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Watch: Couple on board yacht that drifted towards Russian warship speak to BBC NewsnightA retired British couple who were on a yacht which had warning shots fired near it by a Russian warship in the English Channel have told the BBC the experience was “surreal”.Jane and Alan Kelvey were sailing 23 miles (37km) off the Isle of Wight in international waters when they came into close contact with the Russian frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich on Tuesday.Sir Keir Starmer said firing shots into the path of a UK-registered yacht was “reckless” – an incident the Ministry of Defence has described as…
ReutersThe gold-covered Dome of the Rock dominates the al-Aqsa mosque compound”The whole land of Israel was promised to the children of God… and this is where we are going to build a new Temple for the entire humanity to come and pray together.”Those were the potentially incendiary words of Moshe Feiglin, a right-wing nationalist Israeli politician, who spoke to me as he came down from the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, where he had been praying and singing religious songs with a group of around 20 other religious Jews.Feiglin spoke openly and clearly, almost as if his argument was neither…
Thuthuka Zondi / BBCEsnat Joseph said a gang of men came to her home in Durban to threaten the family – forcing her to flee with her tripletsSouth Africa has become a hostile place for undocumented migrants, as a deadline set by protesters for them to leave the country approaches.”I am very scared and traumatised,” Esnat Joseph, a 36-year-old Malawian woman, told the BBC as she tried to comfort her crying one-year-old triplets.She fled her home in an informal settlement in the port city of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal province, seeking refuge in an open field where up to 7,000 foreigners…
Getty ImagesAfter the government’s announcement on Monday, we know a social media ban is coming for under-16s in the UK.However, details on which apps are and are not included, besides those named by the government, and how the measures will extend to gaming sites like Roblox, remain sparse.And many are already asking whether enforcing the ban will mean cracking down on virtual private networks (VPNs), which can disguise someone’s location online.Ministers have said they will provide an update on further restrictions like potential curfews, curbing of “addictive” features like infinite scroll and AI chatbots, in July.When will social media ban…
PA MediaTelevision presenter Jeremy Clarkson has revealed he has been diagnosed with cancer.The news was announced in an episode of his television series, Clarkson’s Farm, released on Wednesday. It is not clear exactly when the footage was taken, but the series was filmed in 2024 and 2025.Clarkson, 66, is seen telling series regulars Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland of his diagnosis, both of whom were visibly shocked by the news.The former Top Gear presenter did not clarify what type of cancer he had been diagnosed with, but described it as “aggressive” and that a portion of his prostate had been…
NEW YORK (news agencies) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week refused to release a cruise ship passenger exposed to hantavirus in early May from a quarantine facility in Nebraska, despite a federal medical review that said there’s no need to confine her far from her Florida home. The order from Kennedy, one of the nation’s most prominent critics of vaccine mandates, lockdowns and other government public health restrictions, spurred outrage from some advocates and legal scholars, who called it illegal and rooted in politics rather than public health. Five weeks after she left the cruise ship,…
Extraordinary Messi makes more history in masterclass for the agesKylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland both enjoyed a fine start to the World Cup – but on a day packed with superstars, Lionel Messi still took top billing.1 hr agoWorld Cup
ReutersAn estimated 50,000 homes have been damaged or destroyed in Lebanon during the warOn Monday, hours after the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, families that had been displaced because of the war began to return to communities in southern Lebanon, despite warnings from the authorities that it was not safe yet. In a video widely shared online, some residents arrived by car in a village to find an Israeli armoured vehicle blocking a street.Exhausted after more than three months of conflict, the people of Lebanon hoped the truce would also stop the fighting here between…
LIVEMessi scores his first World Cup hat trick in his sixth World Cup to beat Algeria – reactionLionel Messi scored his first World Cup hat trick on his 200th cap as Argentina beat Algeria.
ReutersThe son of jailed former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been convicted by Brazil’s highest court of pursuing US intervention during his father’s coup trial last year. Eduardo Bolsonaro, 41, was charged last year with lobbying US authorities to help the ex-president by imposing tariffs or sanctions on Brazil. A former congressman in Brazil, Eduardo relocated to the US in 2025 before his father, who governed the country from January 2019 to December 2022, was found guilty of plotting a military coup and given a 27 year sentence. Eduardo wrote on social media Tuesday calling the conviction “baseless and senseless”,…