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AFGHANISTAN MOI By Joe Inwood BBC Newsnight About 200 members of Afghan special forces, trained and funded by the UK, face imminent deportation to their Taliban-controlled homeland, the BBC has learned. The figures – gathered by a network of Afghan veterans – reveal the scale of what one former UK general calls a “betrayal” and

Reuters Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is “narrowing the window” for a new truce, the Qatari prime minister has said. Speaking at the Doha Forum, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said Qatar would continue its efforts to pressure both sides into a ceasefire. The gulf state played a key role negotiating the week-long pause in violence

BBC/Tony Jolliffe By Jonathan Amos and Alison Francis BBC News, Science The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago. The 2m-long fossil is one of the most complete

Reuters By Fiona Nimoni BBC News A senior UN aid official has warned that half of Gaza’s population is starving, as fighting there continues. Carl Skau, deputy director of the UN World Food Programme, said only a fraction of supplies needed have been able to enter the Strip – and nine out of 10 people

EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock By Jeremy Bowen BBC International editor, Jerusalem UN secretary general António Guterres spoke this afternoon about the “serious risk to the maintenance of international peace and security”, citing the spillover of hostilities in “the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen”. He triggered Article 99, prompting Friday’s UN Security Council vote, because he

Feras Al-Shaer By Merlyn Thomas and Ethar Shalaby BBC Verify and BBC Arabic As Israel presses its military offensive across Gaza, the army has been repeatedly advising some two million civilians to move to a “humanitarian zone” smaller than London’s Heathrow Airport. Al-Mawasi is a narrow strip of land by the Mediterranean Sea. It has

PA Media By Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News The UK has given Rwanda a further £100m this year as part of its deal to relocate asylum seekers there. The payment was made in April, the Home Office’s top civil servant said in a letter to MPs, after £140m had already been sent to the African nation.

By Branwen Jeffreys and Sallie George BBC News At 2:15am on Christmas morning last year, Ruth Perry woke and wrote down her thoughts while her two teenage daughters and husband slept. “I.N.A.D.E.Q.U.A.T.E keeps flashing behind my eyes.” She had been head teacher at Caversham Primary School, in Reading, for 13 years – the school had

EPA By Becky Morton Political reporter Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister, saying the government’s emergency Rwanda legislation “does not go far enough”. He said “stronger protections” were needed to end “the merry-go-round of legal challenges which risk paralysing the scheme”. The government said the bill, unveiled earlier, made clear in UK law Rwanda

Facebook By Adriana Elgueta BBC News A woman who was shot dead in east London on Tuesday evening has been named locally as Lianne Gordon. She was killed at the scene of the attack in Lower Clapton, Hackney, where a man, 20, and a 16-year-old boy also sustained gunshot wounds. The 42-year-old’s neighbours have described

BBC/Nik Millard By Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent, Jerusalem The BBC has seen and heard evidence of rape, sexual violence and mutilation of women during the 7 October Hamas attacks. WARNING: CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND RAPE Several people involved in collecting and identifying the bodies of those killed in the attack

Getty Images By Nick Triggle Health correspondent Junior doctors in England are to stage more strikes, in December and January, after rejecting a new pay offer put forward in talks with government. The British Medical Association (BMA) union said the proposal was worth an extra 3% on average this year. This is on top of

By Paul Seddon Politics reporter, BBC News The government will hike the minimum salary required for foreign workers to take jobs in the UK, as part of plans to slash migration. The minimum salary needed to get a skilled worker visa will rise from £26,200 to £38,700 next year. The rise featured in a five-point

EPA By Marita Moloney BBC News Hamas had a premeditated plan to use sexual violence as a weapon of war, an Israeli women’s rights campaigner and lawyer has said. Prof Ruth Halperin-Kaddari said she saw footage of women in several locations whose condition left her in “no doubt” that they had been raped. There has

Getty Images Israeli ground forces are pushing into southern Gaza, after three days of heavy bombardment. Initial reports from Israeli army radio effectively confirmed Israel has launched a ground operation to the north of Khan Younis. The BBC has also verified images of an Israeli tank operating near the city. The head of the Israel

Reuters By Christy Cooney BBC News A man has died and two others have been injured in a knife and hammer attack on a street in central Paris. France’s Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said an attacker had targeted tourists around the Quai de Grenelle, which is close to the Eiffel Tower. He added that a