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Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Sri Lanka has suspended sales of fuel for non-essential vehicles as it faces its worst economic crisis in decades.
For the next two weeks only buses, trains, and vehicles used for medical services and...
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Survivors of Afghanistan's deadliest earthquake in two decades say they have nothing to eat, no shelter, and fear a possible cholera outbreak. The BBC's Secunder Kermani reports from Paktika province,...
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
A floating restaurant that was a famous Hong Kong landmark has sunk, days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years.
The Jumbo restaurant capsized in the South China...
Monday, 20 June 2022
Russia has become China's biggest supplier of oil as the country sold discounted crude to Beijing amid sanctions over the Ukraine war.
This comes in the wake of a February meeting where the two countries...
Wednesday, 15 June 2022
The first flight due to take asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda was cancelled minutes before take-off after legal rulings on Tuesday evening.
Up to seven people had been expected to be removed to the...
Saturday, 11 June 2022
Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.
Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Brahim Saaudun...
Thursday, 09 June 2022
Russia is sending grain from Ukraine overseas, Russian-appointed officials in occupied southern Ukraine say.
The claim - which the BBC has not been able to verify - comes as Ukrainian officials accuse...
Thursday, 09 June 2022
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her record on handling Vladimir Putin in her first major interview since leaving office.
She said she had "nothing to apologise for" over her response...
Monday, 06 June 2022
The UK is sending its first long-range missiles to Ukraine, the defence secretary has said, despite a threat from Russia to the West.
Ben Wallace said the M270 multiple-launch rocket system will...
Sunday, 05 June 2022
Russian forces have entered the city of Severodonetsk, as they continue their attempts to capture the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. One of the region's governors says that the bombardment of...
Saturday, 04 June 2022
President Joe Biden has said the US should ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to tackle the "carnage" of gun violence.
In a primetime speech to the nation from the White House,...
Monday, 30 May 2022
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the Kharkiv region, on the country's battered eastern front line.
It was his first official trip outside the Kyiv region since the Russian...
Monday, 30 May 2022
The gunman who attacked a school in Texas on Tuesday was able to enter the building unobstructed, police say.
Texas Ranger Victor Escalon said no armed guard challenged the teenage attacker and it is...
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
A Russian diplomat has quit his job in protest at the "bloody, witless" war "unleashed by Putin against Ukraine".
Boris Bondarev, whose LinkedIn says he worked at the Russian mission to the UN in Geneva,...
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Turkey's president has restated his opposition to Finland and Sweden joining Nato - just hours after they said they would seek membership.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the two Scandinavian nations need not...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Vladimir Putin is preparing for a long war in Ukraine, with even victory in the east potentially not ending the conflict, US intelligence has warned.
The warning comes as fierce fighting continues in...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Angry mobs in Sri Lanka have burned down several homes belonging to the ruling Rajapaksas and MPs, after they were attacked by government supporters.
The violence capped a day of unrest that saw PM Mahinda...
Thursday, 05 May 2022
About 2,000 civilians are reportedly trapped by fighting in the front line town of Popasna in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, the main focus of Russia's attempt to gain territory.
Local officials say...
Tuesday, 03 May 2022
Vira Kryvoshenko kneeled on the ground by her front door and pressed her hands together in a prayer: please do not take my son.
It was only blind bad luck that Valeriy had arrived at the same time as...
Monday, 02 May 2022
US police are searching for an escaped inmate who is facing murder charges, and a guard who disappeared with him.
Inmate Casey White and corrections officer Vicki White were last seen on Friday morning...
Tuesday, 21 June 2022 - 23:20
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Thursday, 05 May 2022 - 23:41
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