At least 194 people have died in the last 24 hours in heavy monsoon floods and landslides in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir.Most of the deaths, 180, were recorded by disaster authorities in the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in north-west Pakistan....
Rachel Hagan & Ruth ComerfordBBC NewsReutersA major blaze in Turkey forced hundreds from their homesA scorching heatwave is fuelling dozens of wildfires across parts of southern Europe, forcing thousands of people from their homes and pushing temperatures above 40C (104F).Red...
US Vice-President JD Vance and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy have hosted a meeting of security officials near London to discuss the war in Ukraine. The talks are said to have been called at the request of the US.The pair...
US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order hitting India with an additional 25% tariff over its purchases of Russian oil. That will raise the total tariff on Indian imports to the United States to 50% - among the...
A woman in New Zealand has been arrested after a two-year-old girl was found in her luggage while she was travelling on a bus. Police said officers were called to a bus stop in Kaiwaka, a small town in the...
David GrittenBBC News, JerusalemJames ChaterBBC News, SydneyGetty ImagesFunerals have been taking place of Palestinians killed while seeking humanitarian aid in the Zikim area of Gaza City.US special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Gaza on Friday to inspect food distribution sites,...
A 12-year-old boy was among 17 people killed as gunmen fired into a bar in Ecuador, the latest mass shooting in a country ravaged by drug violence.Ecuador's attorney general's office said 14 others were injured in the attack on Sunday...
ReutersAlmost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN's food aid programme has warned."Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment," the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement...
Two years ago, Hamas was putting the finishing touches to its plan to attack Israel. In Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believed that the Palestinians were a problem to be managed. The real threat, he insisted, was Iran.Netanyahu's rhetoric opposing...
Getty ImagesAt least 34 people have died and several are still missing after a tourist boat capsized in Vietnam during bad weather.The incident took place in Ha Long Bay, a popular tourist destination in the north of the country.Most of...
