Allan LittleSenior correspondent BBC I had been asked to give a key-note speech at a conference at Columbia University’s Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre months earlier and you could still feel how wounded the city felt. You could read it…
Mohamed Mohamed OsmanBBC World Service, El-Obeid, Sudan BBC Twins Makarem (left) and Ikram were in separate classrooms when the shelling began It had been a normal day for 18-year-old twins Makarem and Ikram when their school came under fire. Makarem was in an English literature class and Ikram was in a science lesson when they…
Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump’s comments on Thursday about Nato soldiers fighting in Afghanistan angered many veterans and politicians Donald Trump has praised UK soldiers who fought in Afghanistan after his claim that allied forces avoided the front lines prompted criticism from veterans and politicians. Earlier this week Trump angered US allies by…
German police have arrested a Lebanese national on suspicion of being a member of Hamas and planning attacks in Europe. The man, named as “Mohammad S”, was stopped at Berlin’s Brandenburg Airport after arriving from Beirut on Friday evening. Federal prosecutors said that in August 2025 he helped procure 300 rounds of ammunition and was…
A sever winter storm that could affect more than 200 million Americans has brought heavy snow, and freezing temperatures. Regions that could see more than a foot of snow stretch from Colorado to West Virginia, New York City and up to Boston, according to the National Weather Service. More than 10,000 US flights were cancelled…
Ukraine is now living through its most difficult winter in recent memory. With January temperatures plummeting below -15C, Russia has been attacking energy infrastructure, leaving about a million Ukrainians without heating. The capital, Kyiv, is the main target of such attacks. Following the latest Russian bombardment overnight into 24 January, almost 6,000 apartment blocks were…
US President Donald Trump threatened to hit Canada with a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods if the country’s prime minister strikes a trade deal with China. “If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A.,” Trump wrote…
Reuters Zhang Youxia was widely seen as President Xi’s closest military ally China’s defence ministry says it has opened an investigation into the country’s highest-ranking general over “grave violations of discipline and the law”. The ministry gave no further details about accusations against General Zhang Youxia, who has widely been seen as President Xi Jinping’s…
Guy Hedgecoein Córdoba, Spain Reuters “Since the high-speed line was built, 30-something years ago, we never had any problems, it worked perfectly and was fantastic,” says Alberto Montavez Montes, a shop-owner opposite Córdoba city hall, where the Spanish and Andalusian flags have been hanging at half-mast. Now, though things feel different: “It’s not that there’s…
Canada’s Arctic is a massive, treacherous, and largely inhospitable place, stretched out over nearly 4 million square kilometres of territory – but with a small population roughly equal to Blackburn in England or Syracuse, New York. “You can take a map of continental Europe, put it on the Canadian Arctic, and there’s room to spare,”…