A Texas showdown could reshape Congress
Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent Watch: Texas Speaker plans civil arrest warrants against absent Democrats Dozens of Texas Democrats have secretly left the state in a dramatic effort to stop…
US Attorney General orders grand jury hearings on Trump-Russia probe
US Attorney General Pam Bondi has ordered prosecutors to open legal proceedings into allegations that political opponents of Donald Trump may have conspired to falsely accuse him of colluding with…
'Hiroshima survivor stories were painful to draw'
Hiroshima students have spent weeks visualising the stories of survivors from the atomic bomb and turning them into art. Source link
Romania’s first democratic leader with a divisive legacy
Mircea Barbu BBC News in Bucharest Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images Iliescu at Romania’s presidential palace in 1993, during his first of three terms in office Ion Iliescu, a figure…
Chikungunya virus: China reports 7,000 cases
Kelly Ng BBC News, Singapore Getty Images Guangdong authorities have vowed to take “decisive and forceful measures” to stop the spread of the disease More than 7,000 cases of a…
Nasa to build nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030
Georgina Rannard Science correspondent NASA A concept image of NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project US space agency Nasa will fast-track plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon by…
Bill and Hillary Clinton subpoened in House committee’s Epstein probe
Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary are among a range of high-profile names to receive subpoenas from a congressional committee to testify about deceased sex offender Jeffrey…
Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu dies aged 95
Former Romanian President Ion Iliescu, who presided over the country’s chaotic transition from communism to democracy, has died aged 95. Iliescu had been diagnosed with lung cancer and hospitalised in…
Texas Republicans vote to arrest Democrats stalling redistricting vote
Ana Faguy and Max Matza BBC News Watch: Texas Speaker plans civil arrest warrants against absent Democrats Texas Republicans have voted for the arrest of dozens of Democratic legislators who…
Besieged el-Fasher city residents face starvation, UN warns
The UN’s food agency has warned that families trapped within the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher face starvation. The World Food Programme (WFP) said it had not been able to…