A rebel leader in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo says his fighters will withdraw from a key city at the request of the US. Corneille Nangaa’s statement came days after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the capture of Uvira by rebel forces violated a peace deal, and the US would “take action to…
Katie RazzallCulture and Media Editor PA Media Self-evidently, the BBC has a big decision to make. If it hoped the President might not follow through on his threat to sue, the reality check has arrived. Now it’s about gaming out the options but current indications are it plans to fight. “We will be defending this…
One of the two men suspected of carrying out a mass shooting at Bondi Beach was originally from southern India but had “limited contact” with his family there, police sources have said. Sajid Akram, 50, who died at the scene in Sydney on Sunday, was originally from the city of Hyderabad, a police official from…
Lawyers for the axed former chief executive of Oxfam GB have said she will launch legal action against the charity, claiming she was constructively dismissed. Halima Begum’s solicitors say she was “forced to resign” due to the “hostile, victimising and discriminatory conduct of Oxfam”. They said she “entirely denies the defamatory and unfounded criticism of…
Elio Della Ferrera, Arch. PaleoStelvio Initial research was carried out before snow covered the area Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy. The footprints – some of which are up to 40cm (15in) in diameter – are aligned in parallel rows, and many…
The government has ordered an independent review into foreign financial interference in UK politics in response to what it called the “shocking” case of Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales. Gill was jailed in November, after admitting to taking bribes for pro-Russian interviews and speeches when he was a Member of…
Reuters Many of those displaced by the violence in el-Fasher have ended up living in camps Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been trying to cover up mass killings in the city of el-Fasher by burying and burning bodies, a research team from Yale University says. The RSF had drawn international condemnation amid reports…
Sarah TurnnidgeWest of England BBC Police say a teenage boy has been arrested in Worle, North Somerset A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a nine-year-old girl. Police were called to Lime Close in the Mead Vale area of Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, at 18:09 GMT on Monday, where the girl was pronounced…
Jonathan BealeDefence correspondent in Kyiv YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP Across Ukraine electricity is being rationed – with supplies turned on for a few hours each day Ukraine’s biggest energy provider is living in permanent crisis mode because of Russian attacks on the grid, its chief executive has told the BBC. Most of Ukraine is suffering from lengthy…
Planning permission has been granted for the first Universal Studios theme park to be built in the UK, an MP has said. Mohammad Yasin, the Labour MP for Bedford and Kempston, said the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government had given the go-ahead for the complex to be constructed in Kempston Hardwick,…
