Category: 2. World

Gaza has become worse than hell on Earth, according to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric.

Speaking to the BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Spoljaric…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Wednesday that an explosion took place at the Crimean Bridge, adding that no damage has been done.

On Tuesday, the Russian Ministry of Transport said that traffic on the Crimean Bridge was proceeding…

Lee made the remarks in his inaugural address on Wednesday, just hours after he was declared winner of South Korea’s presidential election.

“The rapid changes in the global order such as rising protectionism and supply chain restructuring…

At least 95 Palestinians have been killed and 440 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Israel’s military has warned starving Palestinians in Gaza against approaching roads to…

“We emphasize the importance of bilateral relations with Lebanon and Iran’s willingness to assist Lebanon and stand by it on the basis of mutual respect and strengthening cooperation,” Araghchi said in this meeting.

Sheikh Naim Qassem also…

The BBC has rejected incorrect White House criticism of its Gaza coverage, describing a claim that it had taken down a story as “completely wrong”.

At Tuesday’s White House briefing President Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the…

The BBC’s Phil Mackie reports from Lagos near Praia da Luz, Portugal where Portuguese and German police are continuing in their search for Madeleine McCann.

As Mackie reports “the clock is ticking” for investigators who only have until Friday to…

The worst of the attacks happened overnight in Khan Younis, where a school was targeted in an Israeli air attack, killing at least 18 people, Al Jazeera reported.

The school was housing displaced families, many newly displaced from eastern Khan…

The German city of Cologne is evacuating some 20,500 people from a large area in the city centre so experts can defuse three unexploded bombs from World War Two.

The American bombs were discovered on Monday in a shipyard in the Deutz…

A top official in one of South Africa’s biggest political parties has been sacked after he visited a controversial Malawian pastor in April.

Floyd Shivambu has been removed as secretary-general of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party barely six months…