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From BBC News. President Donald Trump has said the US will take “very strong action” against Iran if it executes protesters. It comes as relatives of 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, who was detained last week, told BBC Persian he is due to be executed today. More than 2,400 anti-government demonstrators have been killed in a violent…
From BBC News. The family of A 26-year-old protester in Iran have been told he will be executed tomorrow, after he was arrested and sentenced to death for joining anti-regime demonstrations. Erfan Soltani, a resident of Fardis, west of Tehran, was arrested at home and handed a death sentence three days later, as the regime…
From BBC News. US President Donald Trump has urged Iranian anti-government protesters to "keep protesting", saying "help is on its way". Thousands of people are feared dead after a crackdown on weeks of anti-government protests in Iran. Iranians describe terrible levels of death and destruction in their first calls to family abroad in days. An…
From BBC News. Today, US President Trump has urged Iranians to keep protesting, saying that “help is on its way”. News agencies and BBC journalists are reporting that the death toll after anti-government protests is now in its thousands, as the state-imposed internet blackout continues. But what does President Trump mean and what’s next for…
From BBC News. Last year, the leader of the French far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, was banned from running for public office after being found guilty of embezzling EU funds. It means – as it stands – she is not able to run in next year’s presidential election. Now, she is appealing that…
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From BBC News. Greenland’s prime minister has said his people would choose Denmark over the US if they were asked to make such a choice "here and now". Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s remark at a joint news conference with Denmark’s prime minister is the strongest by a representative of the semi-autonomous Danish territory since US President Donald…
From BBC News. US President Donald Trump has urged Iranian anti-government protesters to "keep protesting", saying “help is on its way”. "I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops,” the president wrote on social media platform Truth Social. Trump has recently floated the possibility of intervention in the…
From BBC News. On 3 January, US forces seized Venezuela’s then president, Nicolás Maduro, in a dramatic overnight raid on the capital, Caracas. BBC correspondents Ione Wells and Will Grant join Mimi Swaby to look at what happened and what it means for Venezuela now. Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog For more news, analysis and features visit:…
From BBC News. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said several hundred thousand people in and around Kyiv are without power today after another Russian missile strike. Parts of the capital are being without heating and electricity for several days now and in sub-zero temperatures. Four people were reportedly killed overnight in Kharkiv and a former…
From BBC News. The US state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration in an attempt to block a surge of federal immigration agents into the state. The lawsuit argues the deployment amounts to an unconstitutional "federal invasion". Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison said immigration operations had upended life for millions and caused "chaos and…
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From BBC News. Almost 650 protesters have been killed by Iranian security forces in anti-government demonstrations that have swept Iran since the 28 December, according to one human rights group. But sources in Iran have told the BBC the death toll is likely to be higher than reported. Coach Amir Mohammad Koohkan, 26, and student…
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From BBC News. US President Donald Trump has announced countries doing business with Iran will face a 25% tariff on trade with the US, in response to a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests. Trump has also been briefed on a range of military and covert options for use in the country, officials have told the…
From BBC News. Today Chris and Adam are down in City Hall to speak to the mayor of London, Sir Sadiq Khan. He defended London against claims by critics like President Trump and Nigel Farage that the city in unsafe, and pointed to the falling murder rate as proof of a positive counter narrative. Plus…
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From BBC News. Iran has warned Donald Trump it’s prepared to teach him an "unforgettable lesson". It’s after the US president warned he was considering "very strong options" after the state’s crackdown on anti-government protests. What started as demonstrations over the dire economic situation has now grown into a mass movement. But what action will…
From BBC News. Iran’s foreign minister has claimed that its county’s security forces have brought anti-government protests “under control” following two weeks of unrest across the country. The US-based rights group HRANA has said nearly 500 protesters have been killed since protests began in late December and thousands more have been detained. On Sunday night,…
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From BBC News. Ofcom has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over concerns its AI tool Grok is being used to create sexualised images. The UK watchdog said in a statement that there had been "deeply concerning reports" of the chatbot being used to create and share undressed images of people, as well as…
From BBC News. Doctors say they have achieved the previously impossible – restoring sight and preventing blindness in people with a rare but dangerous eye condition called hypotony. Moorfields hospital in London is the world’s first dedicated clinic for the disorder and seven out of eight patients given the pioneering treatment have responded to the…
From BBC News. In Venezuela, the families of hundreds of political prisoners wait in hope outside the country’s most notorious jail for more news about the government’s promised release of more detainees. The Venezuelan government announced on Thursday it would release detainees considered political prisoners by human rights groups as a "goodwill gesture". On Saturday,…
