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The World Health Organization (WHO) has described al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City as a “death zone”. A joint UN team led by the WHO assessed the hospital for one hour following its occupation by the Israeli military and as some patients and those seeking shelter there began to evacuate it. The team said they saw […]
Finland has closed four of its border crossings with Russia to try to halt a surge in asylum seekers it says was instigated by Moscow. Helsinki accused its neighbour of channelling migrants to the crossings in retaliation for it joining Nato. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Finland was making a “big mistake” and destroying bilateral […]
An armed suspect opened fire in the lobby of a psychiatric hospital in New Hampshire, killing one person, before an officer returned fire, killing the attacker, police say. Officials said the suspect was “immediately engaged and shot” dead by an officer assigned to the hospital. The officer was not hurt. Police have not identified the […]
රටේ නීතිය අනුව වැරදිකරුවෙකු වී මරණිය දණ්ඩනය හිමි වූ රැඳවියෙකු බන්ධනාගාරය තුළ ගෙවෙන කාලය ආචාර්ය උපාධියක් ලැබීමේ සිහිනය හඹා යෑම සඳහා වෙන් කර ඇති අතර ඔහු සමග සාකච්ඡාවක නිරත වීමට BBC සිංහල සේවයට විශේෂ අවසරයක් හිමි විය.
A Boeing 747 cargo jet has been forced to turn around, after a horse escaped from its stall and caused chaos as the plane cruised at 30,000ft (9,144m). The plane was headed to Belgium from New York but did a U-turn roughly 90 minutes after its departure when the animal got loose. Air traffic control […]
Their smiling faces look down from the sides of skyscrapers, walls between Tel Aviv’s restaurants and bars and a giant video screen at a shopping mall entrance. More than 240 hostages were snatched at gunpoint on 7 October from their homes or workplaces next to the Gaza Strip, from military bases and a big outdoor […]
Red alerts have been issued for almost 3,000 towns and cities across Brazil, which have been experiencing an unprecedented heatwave. Records have been broken in areas including the city Rio de Janeiro – where temperatures felt as high as 52.5C. More than a hundred million people have been affected by the heat, which is expected […]
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The US Supreme Court on Monday released its first ever set of ethics rules governing its nine justices. The nine-page “code of conduct” comes as the most powerful legal body in America is under increasing scrutiny following recent news reports of gifts and holiday arrangements lavished on several of its jurists. While federal judges on […]
Indian rescue workers have made contact with about 40 workers trapped in a tunnel collapse in Uttarakhand state and confirmed that all of them are safe, officials have said. “All the 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel are safe,” Karamveer Singh Bhandari, a senior commander in the National Disaster Response Force, said in a statement […]
Five American service members have died in a helicopter crash in the eastern Mediterranean, the US military says. It says the aircraft suffered a mishap while refuelling as part of a routine training exercise. The military statement did not specify where the aircraft was flying from or where the crash happened. The US has increased […]
Millions of Indians are celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which is one of the most important festivals in the country. People pray, enjoy festive meals and light fireworks; sweets are distributed among neighbours and friends and a feeling of joy permeates the air. However, the celebrations also spark concerns about air pollution, including […]
Pope Francis has fired the Texan bishop Joseph Strickland, a fierce critic who has questioned the Pope’s leadership of the Catholic church. The Vatican said the bishop would be “relieved” of his duties as a result of investigations at his Diocese of Tyler. Bishop Strickland is a leading voice in a branch of US Catholicism […]
Lionel Messi has “no doubt” Inter Miami will secure more silverware after he extended his record for Ballon d’Or wins. The 36-year-old Argentina forward was named the world’s best player for an eighth time last month, after helping his country win the 2022 World Cup. He left Paris St-Germain to join Miami in July and the MLS club won […]
Israel must stop killing babies and women in Gaza, French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC.
