Ukraine’s DSNS emergency service/Kharkiv region At least one carriage of the passenger train was burning after the Russian drone attack in north-eastern Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned as “terrorism” a Russian drone attack on a passenger train that local officials say killed at least four people. Zelensky said another four people were missing…
The wife of South Korea’s ousted former president has been sentenced to 20 months in jail for accepting bribes from the controversial Unification Church. However, the court cleared 52-year-old Kim Keon Hee on charges of stock price manipulation and receiving free opinion polls from a political broker before the 2022 presidential election, which her husband…
Gavin Butlerand Hyojung Kim,BBC World Service Getty Images The scandals Kim Keon Hee faces predate her husband Yoon’s ill-fated political career Two Chanel handbags, a BMW dealership and a controversial church were at the centre of a trial faced by South Korea’s former first lady, Kim Keon Hee. The wife of disgraced former president Yoon…
Ajit Pawar, deputy chief minister of India’s Maharashtra state, has died in a plane crash along with four other people, the country’s aviation regulator has said. The plane, which had taken off from Mumbai, crash-landed at the airport in Pawar’s constituency of Baramati, where it had been headed, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said….
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar was attacked with an unknown substance at a town hall she was hosting on Tuesday, when an audience member used a syringe to spray liquid at her, Minneapolis police said. Omar was uninjured and continued to speak. The man was immediately arrested and forensics were being conducted at the scene, police…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has revealed a support package for British pubs, which the Mirror describes as “long-awaited”. “Half measures” declares the paper, reporting that publicans have not been impressed by the 15% discount on business rates she announced. The discount will come into effect in April. The Wednesday edition of the i Paper calls the…
Canadian-American rock star Neil Young is offering Greenlanders a year’s free access to his archives in what he hopes will “ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats” they are receiving from the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has threatened to annex the Danish territory for what he says are national security reasons, though recently…
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred five prisoners serving indefinite sentences to the Court of Appeal, the BBC’s Newsnight programme has been told. Indeterminate Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences account for approximately 2,800 people, despite being abolished in 2012. The open-ended sentences were originally issued to people considered dangerous, but whose offence…
The scramble for tickets to K-pop band BTS’ comeback tour, which comes after a four-year hiatus, has seen Mexico’s president appealing to her South Korean counterpart to add more shows in her country. “I wrote a letter to the [president] of Korea… I still haven’t received the answer, but let’s hope it’s positive,” Mexico’s president…
Daniel BushWashington correspondent Watch: Republican senators express disappointment in DHS Secretary Noem Republican lawmakers are starting to break with the Trump administration over its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, as the party scrambles to respond to growing public anger after two US citizens were killed by federal agents. But even as some Republicans in Washington speak…
