Max Matza & Regan Morris BBC News, Washington state and Los Angeles Moment BBC interview is interrupted by tsunami siren Many Hawaiians heeded official advice to leave coastal areas after a powerful earthquake thousands of miles away near Russia caused tsunami waves to reach the US state and other parts of the Pacific. Waves several … Read more
Security officers inspect the site where militants indiscriminately opened fired on tourists the previous day, in Pahalgam. | Photo Credit: AP Home Minister Amit Shah’s account of forces killing who he said were three Pakistanis involved in the April attack on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir was “replete with fabrications”, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said on … Read more
new video loaded: In Conversation with Brazil’s President Lula By Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Christina Shaman, Laura Salaberry and Jon Hazell•July 30, 2025 In an interview with Jack Nicas of The New York Times, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva rejected President Trump’s demands for Brazil. Here’s how the United States and Brazil reached this point. Recent … Read more
Ukraine’s armed forces have confirmed a Russian missile strike hit a military training unit, causing a number of casualties. Ukrainian ground forces said late on Tuesday that three service personnel were known to have been killed and 18 had been wounded. The military did not say where the training ground was located, although one Ukrainian … Read more
India told a high-level UN conference that global efforts must now focus on achieving a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict through “purposeful dialogue and diplomacy”. It also said that one should not be content with paper solutions but strive to achieve practical ones. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said on … Read more
YouTube will be included in Australia’s world-first social media ban for children under 16, after the government ditched a previous exemption for the platform. The video sharing site was set to be excluded from the ban – which will limit TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and Snapchat and is due to start in December. Under the … Read more
FILE PHOTO: Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York speaks alongside William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office, at a news conference announcing charges against Ghislaine Maxwell for her role in the sexual exploitation and abuse of minor girls by Jeffrey Epstein in New York … Read more
A new law in Brazil could cause “significant environmental harm and human rights violations”, and represents a “rollback for decades” of protections in Brazil, including for the Amazon, a UN expert has told BBC News. Plans to speed up approvals for development projects were criticised by Astrid Puentes Riaño, a UN special rapporteur, as the … Read more
People carry relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private U.S.-backed aid group that has bypassed the longstanding U.N.-led system in the territory, as displaced Palestinians return from an aid distribution centre in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP A worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in … Read more
EPA Pope Leo XIV has told the Vatican’s first Mass for Catholic social media influencers that human dignity needs to be protected online as the world faces the “challenge” of artificial intelligence (AI). “Nothing that comes from man and his creativity should be used to undermine the dignity of others,” the Pope said in St … Read more