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The knock-on effects of the conflict now whipping through the Middle East are awakening ghosts of crises past that shook the European Union. Seven months into Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched in February 2022, the President of the European Commission stood at her podium in the European Parliament and accused Russia of manipulating the EU's energy market. "They prefer to flare the gas than to deliver it," […]
In the Johannesburg suburb of Greenside, a large group of protesters of all ages and backgrounds are waving placards and banging empty plastic bottles together. "We want water, we want water!" they chant. Northern Johannesburg is known for its plush leafy suburbs. But after years of intermittent water shortages, residents say they are fed up. Some have had no running water for over a month. "Our pipes have been bone […]
US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who was known for advocating for the rights of farm workers, has been accused of sexual abuse. Dolores Huerta said in the 1960s, Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union (UFW) with her, once "manipulated and pressured" her into having sex, and on another occasion forced her. It comes after the New York Times published an investigation on Wednesday that detailed allegations from […]
Israel has launched a series of strikes on Lebanon's capital,Beirut and orders evacuations in the country's south, as it continues its offensive against Hezbollah. One blast flattened a building in the city centre - this isn't the so-called Hezbollah heartland of southern Beirut, but an area surrounded by businesses and hotels, writes the BBC's Wyre Davies from the scene Rescue workers have cleared rubble from a building destroyed by an […]
Zelensky says he does not see 'a great problem' in US-UK relationship Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will face a deficit of missiles it is using to fight Russia due to the war in the Middle East. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, the Ukrainian president said Russia's Vladimir Putin wanted a "long war" between the US, Israel and Iran because it would weaken Kyiv, with US resources being […]
A Chinese man and his Kenyan associate have been charged with illegally dealing in wildlife species after they were caught trying to smuggle more than 2,000 live queen garden ants out of Kenya. Zhang Kequn was arrested at the international airport in the capital Nairobi last week after authorities discovered the large consignment of ants in his luggage, each of them either stashed in a test tube or wrapped in […]
Dozens of people have been killed in an air strike on a drug treatment centre in Afghanistan's capital that the Taliban government blamed on Pakistan. Many more were injured when the Kabul facility was reduced to a blazing ruin on Monday evening. A BBC reporter saw more than 30 bodies carried out on stretchers. Taliban officials put casualties in the hundreds but this has not been confirmed. Pakistan denied […]
Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says he has left the country after spending two months in hiding following January's disputed election. Bobi Wine says he has gone abroad for "critical engagements" and to help mobilise the international community against President Yoweri Museveni. The pop star turned politician, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, repeated his claim to have won the presidential election, saying it had been rigged in favour […]
At least 62 people have died in Kenya over the past week after heavy rains caused widespread flooding, the authorities say. The previous death toll, released a week ago, was 42. Overnight, 11 people were rescued after a minibus taxi, known locally as a matatu, got stuck as water rose in the capital Nairobi, according to the Kenya Red Cross, while two children were saved from a flooded house. The […]
