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Sunday, 05 June 2022
Russian forces have entered the city of Severodonetsk, as they continue their attempts to capture the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. One of the region's governors says that the bombardment of...
Saturday, 04 June 2022
President Joe Biden has said the US should ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to tackle the "carnage" of gun violence.
In a primetime speech to the nation from the White House,...
Monday, 30 May 2022
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the Kharkiv region, on the country's battered eastern front line.
It was his first official trip outside the Kyiv region since the Russian...
Monday, 30 May 2022
The gunman who attacked a school in Texas on Tuesday was able to enter the building unobstructed, police say.
Texas Ranger Victor Escalon said no armed guard challenged the teenage attacker and it is...
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
A Russian diplomat has quit his job in protest at the "bloody, witless" war "unleashed by Putin against Ukraine".
Boris Bondarev, whose LinkedIn says he worked at the Russian mission to the UN in Geneva,...
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Turkey's president has restated his opposition to Finland and Sweden joining Nato - just hours after they said they would seek membership.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the two Scandinavian nations need not...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Vladimir Putin is preparing for a long war in Ukraine, with even victory in the east potentially not ending the conflict, US intelligence has warned.
The warning comes as fierce fighting continues in...
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Angry mobs in Sri Lanka have burned down several homes belonging to the ruling Rajapaksas and MPs, after they were attacked by government supporters.
The violence capped a day of unrest that saw PM Mahinda...
Thursday, 05 May 2022
About 2,000 civilians are reportedly trapped by fighting in the front line town of Popasna in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, the main focus of Russia's attempt to gain territory.
Local officials say...
Tuesday, 03 May 2022
Vira Kryvoshenko kneeled on the ground by her front door and pressed her hands together in a prayer: please do not take my son.
It was only blind bad luck that Valeriy had arrived at the same time as...
Monday, 02 May 2022
US police are searching for an escaped inmate who is facing murder charges, and a guard who disappeared with him.
Inmate Casey White and corrections officer Vicki White were last seen on Friday morning...
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
The village of Senkivka in Ukraine is situated at the nexus of the border crossing between Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Once the site of festivals that celebrated the friendship between the three countries,...
Monday, 25 April 2022
With Mariupol almost under full Russian control after weeks of bombardment, those who have escaped the southern Ukrainian city share chilling accounts of being held in cramped, unclean, processing...
Thursday, 21 April 2022
A Russian tycoon has lambasted the country's "massacre" in Ukraine and called for an end to the "crazy war".
Oleg Tinkov wrote in a profanity-littered Instagram post that he did not see "any beneficiary"...
Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region.
Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on Monday and in a video address...
Monday, 18 April 2022
Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal has said defenders of the besieged port of Mariupol will fight to the end against Russian forces.
The city has not yet fallen despite a Russian ultimatum to remaining Ukrainian...
Sunday, 17 April 2022
The Russians have withdrawn from areas around Kyiv, but they've left deeply wounded lives that might never recover from the trauma. The BBC has heard first-hand testimony and found evidence of...
Monday, 11 April 2022
It is to be a re-run of the 2017 second round, where Emmanuel Macron pulverised Marine Le Pen. But this time around, let no-one be under any illusion that it will be so easy.
Estimations from...
Wednesday, 06 April 2022
Volodymyr Abramov was desperately trying to put out the fire in his home, in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, and calling out for his son-in-law to help.
Russia troops had smashed through the front gates of...
Tuesday, 05 April 2022
Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban has won a fourth term by a landslide in the country's general elections, near-complete results show.
His right-wing Fidesz party had 53.1% of votes with...
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