From BBC News. The UK government has paid "substantial" compensation to a man who was tortured by the CIA and remains imprisoned without trial at Guantanamo Bay after almost 20 years, the BBC can reveal. Abu Zubaydah was the first man subjected to the CIA’s "enhanced interrogation” techniques after the 11 September 2001 attacks. It…
From BBC News. How did South Korea become the world’s second-largest exporter of cosmetics? The promise of pore-free, glassy, youthful-looking skin has made Korean beauty products a global phenomenon. Americans spent as much $1.7bn (£1.3bn) on K-beauty in 2024, according to industry estimates, and the US now imports more cosmetics from South Korea than any…
From BBC News. President Donald Trump says Iranian leaders have contacted the US to "negotiate", as he considers taking military action in the country in response to the killing of protesters. Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One, Trump said a meeting was being set up – but added he may have to act…
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From BBC News. Iran has told President Trump that it will retaliate if attacked, after two weeks of mass protests and warnings from President Trump that the US may intervene. There’s been an increasingly brutal response from the Iranian regime to the protests, with evidence that hundreds of people have been killed by the security…
From BBC News. Since Peter Mandelson’s sacking as US ambassador over his links to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, he’s remained silent, until now. She questions him over Trump, Epstein, and what Number 10 really knew. In this episode we go through what the interview was like, what he said, and why he’s saying it…
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From BBC News. Lord Mandelson has said he never saw girls at Jeffrey Epstein’s properties, and declined to apologise to the late paedophile’s victims for maintaining his friendship with the American because he was not "knowledgeable of what he was doing". Speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg in his first interview since being sacked as…
From BBC News. In an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch says she was "shocked" by Donald Trump’s comments about Greenland – but says now is not the time to discuss a potential deployment of Nato troops. On Iran, she said she would not have an issue with foreign intervention…
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From BBC News. Protesters in Iran defied a government crackdown on Saturday night, taking to the streets despite reports suggesting hundreds of people have been killed or wounded by security forces in the past three days. Iran’s attorney general said anyone protesting would be considered an "enemy of God" – an offence that carries the…
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From BBC News. Today, Laura and Paddy speak to Sir Lawrence Freedman, historian, and Professor of War Studies at King’s College London, to help us understand what’s happening in Iran, as well as the huge foreign news stories of recent times. There’s possible regime change in Iran, where protests continue and authorities issued coordinated warnings…
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From BBC News. US President Donald Trump says the US needs to "own" Greenland to prevent Russia and China from doing so. "Countries have to have ownership and you defend ownership, you don’t defend leases. And we’ll have to defend Greenland," Trump told reporters on Friday. The White House said recently the administration is considering…
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From BBC News. It’s been described as one of the "greatest military operations ever" – the US elite Delta Force going inside the Venezuelan capital in the dead of night to capture then-President Nicolás Maduro. Operation Absolute Resolve was a mission months in the making. So how did they pull it off? The Security Brief…
From BBC News. A video filmed by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Wednesday has emerged, showing the moments before gunfire rang out. The footage shows Good sitting behind the wheel of her car and speaking to the officer. The Trump administration says Good…
From BBC News. Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts that promised better schools have left many with repair bills running into millions. From leaking roofs to broken swimming pools, BBC News Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys investigates what’s going wrong and why it matters for the future of public services. Read the full story: https://bbc.in/4qifPCa For more…
From BBC News. Iran is experiencing its most serious protests in more than 15 years. What began as demonstrations over the country’s failing economy have turned into wider calls for the end of the Islamic Republic. But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said his government will "not back down". So how significant is this…
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From BBC News. Today marks the thirteenth consecutive day of widespread anti-government protests in Iran. Iran’s top security body has warned that the Iranian judiciary and security forces will show "no leniency towards saboteurs", amid internet blackouts. Adam is joined in the Newscast studio by BBC chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, to discuss the context…
From BBC News. Protests have broken out in Minneapolis after a US immigration agent shot dead a 37-year-old woman in the city. Videos posted on social media show the moment of the shooting, in which ICE agents approach a car in the middle of a residential street. As it attempts to drive off, one of…
From BBC News. US forces have seized a fifth tanker in the Caribbean Sea, officials said, as Washington continues its efforts to control exports of Venezuelan oil. "Once again, our joint interagency forces sent a clear message this morning: ‘there is no safe haven for criminals,’" US Southern Command said on X. The X post…
From BBC News. Elon Musk’s platform X has limited Grok Artificial Intelligence (AI) image edits to paid users after significant backlash over people using it to digitally undress people without their consent. Grok is integrated into the social media platform X and it’s been used to generate deep fake sexualised images of women and children.…