BBC: Devendra, who was a farmer in India, still remembers the moment a snake sank its fangs into his leg while he was picking mulberry leaves. “I went to the hospital four days after I was bitten, when the pain became unbearable. But the delay cost me my leg,” he says in a short film […]
BBC: Twelve miners have been killed by a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine, the country’s largest private energy firm have said. DTEK said a bus carrying workers after a shift in the Dnipropetrovsk region had been targeted in Sunday’s attack. At least 15 people were injured, State Emergency Services said. Earlier, at least two […]
BBC: More than 200 people have been killed in a mine collapse in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, rebel authorities have said. The mine, in the town of Rubaya, gave way on Wednesday due to heavy rains, Lumumba Kambere Muyisa, spokesman for the North Kivu region’s rebel governor, told reporters. At the time, the death […]
BBC: At least 32 people have been killed in a wave of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to local authorities. The civil defence agency, which is operated by Hamas, says children and women were among those killed. It added that in one attack, helicopter gunships hit a tent sheltering displaced […]
BBC: Pakistan’ military says it has killed at least 92 militants blamed for deadly co-ordinated attacks in the south-western Balochistan province on Saturday. The military said 15 security service personnel and 18 civilians were also killed. It accused India of supporting the militants. Delhi has repeatedly denied such accusations. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) rebel […]
BBC: South Africa’s Zulu king has raised eyebrows by using a highly derogatory term for foreigners and saying they must all leave the country during a much-hyped speech that was supposed to have been aimed at calming anti-migrant feelings in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. Warning: This story contains language some people may find offensive […]
BBC: Five people have been killed in two separate explosions in Iran which local officials and state media say were caused by gas leaks. One person was killed and 14 injured in a blast at a residential building in the southern city of Bandar Abbas on the Gulf coast, a local official told Iran’s semi-official […]
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre delivered a speech on Friday that called for Canadians to stay united in the face of an “uncertain world”, amid growing separatist sentiments in Alberta and Quebec. “A house divided cannot stand,” Poilievre said in Calgary, ahead of a consequential vote where party members will decide whether he should stay […]
BBC: Millions of new files relating to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the US Department of Justice, the largest number of documents shared by the government since a law mandated their release last year. Three million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos were posted publicly on Friday. The release came six […]
BBC: At least 170 people were killed in military air strikes during Myanmar’s weeks’ long election period, the United Nations has said. “Credible sources” had counted the civilian deaths, the UN rights office said, as well as 408 military aerial attacks from December 2025 to late last week, when the third and final round of […]