempted to end her own life by jumping out a window. Clancy was paralysed…
Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladić, dubbed the “Butcher of Bosnia” for his actions during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, has died in prison. BBC special correspondent Allan Little was there throughout the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, and met Mladić in the early months of the Bosnian war. At night, you could watch the…
Prosecutors allege that on 24 January 2023, Clancy intentionally strangled all of her children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months – with fitness bands in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home before jumping from a second-floor window. Clancy, now 36, was paralysed by the fall and attended the trial in a wheelchair. Clancy’s attorneys,…
Two people have been killed in a “domestic violence incident” at a school in the town of Gosen-Neu Zittau near the German capital Berlin, local police have said. Brandenburg state police said they arrested a 19-year-old German man, who is “considered a prime suspect”. They said it was not a “mass shooting”, without specifying what…
His Optimus Prime voice was inspired by his older brother, a decorated US Marine and Vietnam War veteran, who suggested he should play the character as “a real hero, don’t be a Hollywood hero”. “He said, ‘Don’t go yelling and screaming. He’s strong enough to be gentle.’ “And that resonated with me, and I could…
A massive influx of jellyfish has led to the partial shutdown of a nuclear reactor in northern France. Two of Gravelines nuclear power station’s six units were shut down on Wednesday and Thursday because of the presence of jellyfish in the seawater filtration system, which is used for cooling, Électricité de France (EDF) said. A…