Getty Images Col Assimi Goïta seized power, with a pledge to end insecurity The al-Qaeda flag flutters from an airport building. A jihadist places a burning rag in the engine of the presidential jet, others explore the VIP terminal or fire shots as they approach planes belonging to the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) – … Read more
Getty Images North Carolina’s Lt Gov Mark Robinson denies CNN’s report Controversy swirling around a North Carolina Republican candidate for governor is causing political turbulence in a must-win swing state for Donald Trump. The BBC asked conservatives there what they make of the alleged scandal. It was during a regular meeting of the Johnston County … Read more
CARTENZ 2024 PEACE OPERATION TASK FORCE/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock A bearded Philip Mehrtens is pictured with a local official at a press conference on Saturday after being freed from captivity A New Zealand pilot who has been freed more than 19 months after being taken hostage by separatists in Indonesia says he is “very happy” to be going … Read more
One person has died and seven others are missing, officials said, after “unprecedented” rains caused floods and landslides in the coastal quake-hit region of Ishikawa in northern Japan. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) on Saturday issued its highest “life-threatening” alert level for the Ishikawa region, following torrential rains which are expected to last until midday on … Read more
Footage shot from the road shows a huge explosion at an arms depot near Tikhoretsk in Russia. Ukraine said munitions from North Korea had been among those it was targeting. The governor of the Krasnodar region confirmed it came under Ukrainian drone attack on Friday night. He said debris from a drone had sparked a … Read more
Russia dissident freed in prisoner swap vows to return A dissident freed by Russia in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War has vowed to return to the country one day. Vladimir Kara-Murza told the BBC he initially thought he was being “led out to be executed” when prison officers came in the night … Read more
EPA Women mourn those killed in the strike on a school sheltering displaced people An Israeli air strike on a school in Gaza City has killed at least 22 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry. The school, closed during the war, was housing displaced people, the health ministry said. The … Read more
A dissident freed by Russia in the biggest prisoner swap since the Cold War has vowed to return to the country. Vladimir Kara-Murza told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg he thought he was being “led out to be executed” during his release in Siberia last month. The dual British-Russian citizen realised he was one of 24 … Read more
Eighty years after hundreds of Allied soldiers parachuted from military aircraft into Nazi-occupied Netherlands as part of a daring World War Two offensive, their modern equivalents repeated the jump in commemoration. In an airborne spectacular, 700 paratroopers from eight Nato nations – including the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and the US – parachuted from 12 … Read more
French President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled his new government almost three months after a snap general election delivered a hung parliament. The long-awaited new line up, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, marks a decisive shift to the right, even though a left-wing alliance won most parliamentary seats. Despite the partnership between Macron’s centrist party … Read more