29 minutes ago About sharing Anthony Blinken has faced a challenging few days on his visit to the region By Anthony Zurcher Travelling with the US secretary of state For three days, the US’s top diplomat, Antony Blinken, has been dashing around the Middle East, trying to contain a situation that threatens to spin out…
43 minutes ago About sharing By Paul Seddon Politics reporter, BBC News Licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea are set to be awarded annually, under government plans. There is currently no fixed period between licensing rounds – but this would change under a bill to be announced in Tuesday’s King’s Speech….
1 hour ago About sharing By Lucy Hooker Business reporter, BBC News Elon Musk has launched an AI chatbot called Grok on his social media site X, formerly Twitter, but so far it is only available to selected users. “In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists,” he posted on X, before…
1 hour ago About sharing Ibrahim, Yosra and their two young children are now waiting in Egypt By Ashitha Nagesh Community affairs correspondent British people and other foreign nationals who have fled Gaza only have 72 hours – three days – in Egypt before they need to leave. Hundreds of foreign nationals were evacuated from…
1 hour ago About sharing Emotional Díaz lifted his shirt to reveal the words “freedom for papa” after scoring on Sunday Colombian-born Liverpool footballer Luis Díaz has begged for his father’s kidnappers to free him immediately and “end this painful wait”. Both of Díaz’s parents were seized at gunpoint in his hometown of Barrancas by…
About 100 young people threw firebombs and fireworks at riot police deployed to the Niddrie area of Edinburgh.
44 minutes ago About sharing Many of the 128th Brigade’s personnel – as seen in this archive photo – are from Ukraine’s westernmost Transcarpathia region By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News Ukraine’s military chiefs are facing growing criticism over a recent Russian missile strike that is believed to have caused heavy Ukrainian casualties. Ukrainian media and…
Bottled water stations have been set up while supplies are down At a glance Thousands are without water due to a technical issue at a Thames Water treatment works The supplier has apologised, adding the treatment works had been “affected following issues caused by Storm Ciarán” Long queues are building up at water stations and…
22 minutes ago About sharing Fiona looks like a new sheep after being relieved of her overgrown fleece By Calum Watson BBC News A row has broken out over plans to rehome Britain’s loneliest sheep. The ewe, now named Fiona, was rescued on Saturday after being stranded for more than two years at the foot…
13 hours ago About sharing The Iran hostage crisis helped Ronald Reagan beat incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980 A year out, and all the indications are that the 2024 election will be a re-run of 2020 but with the roles reversed – Donald Trump taking on the president, Joe Biden. There’s a widespread sense…