Iceland has declared a state of emergency after a series of earthquakes raised fears of a volcanic eruption. Authorities have ordered thousands living in the southwestern town of Grindavík to evacuate as a precaution. The Icelandic Met Office (IMO) says it is concerned large amounts of magma – molten rock- is spreading underground and could […]
US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping are to meet next week in the San Francisco Bay area, two senior administration officials said. The encounter on 15 November will be only their second face-to-face meeting during the Biden presidency. It will be wide-ranging, US officials said, with the Israel-Hamas war, Taiwan, war in […]
Australian surfer Laura Enever has set a world record for riding the largest wave ever paddled into by a woman. The 31-year-old tamed the 43.6ft (13.3m) beast in January at a break nicknamed the Himalayas in Oahu, Hawaii. It beat the previous record – which stood for seven years – by only a foot. Paddling-in […]
Thousands of people have been forced to flee the Sudanese region of West Dafur amid fears of ethnic cleansing, a medical charity says. Witnesses have accused the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of targeting and killing non-Arabs, with reports of hundreds of deaths. This comes after the RSF captured the Sudanese army headquarters in […]
Appeal judges have halted a compensation case brought by Kenyan tea pickers against their employer in Scotland’s highest civil court. James Finlay Kenya Ltd (JFK) is fighting the multi-million pound damages claim at the Court of Session. In a major setback to their case, the workers have been told they should seek redress in Kenya […]
Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa says he has handed his resignation to the president, after investigators searched his official residence in an inquiry into alleged corruption. He said he had not been named as a suspect but believed the inquiry was incompatible with staying in office. Prosecutors said on Tuesday they were investigating concessions awarded […]
කලෙක, ජර්මානු හමුදාවේ එක ම යුදෙව් සාමාජිකයා වූ මයිකල් ෆර්ස්ට්, ඔහු යුදෙව් විරෝධී ප්රකාශයන්ට ගොදුරුවී දැන් දශක ගණනාවක් ගෙවීගොස් ඇතත් එම රිදවීම පිළිබඳව මතකයේ නැවුම්භාවය BBC ලෝක සේවයේ Heart and Soul වැඩසටහනට හෙළි කරයි.
පකිස්ථානයේ සිට නීති විරෝධී ලෙස යුරෝපයට මිනිසුන් ප්රවාහනය කරන පුද්ගලයෙකු සමග සම්බන්ධ වී එම මිනිස් වෙළදාම් ජාලයේ තොරතුරු හෙළිදරව් කිරීමට රහසිගත තොරතුරු සොයන BBC මාධ්යවේදියෙකු සමත් විය.
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities across the world for a weekend of demonstrations demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pro-Palestine demonstrations took place on Saturday in various cities including Washington, DC; London; Paris; Berlin; Milan and Dhaka. In Turkey, a convoy of Palestine supporters headed to a US […]
Police in the German city of Hamburg say they are dealing with a suspected hostage situation at the airport after an armed man drove through a security barrier and onto the tarmac. Special forces have also been deployed after the vehicle entered the airport on Saturday (04 November) evening at about 20:00 local time (19:00 […]
Owner of two companies in a tax haven The name of a top Sri Lankan politician has emerged in the latest release of Pandora Papers two years after the first leak of financial secrets of shell companies in overseas tax shelters.The individual, a minister in President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s cabinet, has been identified as the beneficial […]
One of the world’s biggest shipping firms is to cut 3,500 more jobs due to lower freight rates and demand. AP Moller-Maersk already cut 6,500 roles earlier this year as part of “rigorous cost containment measures” but said more redundancies were needed. The firm, which transports goods for major retailers such as Nike, said profits […]
Guinea’s former military ruler, Moussa Dadis Camara, has been sprung from prison by armed men, the country’s justice minister says. The group stormed a jail in the capital, Conakry, early on Saturday (03 November) morning – freeing Capt Camara and three others. One has since been found. The fugitives are currently on trial for their […]
Afghanistan continued their late surge for a place in the World Cup semi-finals with a seven-wicket win over the Netherlands in Lucknow. The victory moves Afghanistan level with Australia and New Zealand on eight points, with only net run-rate now keeping them out of the top four. Hashmatullah Shahidi hit an unbeaten 56 as Afghanistan […]
The Hezbollah leader took his time to respond to the past month of bloodletting which has turned the Middle East into a tinder box. And when Hassan Nasrallah spoke, what he did not say was as important as what he said. There was no declaration of all-out war on Israel. At least, not now. Few […]