BBC: The International Criminal Court is holding a hearing to determine whether former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte should stand trial for crimes against humanity committed during his bloody “war on drugs”. The campaign, which Duterte waged as a city mayor and then throughout his six-year presidency, saw the extrajudicial killings of tens of thousands of […]
BBC: A major storm hit the US east coast on Monday bringing record-breaking snow that caused disruptions for millions and thousands of flight cancellations. Parts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts have seen nearly 37in (94cm) of snow fall, with more than 19in in New York City’s Central Park, the National Weather Service said. There have […]
BBC: An explosion outside a train station in Moscow has killed one traffic police officer and injured two others, the Russian Interior Ministry said in a statement. Police had been patrolling their vehicle at Savyolovsky Station Square, north of the city centre, when it said “an unidentified device was detonated” by “an unknown individual”. Authorities […]
BBC: A 24-year-old British man is among 19 people who were killed in a bus crash in Nepal, police say. The bus – which had been carrying tourists – had been travelling to the capital, Kathmandu, when it lost control and fell 200m onto the bank of the Trishuli river, in the country’s central Dhading […]
BBC: North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party has again chosen Kim Jong Un to be its general secretary, state media report. The announcement by the rubber-stamp party congress on Sunday comes as little surprise given the Kim family has ruled the dictatorship since the late 1940s. State-run KCNA said that under Kim’s leadership North Korea “radically […]
BBC: A historic winter storm has started lashing the northeast US, placing 59 million people under weather warnings and causing power outages and a travel ban in New York City. States of emergency have been declared in multiple US states including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Several have instituted restrictions or bans […]
BBC: It took just over 14 months for Yoon Suk Yeol to go from South Korea’s presidential residence to a life behind bars. It took South Koreans less than six hours to thwart the insurrection attempt that put him there. On 4 December, 2024, Yoon announced to the nation that he was declaring martial law […]
BBC: An armed man has been shot dead after entering the secure perimeter of US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the Secret Service has said. The man was carrying a shotgun and fuel can when he was stopped and shot by Secret Service agents and a Sheriff’s deputy, authorities said. The incident happened […]
BBC: A 23-year-old female police officer has been killed and 25 people injured in what Ukrainian officials have called a terror attack in the western city of Lviv. Two homemade explosive devices detonated after police crews responded to a reported break-in shortly after midnight on Sunday, the National Police of Ukraine said. The devices were […]
BBC: Pakistan has carried out multiple overnight air strikes on Afghanistan, which the Taliban has said killed at least 18 people, including women and children. Islamabad said the attacks targeted seven alleged militant camps and hideouts near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and that they had been launched after recent suicide bombings in Pakistan. Afghanistan condemned the […]