1 hour ago About sharing British sailors, Royal Marines and a US Coast Guard team on HMS Trent intercepted a smuggling speedboat By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News The Royal Navy has seized nearly £17m worth of drugs after it intercepted smuggling speedboats in the Caribbean Sea. Across two operations, HMS Trent seized 200kg of cocaine…
11 hours ago About sharing Chef César Nebrera is having to live in his car By Guy Hedgecoe BBC News, Ibiza César Nebrera pours out a cup of coffee he has brewed on a stove in the boot of his car. The old green Kia saloon sits in the shade of a carob tree just…
25 minutes ago About sharing Elad Katzir was abducted from southern Israel on 7 October Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a man taken hostage and held in Gaza, in an overnight raid on Khan Yunis. Elad Katzir was taken from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the Hamas attacks on southern Israel on…
Simon King BBC Weather Presenter 4 April 2024 Updated 1 hour ago Storm Kathleen will bring strong winds and gales to the UK this weekend. They will be felt quite widely from Saturday, especially in Northern Ireland, southern Scotland and western parts of England and Wales. The storm was named by Met Éireann, the Irish…
10 minutes ago About sharing In November, Former PM Boris Johnson and ex-Australian PM Scott Morrison visited Kibbutz Kfar Aza following the 7 October attack by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip By Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Former prime minister Boris Johnson has said it is “shameful” to call for the UK to end arms…
36 minutes ago About sharing By Jemma Crew BBC News Mexico is cutting ties with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they had “forcibly entered” the embassy in a “flagrant violation of international law”. Glas took refuge in…
7 hours ago About sharing The impact of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, Hualien When disasters happen, particularly when big earthquakes strike, the world’s media is drawn like flies to the most dramatic destruction. It is understandable. But it often portrays a distorted picture of what has happened. You…
Attacks on the closest big city to the Russian border have been intensifying in recent weeks.
39 minutes ago About sharing By Merlyn Thomas & Jake Horton BBC Verify It has been nearly six months since Hamas fighters broke through from Gaza into Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking hundreds hostage. In response, Israel vowed to “crush and destroy Hamas” so that it no longer posed any…
27 minutes ago About sharing Seven aid workers were killed in three drone strikes on a convoy of vehicles By Sean Seddon BBC News An aid organisation has called for an independent investigation into the killing of seven of its workers by Israeli drone strikes in Gaza. It comes after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)…