Celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey are arriving in Venice to attend the extravagant wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. Usher, Kylie Jenner and…
Japan has executed a man who murdered nine people in 2017, the first time since 2022 that the country has enacted capital punishment. The serial killings by Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed…
Sally Nabil BBC World Service Reporting fromQandil Mountains, Iraq MUSTAFA OZER/AFP via Getty Images) When the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced last month that it would disband and end…
The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet reports from the ruins of an Iranian state TV building in Tehran. It was hit by an Israeli missile strike during the recent…
Iranian authorities have carried out a wave of arrests and multiple executions of people suspected of links to Israeli intelligence agencies, in the wake of the recent war between the…
Rushdi Abualouf Gaza Correspondent Reuters People mourn Palestinians who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah At least 18 Palestinians have been killed after an Israeli drone strike…
Issa Tchiroma Bakary – a prominent minister and long-time ally of President Paul Biya – has quit Cameroon’s government, in the hope of ending 92-year-old Biya’s four-decade grip on power…
A large wildfire swept through the coastal towns of Palaia Fokaia and Thymari 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Athens, destroying homes and forcing evacuations as it neared the beach. The…
Rayhan Demytrie BBC South Caucasus correspondent Getty Images Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan faces pivotal elections next year A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic…
One of the two charismatic criminals involved in the kidnapping that gave the world the term “Stockholm syndrome” has died aged 78, his family has said. Clark Oloffson – who…
