EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock US Vice-President Kamala Harris says people in Gaza “are starving” and has urged Israel to “significantly increase the flow of aid” there. She said “there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks”, which would “get the [Israeli] hostages out”. Earlier, Israel did not attend truce talks in Egypt, saying
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Becky Morton & Laura Kuenssberg BBC Politics Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said he wants to move towards lower taxes, but will only do so in “a responsible way”. He told the BBC it would be “unconservative”
The US has carried out its first air drop of aid for Gaza, with more than 30,000 meals parachuted in by three military planes. The drop involved three C-130 transport planes, a spokesman for the US Central Command told the AFP news agency. US sources told the BBC’s partner CBS the drop was the first
Reuters By Christy Cooney BBC News Many of the people treated for injuries following a rush on an aid convoy in Gaza on Thursday suffered gunshot wounds, the UN has said. UN observers visited Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital and saw some of the roughly 200 people still being treated. Hamas, which governs Gaza, has accused
Reuters By Paul Brown BBC Verify At least 112 Palestinians were killed as crowds rushed around lorries delivering desperately needed food aid in the small hours of Thursday morning. Hundreds of people descended on the line of vehicles as it travelled in darkness northwards along the coastal road just outside Gaza City, accompanied by the
I’ve never covered a by-election like it. Bizarre, noisy, angry, colourful. 11 candidates, all men. Oh, and wildly unpredictable. Candidates disowned. And the local and the international jostling alongside each other for attention. The big characters: the two former Labour MPs, George Galloway and Simon Danczuk. The candidates abandoned, not least Azhar Ali, who won
Social media By Paul Adams & David Gritten BBC News, in Jerusalem and London More than 110 Palestinians are reported to have been killed while trying to get desperately needed aid in north Gaza. Crowds of waiting civilians descended on a convoy of lorries after it passed through an Israeli military checkpoint on the coastal
PA Media By Jennifer McKiernan & Doug Faulkner BBC News Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned police chiefs of a “growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule”. He wants more robust police responses that he says are needed to protect politicians and democratic processes. This includes an “immediate response” from police to intimidatory
By Megan Bonar BBC Scotland News Iain Packer has been convicted of murdering Emma Caldwell in remote woods almost 19 years ago. The 27-year-old’s death in April 2005 had been one of Scotland’s most high-profile unsolved murders. The sex worker’s body was found in Limefield Woods, South Lanarkshire, in May 2005 – five weeks after
Getty Images By Joe Crowley BBC Panorama A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world’s most precious forests, the BBC has found. Papers obtained by Panorama show Drax took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were “no go areas”. It
House of Commons/UK Parliament By Dearbail Jordan Business reporter, BBC News The former Post Office chairman has shocked MPs by claiming that the company’s current chief executive Nick Read is under investigation. Henry Staunton made the allegation at a hearing to discuss compensation payments to sub-postmasters at the centre of the Horizon scandal. Alan Bates,
BBCCopyright: BBC Nagham Atef Mezied, 22, is in Deir el-Balah. She is a medical student and volunteer doctor. She shares what her morning has been like with us: Time is now 9am. This is my breakfast. I usually have breakfast at 6am but now we are trying to delay having breakfast so we don’t need
PA Media By Kate Whannel Political reporter, BBC News Ex-Tory party deputy chair Lee Anderson has said his words were clumsy but has refused to apologise for suggesting Sadiq Khan is controlled by Islamists. Mr Anderson was suspended as a Tory MP following his remarks, which he says were borne out of frustration at the
PA MediaCopyright: PA Media On Friday, former Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson told GB News that “Islamists” had “got control” of the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. On Saturday, Anderson was suspended from the Conservative party after “refusing to apologise” for those comments. Khan responded, describing Anderson’s remarks as, “Islamophobic, anti-Muslim and racist”. The London
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deputy prime minister has declined to say whether it was Islamophobic for Lee Anderson to say London Mayor Sadiq Khan is controlled by “Islamists”. Oliver Dowden also said Mr Anderson, who was suspended as a Tory
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sam Cabral BBC News, in Columbia, South Carolina Donald Trump is one step closer to the Republican presidential nomination after a massive win over Nikki Haley in South Carolina. The former president won his primary opponent’s
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