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From BBC News. After Donald Trump’s incendiary interview this week, in which he called European leaders "weak" and questioned Ukraine’s commitment to democracy, current messaging from the White House appears to be aligned with longstanding Kremlin rhetoric. So as Europe’s ‘coalition of the willing’ assemble for a new round of talks, can they level the…
From BBC News. The rescue operation to get Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel laureate María Corina Machado out of Venezuela involved disguises, two boats through choppy seas and a flight, the man who says he led it told the BBC. Dubbed Operation Golden Dynamite, the dangerous journey was cold, wet and long – but the…
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From BBC News. The Trump administration has been defending its seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast. In a dramatic video shared by the US Attorney General, armed camouflaged soldiers are shown swinging down ropes from low flying helicopters, and running along the vessel’s decks. The US claims the tanker is used to…
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From BBC News. More photos from the estate of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have been released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee. The photos include images of US President Donald Trump, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Steve Bannon. There is no suggestion that these pictures imply any wrongdoing and many of those featured in them have…
From BBC News. Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro says escalating pressure from the US comes down to one thing: Washington wants to grab the South American nation’s vast oil reserves. This week, the American military seized an oil tanker, which was allegedly carrying Venezuelan oil being shipped in violation of US sanctions, and threatened action against…
From BBC News. In Marseille, locals talk of a state of panic and terror gripping the city. Rival drug gangs are now using automatic weapons in their turf wars – and using teenagers too. The number of children involved has risen sixfold in recent years. Many are forced into debt, beaten and threatened. The city’s…
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From BBC News. England’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting has said he is "extremely worried" about rising numbers of flu patients in hospitals and forthcoming strikes by resident doctors in England next week. Speaking to LBC, Streeting said the current situation was "probably the worst pressure the NHS has faced since Covid". Flu has come early…
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From BBC News. With the announcement that the two-child benefit cap will be scrapped in full from next April, a member of the Question Time audience in Paisley, Scotland, asked: "Is lifting the two-child benefit cap fair to taxpayers?". Panellists discussed the matter, featuring the SNP’s Stephen Flynn, Labour’s Anas Sarwar, Conservative Russell Findlay, Reform…
From BBC News. US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, marking a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro’s government. Speaking at the White House, President Donald Trump said the tanker was "the largest one ever seized". Footage released by the US government showed armed soldiers boarding the…
From BBC News. Today, the number of people in hospital with the flu has risen by more than half this week. Doctors say an earlier start to the flu season plus an unexpected mutation in this years primary strain has led to a lower rate of immunity amongst the general public for this time of…
From BBC News. Flu season has hit the UK a month earlier than normal this year, with experts warning there appears to be a more severe strain of the virus – mutated H3N2 – circulating. Over two days, the BBC was given access to a hospital to witness first-hand how it is coping with an…
From BBC News. A BBC investigation has found that endangered species are being openly sold on Facebook. Among the listings were a live tiger in a cage, bred for its body parts, hundreds of dried shark fins, and live pangolins. Meta says it does not allow the sale of endangered species, and removes this content…
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From BBC News. In Marseille, locals talk of a state of panic and terror gripping the city. Rival drug gangs are now using automatic weapons in their turf wars – and using teenagers too. The number of children involved has risen sixfold in recent years. Many are forced into debt, beaten and threatened. The city’s…
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From BBC News. Endangered species, including tiger body parts, shark fins and pangolin scales, are being offered for sale on Facebook, BBC News has found. One user posted videos of a tiger in a cage that was for sale as well as pictures of tiger bones and teeth, while another included two live tiger cubs…
From BBC News. Have you had the flu or are you concerned around the latest surge in cases? Flu cases have jumped sharply in England as the NHS faces its "worst-case scenario". We’re answering your questions live. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #BBCNews
From BBC News. Australia’s social media ban on U16s, the first of its kind in the world, has come into effect. We’re answering the questions you’ve got about the ban. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news #BBCNews
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From BBC News. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows "exactly the risks" she’s taking by travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize. Machado appeared in Oslo in the middle of the night – the first time she has been…
From BBC News. In 2023, Giulia Tramontano was murdered by her partner in Milan, Italy. She was seven months pregnant at the time of her death. 137 women and girls around the world are killed by an intimate partner or family member every day. That’s according to the most recent data from the United Nations.…
From BBC News. An average of 2,660 patients per day were in hospital with flu in England last week – the highest ever for this time of year. "This unprecedented wave of super flu is leaving the NHS facing a worse-case scenario for this time of year," NHS national medical director Professor Meghana Pandit said.…
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From BBC News. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows "exactly the risks" she’s taking by travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize. Machado appeared in Oslo in the middle of the night, waving from the balcony of a hotel.…
From BBC News. Today, Sir Keir Starmer and Danish leader Mette Frederiksen published a joint article arguing for urgent modernisation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which has an impact on how a country can tackle illegal migration. David Lammy is in Strasbourg with European counterparts, beginning negotiations to change how the continent’s…
From BBC News. María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who has been in hiding, sent a voice message saying she was "safe" and on her way to the Norwegian capital. She did not make it to the ceremony at the City Hall in time, but her daughter, Ana Corina Sosa, accepted the award on…
