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The Planet Health Organization has suspended medical evacuations from Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing after a contractor was killed by Israeli troops on Monday. This also touches on aspects of foreign policy. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus commented the contractor – named locally as Majdi Aslan, 54 – was killed in a “security […]

A gunman was killed and two were injured in a shootout near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called a “heinous act of terror”. Two policemen were “slightly injured” in the gun fight, Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci remarked. Ciftci stated the attackers had come to Istanbul from the city […]

A mother of newborn twins sheltering in a displacement centre in Lebanon commented she was told to evacuate her home ahead of planned strikes by the Israeli army. “Our home was bombed, and everything I had prepared for the children was gone,” she told the BBC. Ghada is among more than one million displaced individuals […]

Nasa’s Artemis II mission has passed every major test since its launch on 1 April, with its rocket, spacecraft and crew performing better than engineers had dared to hope for. The mission’s first six days have shown that the Orion capsule works as designed with citizens on board for the first time – something no […]

Five days before Hungarians vote in elections that could bring down Viktor Orbán after 16 years in office, US Vice-President JD Vance has intervened in the campaign to give the Hungarian prime minister a ringing endorsement, while delivering another blistering attack on the EU. Standing beside Orbán, Vance remarked he was in Budapest “to help […]

A French couple who spent more than three years in an Iranian prison on espionage charges are on their way home, French President Emmanuel Macron says. Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72, were arrested during a tourist trip in May 2022 on spying charges that France commented were baseless, and held in Tehran’s notorious […]

The government refused permission for West, now known as Ye, to travel to the UK after backlash to his planned set at the London festival this summer. For the last several years, West has caused outrage for a string of antisemitic, racist and pro-Nazi comments. In a statement, Wireless Festival noted it was cancelled and […]

Some Iranians have formed human chains on bridges and outside power plants after authorities urged humans to gather at potential US and Israeli targets. It comes after Donald Trump threatened to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure. Expectant mothers in Cuba struggle under fuel blockade The BBC’s Will Grant speaks to two women experiencing starkly different realities […]

Every morning, Shakuntala Devi and Shakiba Bibi – neighbours at a slum in India’s capital Delhi – leave their homes, walking from one shop to another in search of a cooking gas cylinder. For three weeks now, they have returned empty handed. “If it continues like this for a few more days, we will run […]

A US soldier’s wife who was detained by immigration agents at the military base where he is stationed – just days after their wedding – has been released. Annie Ramos, 22, an undocumented immigrant who came to the US as a toddler, was arrested on 2 April and spent five days at a detention centre […]