Reuters By Will Grant, Central America correspondent BBC News “Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country’s spiralling security crisis. More than a dozen bullet-ridden bodies lay in
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This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Paul Kirby BBC News Vladimir Putin was always going to claim his fifth term as president with a landslide, faced with three other candidates all rubber-stamped by the Kremlin. But when election officials said results gave
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sam Francis Political reporter, BBC News A senior cabinet minister has denied the Conservative Party has a problem with race after accepting at least £10m from a donor who is accused of racism. Transport Secretary Mark
As I walk around Borovsk, two things strike me about this town 60 miles (100km) from Moscow. First, there is almost no sign of the presidential election coming up this weekend. I see few election banners or billboards and no political flyers being handed out. Not surprising, really. The absence of election preparations mirrors the
Family handout By Orla Guerin BBC News, Tel Aviv Rachel Goldberg-Polin now lives by a new calendar – not weeks, or months, but days of absence and anguish. Every morning when she wakes, she writes a number on a piece of tape and sticks it to her clothing. It’s the number of days since her
Officially, no, but unofficially, yes. After Drakeford officially resigns – which is expected to be on Tuesday – the winner of the contest is set to be nominated in the Senedd the following day. If the opposition parties – the Welsh Conservatives, Plaid Cymru or one Liberal Democrat MS – nominate someone else, there could
PA Media By Pritti Mistry BBC News Detectives believe they have identified all 35 bodies recovered at a funeral directors in Hull, which is at the centre of a police investigation. Humberside Police said it has had more than 1,500 calls from people concerned about their loved ones’ remains. Few details about the investigation have
MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/Sputnik/AFP By Laura Gozzi and Francis Scarr BBC News It was at a grand military awards ceremony last December that Vladimir Putin told the Russian public he would stand for the presidency for a fifth time. Voting is now taking place over three days until Sunday, even though the result is not in doubt
PA Media By Sam Francis, political reporter & Hannah Miller, political correspondent BBC News Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said she would “like to see” Diane Abbott back as a Labour MP. The party suspended Ms Abbott 11 months ago for saying Irish, Jewish and Traveller people do not face racism “all their lives”.
The new definition of extremism describes it as “the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance” that aims to “negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others” or “undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights”. The previous definition, introduced in 2011
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Brian Wheeler Political reporter Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has resisted opposition calls to return money to a Conservative donor who reportedly said MP Diane Abbott “should be shot”. The PM said Frank Hester’s alleged comments were
Getty Images By Kayla Epstein BBC News US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump have both passed the delegate thresholds to clinch their parties’ nominations for the election in November. Four states, one American territory and Democrats living abroad held their primaries on Tuesday. The result means US voters face a rematch of
Getty Images Comments allegedly made about Diane Abbott by a Tory donor were “racist and wrong”, Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson has said. Frank Hester, who has donated £10m to the Tories, reportedly said the MP made him want to “hate all black women”. Mr Hester apologised for making “rude” comments but said his words “had nothing
By Alice Cuddy BBC News Palestinian medical staff in Gaza have told the BBC they were blindfolded, detained, forced to strip and repeatedly beaten by Israeli troops after a raid at their hospital last month. Ahmed Abu Sabha, a doctor at Nasser hospital, described being held for a week in detention, where, he said, muzzled
Prince of Wales By Emma Harrison & Sean Coughlan BBC News The Princess of Wales has apologised “for any confusion” after she admitted editing a Mother’s Day photograph of her and her children. Her statement was posted on Kensington Palace social media after five agencies retracted it over editing concerns. “Like many amateur photographers, I
Getty ImagesCopyright: Getty Images There’s always a host of starry names adding to the glamour on Oscars night, which attracts some of the industry’s biggest celebrities. Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh and Zendaya are among the show’s presenters, along with Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser and Jennifer Lawrence. You can also expect
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