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At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides in Tanzania following heavy rains caused by El Niño, the prime minister has said. Kassim Majaliwa warned that the rains might continue into May, and urged families to leave flood-prone areas. About 200,000 people and more than 51,000 households were already affected by the disaster, […]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has suspended public duties to “stop and reflect” on whether to remain in the job, after a court opened a preliminary inquiry into his wife. In a statement, the Spanish leader said he urgently needed to decide “whether I should continue to lead the government or renounce this honour”. The […]
A dramatic orange haze has descended over Athens as clouds of dust have blown in from the Sahara desert. It is one of the worst such episodes to hit Greece since 2018, according to officials. Greece had already been struck by similar clouds in late March and early April, which also covered areas of Switzerland […]
A Russian deputy defence minister has been detained on suspicion of taking bribes, according to the country’s top investigative body. The Investigative Committee said on Tuesday that Timur Ivanov was being held and an investigation carried out. Appointed to the defence ministry in 2016, Mr Ivanov, 47, was responsible for Russia’s military infrastructure projects. Activists […]
Baltimore has sued the operators of the container ship that hit and destroyed one of the US city’s main bridges last month, killing six people. The city says the Dali was “clearly unseaworthy” and accuses its owners and manager of negligence. The ship’s Singapore-based owner and manager have already asked a court to limit their […]
මුලතිව් දිස්ත්රික්කයට අයත් පුදුකුඩිඉරිප්පු, කයිවේලි ගම්මානයේ ජීවත්වෙන ගුණසිංහම් කසේන්ද්රන්ගේ උස අඩි 07යි අඟල් 02කි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ උසම පුද්ගලයා තමන් බවට විශ්වාස කරන බව ඔහු BBC සිංහල සේවයට පැවසුවේය.
Authorities have evacuated 110,000 people from their homes in Guangdong, as days of heavy rain caused massive flooding in China’s most populous province. Four people have died so far, while 10 have gone missing, according to state media. Footage on state media and online show large swathes of land inundated by the floods and rescuers […]
The Israeli military’s intelligence chief has resigned, saying he took responsibility for the failures before Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Major General Aharon Haliva would retire once his successor was selected. He acknowledged in a letter that his intelligence directorate “did not live up to the task […]
German authorities say they have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for China. The main suspect, named as Thomas R, is accused of spying for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). Prosecutors allege his network operated a front company which co-operated with German research organisations. The accused are said to have collected sensitive […]
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The House of Representatives has finally approved billions of dollars in new US military aid for Ukraine to help combat Russia’s invasion. The much-delayed measure had vocal opponents in Congress and it took a fragile bipartisan deal to get the $61bn (£49bn) package through. Republicans said more than a third would be dedicated to replenishing […]
The House of Representatives has finally approved billions of dollars in new US military aid for Ukraine as it struggles to resist Russia’s invasion. The much-delayed measure had vocal opponents in Congress and it took a fragile bipartisan deal to get the $61bn (£49bn) package through. Now the focus shifts from “whether” to “when” lethal […]
යුක්තිය ඉටු කරන බවට වාචික පොරොන්දු ලබා දුන් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ එම පොරොන්දු කඩ කළ ද ජාතික ජනබලවේගය සහ සමගි ජන බලවේගය ලබා දී ඇති ලිඛිත ප්රතිඥා කෙරෙහි විශ්වාසයෙන් පසුවන බවත්, රටේ පාලනය භාරගත යුතු අනාගත නායකයා සතු ලක්ෂණ ගැනත් අතිඋතුම් මැල්කම් රංජිත් හිමිපාණෝ BBC සිංහල සේවය සමග පැවති සංවාදයේ දී පැවසූහ.
A man has set himself on fire outside the court in Manhattan where former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial is being held. After dousing himself in a liquid, he threw pamphlets in the air in front of news media gathered nearby. The man’s motive is unknown and police responded to the scene. Mr Trump was […]
ඊශ්රායලය විසින් මිසයිලයක් ඉරානයට වෙත එල්ල කොට ඇති බව එක්සත් ජනපද නිලධාරීන් BBC හි හවුල්කාර සේවාවක් වන CBS ප්රවෘත්ති වෙත පවසා තිබේ.ඉරාන මාධ්ය පවසන්නේ ඉස්ෆහාන් හි මධ්යම පළාතෙන් පිපිරුම් හඬවල් ඇසුණු බවත්; නගර කිහිපයක ගුවන් ගමන් සේවා අත්හිටුවා ඇති බවත් ය.පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා (අප්රේල් 13) රාත්රියේ ඉරානය
An Israeli missile has hit Iran, US officials have told the BBC’s partner station CBS News. Blasts were heard in the central province of Isfahan and flights have been suspended over several cities, Iranian media say. Iran is on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian
Kenya’s military chief, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, has died after a military helicopter crashed in the west of the country, the president said. Gen Ogolla – Kenya’s highest ranking military officer – was in the helicopter alongside 11 other military personnel. Only two people survived. In a news conference, President William Ruto said it was […]
Ukraine s prime minister has told the BBC there will be a ÂThird World War if Ukraine loses its conflict with Russia, as he urged the US Congress to pass a long-stalled foreign aid bill.