From BBC News. A stunning discovery at an archaeological dig in the UK is rewriting the timeline of when humans first made fire. Researchers have discovered the earliest known instance of human-created fire, which took place in the east of England 400,000 years ago. The new discovery, in the village of Barnham, pushes the origin…
From BBC News. Passengers, transport staff and bus drivers in the West Midlands, UK, say there is a growing national trend of antisocial behaviour on public transport. One driver describes a "lawlessness" among some of the travelling public – mostly younger people – which he believes has got worse in 38 years of driving Birmingham’s…
From BBC News. US President Donald Trump has repeated calls for Kyiv to hold elections and claimed it was "using war" as a reason not to do so. He said: "You know, they talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore." Ukrainian President Zelensky’s five-year term as…
From BBC News. A sperm donor who unknowingly harboured a genetic mutation that dramatically raises the risk of cancer has fathered at least 197 children across Europe, a major investigation has revealed. Some children have already died and only a minority who inherit the mutation will escape cancer in their lifetimes. Denmark’s European Sperm Bank,…
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From BBC News. The daughter of María Corina Machado, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, has said her mother is determined to live in a free Venezuela and would "never give up on that purpose" as she accepted her mother’s award. Machado went into hiding shortly after Venezuela’s disputed presidential election in July…
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From BBC News. Border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia have extended for a third day, killing at least 10 people and displacing hundreds of thousands. Both countries have blamed each other for re-igniting the fighting, which has seen air strikes and exchanges of artillery fire. Thai officials said they evacuated more than 400,000 people, while…
From BBC News. Ukraine is "ready for elections", President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, after US President Donald Trump repeated claims Kyiv was "using war" to avoid holding them. Zelensky’s five-year term as president was due to end in May 2024, but elections have been suspended in Ukraine since martial law was declared after Russia’s invasion.…
From BBC News. President Trump has said Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky has to start accepting that his country is losing its war with Russia. Speaking in an interview he said Russia was much bigger and stronger than Ukraine and “at some point size will win”. He also criticised European leaders, calling them weak and saying…
From BBC News. Children under the age of 16 in Australia are no longer allowed to use social media. Instagram, Facebook, Threads, X, Snapchat, Kick, Twitch, TikTok, Reddit and YouTube are among the platforms required to enforce the new legislation. The Australian government said it is aimed at protecting kids from cyberbullying, online predators and…
From BBC News. US President Donald Trump has criticised European leaders as "weak" and suggested the US could scale back support for Ukraine. In an interview with Politico, he said "decaying" European countries had failed to control migration or take decisive action to end Ukraine’s war with Russia, accusing them of letting Kyiv fight "until…
From BBC News. Today, a report into almost £11 billion of Covid scheme fraud has found that most of it is beyond recovery. Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner, Tom Hayhoe said that a lack of accountability, bad quality data and poor contracting during the pandemic had led to £10.9 billion being lost to fraud or error.…
From BBC News. Jess Glynne’s Hold My Hand has been named as the UK’s TikTok song of the year thanks to the viral ‘nothing beats a Jet2holiday’ trend. The 2015 hit has become associated with adverts for the holiday company over the years, but it gained a new life when TikTok users began using the…
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From BBC News. Millions of children and teenagers under the age of 16 have lost access to their social media accounts in Australia, after a world-first ban came into effect on Tuesday. Instagram, Facebook, Threads, X, Snapchat, Kick, Twitch, TikTok, Reddit and YouTube are among the platforms required to enforce the new legislation. The Australian…
From BBC News. Ukraine insists it is still resisting Russian advances in the city of Pokrovsk in the eastern part of the country. This comes despite Russian claims last week that it had taken control of the entire city. Pokrovsk has been a key battleground for more than a year, and Ukraine sees it as…
From BBC News. Sudan’s air force has carried out bombings in which at least 1,700 civilians have died in attacks on residential neighbourhoods, markets, schools and camps for displaced people, according to an investigation into air raids in the country’s civil war. The Sudan Witness Project says it has compiled the largest known dataset of…
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From BBC News. Australia is banning social media for children under the age of 16 from December 10. Under-16s will no longer be allowed to have social media accounts, including X, Instagram and TikTok, all existing profiles must be deactivated, and they will not be able to set up new accounts. The Australian government says…
From BBC News. Tensions between Thailand and Cambodia have once again exploded along their shared border, derailing a fragile ceasefire backed by US President Donald Trump. At least three Thai soldiers and seven Cambodian civilians have been killed since Monday, with the countries accusing one another of starting the violence. The clashes, which have also…
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From BBC News. Syrians are marking the first anniversary of the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad. The BBC’s Lina Sinjab has been telling Alex Ritson from the Global News Podcast about where the country is a year on, and the challenges facing its new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. Subscribe to the Global News Podcast wherever you get…
From BBC News. A revolutionary new gene therapy for an aggressive and previously incurable form on blood cancer has had dramatic results. Two-thirds of patients in a trial of the treatment have gone into what doctors are calling “deep remission”, showing no signs of their previously untreatable leukaemia. The treatment has been pioneered at Great…
From BBC News. Today, we discuss President Trump’s new vision for global security, one that is creating a lot of criticism in Europe. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog The 33-page document called the National Security Strategy suggests Europe is facing "civilisational erasure" and does not cast Russia as a threat to the US. Russia says the strategy…
From BBC News. The Royal Navy has unveiled some of the ways it plans to counter what the government regards as an increasingly serious threat from Russia to the UK’s undersea infrastructure. They include new technologies and prototypes, such as unmanned surface vessels, helicopters and autonomous submarine gliders. The Ministry of Defence said in a…
From BBC News. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky met key European allies in London on Monday as he faces US pressure to reach a swift peace deal with Russia. Zelensky held talks with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The meeting came amid US efforts to…