Goktay Koraltan / BBC Madina Mustafa Ali (right) says she and her seven-month-old baby Amir will be staying on Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square as they have nowhere else to go Lebanon is a country that knows war all too well. And it is not eager for more. It still bears the scars of 15 years of … Read more
On a brutal day for Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ripped into the institution he heads for a spectrum of sins: for covering up cases of clergy sex abuse and being far behind the times on embracing women and … Read more
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party could win a national election for the first time when Austria votes on Sunday, tapping into voters’ anxieties about immigration, inflation, Ukraine and other concerns following recent gains for the hard right elsewhere in Europe. Herbert Kickl, a former interior minister and longtime campaign strategist who has led the Freedom Party … Read more
Reuters Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the long–standing leader of Hezbollah, is a major escalation in its war with the Lebanese militant group. It has, potentially, brought the region one step closer to a much wider and even more damaging conflict, one that pulls in both Iran and the US. So where is it likely … Read more
Aerial footage reveals the scale of damage caused by the strongest storm on record to hit Florida’s Big Bend. Hurricane Helene is one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the United States with wind gust speeds of 140 mph (225 km/h) and heavy rain. The storm made landfall in Florida overnight on Thursday … Read more
EPA Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described Hassan Nasrallah as “a path and a school of thought” Iran’s supreme leader has said the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “will not go unavenged”, a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of mourning in Iran in … Read more
Reuters The death toll is likely to rise as the rain is forecast to persist until Tuesday At least 66 people have died and 69 others are missing, officials say, after intense rainfall in Nepal caused flooding and landslides. The death toll in the central Asian nation is likely to rise as the rains – … Read more
BBC The view from inside Titan at the surface of a previous Titanic dive “I saw five people smiling, looking forward to their journey.” That was Renata Rojas’ recollection of her time on a support ship with five people bound for the Titanic wreck. They were about to climb into a submersible made by Oceangate. … Read more
Nine people have been killed in twin Russian drone strikes on a hospital in Ukraine’s north-eastern city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials say. They say the building was hit on Saturday morning, and was struck again when rescuers were evacuating people. At least 12 people were injured in the attack that destroyed several floors of the … Read more
Getty Images The annual United Nations General Assembly week is always frenetic. It may be called the Super Bowl of diplomacy, but this year perhaps a more appropriate analogy is a marathon. Not since World War Two have there been so many global conflicts piling up, with Lebanon on the brink just as leaders arrived … Read more