BBC Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg on scene of Moscow car bombing A Russian general has been killed in a car bombing in Moscow, officials have said. Russia’s Investigative Committee said Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov died on Monday morning after an explosive device planted under a car detonated. He is the third military official to have…
Since taking office, Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken two different approaches when a member of Congress or the Florida Legislature resigns or dies. Sometimes he acts speedily to call a special election to fill the vacancy and get a replacement in office quickly, especially if it’s a district in which voters are likely to elect a…
Indonesia said it has resolved all substantive issues in trade talks with the US and is on course to ink an agreement in late January, removing a major source of uncertainty for Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. The US is one of Indonesia’s top trading partners, contributing the largest non-oil and gas trade surplus of $17…
Reuters MSF said it would be “a disaster for Palestinians” if international NGOs are forced to stop operations in Gaza The UN and other aid agencies fear new Israeli registration rules for dozens of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) risk the collapse of the humanitarian response in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. INGOs not…
Fergal KeaneSpecial correspondent BBC Siwar Ashour spent six months in Jordan after being evacuated from Gaza A one-year-old Palestinian girl evacuated from Gaza with severe nutritional problems is back in hospital in the territory after being returned there from Jordan. Siwar Ashour, whose story the BBC has followed for several months, was repatriated to Gaza…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Pope Leo XIV has announced a pro-immigration pastor as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida, which is home to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. On Friday, Pope Leo named Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish in Queens, New York, as the new bishop…
CARACAS, Venezuela—A U.S. pressure campaign to topple President Nicolás Maduro is stranding Venezuelans around the world, cutting off air links to one of the planet’s least-connected countries and compounding the misery of a beleaguered population. PREMIUM More than a dozen international air carriers have stopped serving Venezuela since the end of November. Venezuela’s 28 million…
Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent Hindustan Times via Getty Images Providing unskilled public work, the jobs scheme has become a backbone of rural livelihoods in India India is home to one of the world’s most ambitious social programmes – a jobs guarantee that gives every rural household the legal right to paid work. Launched in 2005 by…
PA Media Jack Hibbert had been working as a police officer for just months before he was shot A young police officer who was shot in the head during the Bondi Beach attack has been released from hospital. Probationary Constable Jack Hibbert – who is just four months into the job – was patrolling a…
James Landale,Diplomatic correspondentand Rachel Hagan Watch: BBC asks Trump what the new appointment to Greenland entails Donald Trump has sparked a fresh row with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the vast Arctic island he has said he would like to annex. In response to a question from the BBC about the new…