April 2024

Sources tell the BBC that resignation is now an option – although he has not yet made a final decision.

1 hour ago About sharing India’s 200 million Muslims is the largest minority in the world’s most populous country By Soutik Biswas India correspondent Six years ago, a Muslim boy returned red-faced from a well-known school in the northern Indian city of Agra. “My classmates called me a Pakistani terrorist,” the nine-year-old told his mother….

25 minutes ago About sharing The attack happened 10 metres off the shore (file image) By Lauren Turner BBC News A British man seriously injured in a shark attack in Tobago is “aware of what is happening” and “able to communicate”, his wife has said. Peter Smith, 64, was on the Caribbean island with wife…

35 minutes ago About sharing A World Central Kitchen vehicle destroyed in the Israeli airstrike earlier this month By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News World Central Kitchen is to resume distributing food in Gaza, nearly a month after seven of its aid workers were killed in an Israeli air strike. The aid organisation said it has…

Police have identified the victim as a man is his 60s from Salford after remains were found in a nature reserve.

Taoiseach says the migration policies of other countries can’t be allowed to undermine those of Ireland.

2 hours ago About sharing More than half of Gaza’s population has been displaced to Rafah By George Wright BBC News Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge. Mr Abbas, who…

19 minutes ago About sharing Much of the fighting has been taking place around Chasiv Ya By George Wright BBC News Ukraine’s commander-in-chief has said the situation on the frontline has worsened in the face of multiple Russian attacks. Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from positions in the eastern Donetsk region. Russia is…

28 minutes ago About sharing The first flight to Rwanda was scheduled for June 2022, but was cancelled after legal challenges Migrants are to start being detained within weeks in preparation for the first flights taking off to Rwanda, the Home Office has said. It comes after the Guardian reported people would start to be…

30 minutes ago About sharing Dr Attar has made three trips to Gaza since the war began and plans to go back again By Fergal Keane Special correspondent, Jerusalem Sam Attar reckons he left part of his soul in Gaza. It was the part of him that saw suffering and could not turn away. The…