Heavy rain has been battering Gulf states, causing deadly flash floods as well as disrupting flights at the world’s second-busiest airport. Dubai International Airport says it is facing “very challenging conditions”. It advised some passengers not to turn up as areas were inundated with water. Further north, a man died when his car was caught […]
As Beijing increases its repression of ethnic minorities in China to establish Han domination, the Chinese Communist Party is also devising numerous ways to ensure that the overseas media cannot expose this ongoing violation of human rights behind the bamboo curtain. The Chinese media is highly censored. To project the false image of China as […]
කුලියාපිටිය සාරනාත් විද්යාලයේ 10 ශ්රේණියේ අධ්යාපනය ලබන එච්.ඒ මිහින් නිදුවර නව නිපැයුම් තරගවලින් සමස්ත ලංකා ජගග්රහණ ලද දරුවෙකි. ඔහු විසින් නිපදවන ලද ජීවිතාරක්ෂක බෝට්ටුවකට 2022 දී සමස්ත ලංකා පාසල් නව නිපැයුම් තරගයෙන් ප්රථම ස්ථානයක් හිමි වී ඇත. එමෙන්ම දරුවන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව සහතික කෙරෙන 'ගෝ කාට්' එකක් නිපදවීම වෙනුවෙන් ඔහු 2023 දී සමස්ත ලංකා ජයග්රහණයක් හිමි කරගත් බව සාරනාත් විද්යාලයේ විදුහල්පති චමින්ද රන්දෙන...
Heavy rain has battered some Gulf states, causing flash flooding across the region and leading to flights to the world’s busiest international airport being diverted. Dubai Airport said operations were “temporarily diverted” – though they have since restarted. Authorities in Oman said at least 18 people had been killed by floods. Several states recorded nearly […]
On 19 April, Indians will begin choosing a new parliament for the next five years, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a third consecutive term. Opinion polls put his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies ahead. They are up against the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (India), which groups more than two dozen opposition […]
Denmark’s historic old stock exchange building in the centre of Copenhagen has been engulfed by fire. The 17th Century Børsen is one of the city’s oldest buildings and onlookers gasped as its iconic spire collapsed in the flames. Everyone inside the building was able to leave and people rushed to rescue some of its historic […]
Australian police have declared Monday’s stabbing at a Sydney church a religiously motivated “terrorist act”. A 16-year-old boy was arrested after a bishop, a priest and churchgoers were attacked during mass at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church. At least four people suffered “non-life-threatening” injuries, police say. The attacker was also hurt. The incide...
Donald Trump’s unprecedented criminal trial has begun with half of a group of potential jurors ruled out within minutes on impartiality grounds. Mr Trump denies falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Sixty of 96 potential jurors were quick to say in the New York court that they could […]
Organisers of the Beijing half marathon are investigating allegations that three African athletes deliberately allowed China’s star runner He Jie to win Sunday’s race. Footage appeared external to show Kenya’s Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat and Ethiopia’s Dejene Hailu pointing to the line and slowing down before waving past He, 25. The result was criticised […]
A bishop and several other people have been stabbed during a sermon in Sydney that was being streamed online. The incident happened on Monday evening at the Christ The Good Shepherd Church in the suburb of Wakeley. Police responded to reports that a number of people had been stabbed but said none of their injuries […]
2012 වසරේ ඇති වූ ගින්නකින් ගාල්ල, කතළුව රුවන්වැල්ල පුරණ විහාරස්ථානයේ පැවති ඉපැරණි මුද්රණාලය විනාශ විය. එය ප්රතිසංස්කරණය කර සංරක්ෂණය කිරීමට අවශ්ය පියවර ගන්නැයි කළ ඉල්ලීම ශ්රී ලංකාවේ බලධාරීන් සැලකිල්ලට නොගත්ත ද තායිලන්ත රජය විසින් ඊට සහයෝගය දැක්වූ බව පූජ්ය මාරකොල්ලියේ විමලජෝති හිමියෝ BBC සිංහල සේවයට
Former Australian political staffer Bruce Lehrmann raped his colleague Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House, a judge has found in a defamation case. Lehrmann has always denied sex took place at all and sued Network 10 over a TV interview with Ms Higgins. The outlet successfully defended the story as substantially true.Their report in 2021 shocked […]