What happens when you become US president? | BBC News

From BBC News. When Donald Trump won the US presidential election in 2024, he had 76 days to juggle a $6 trillion budget, hire 4,000 political appointees, and move into the White House, all before inauguration day. Becoming US president is a crash course of classified secrets, nuclear codes and White House living – all…

LIVE: Swiss ski resort fire | BBC News

From BBC News. "Several dozen" people are presumed to have died in a fire in a bar at a Swiss ski resort, authorities have said, with around 100 more injured. The fire began at around 01:30 (00:30 GMT) in a bar called Le Constellation in Crans-Montana. The cause of the fire is not known, although…

Israel to bar 37 aid groups from Gaza | BBC News

From BBC News. Israel is to revoke the licenses of 37 aid groups working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, saying they failed to meet requirements under new registration rules. Well-known international non-governmental organisations such as ActionAid, the International Rescue Committee and the Norwegian Refugee Council are among those that will have their licenses…

Afcon ‘bringing hope’ to Sudan amid civil war | BBC News

From BBC News. Sudan’s participation in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) is "bringing hope" to the nation’s people amid its civil war, forward Abobaker Eisa says. The country has been in the grip of what the United Nations calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis since April 2023, when a power struggle between the army…