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Getty ImagesHundreds of migrants were pictured lined up on a beach in Ceuta to collect aid Spain has threatened to impose counter-measures on Italy if it fails to lift border controls introduced following the mass crossing of migrants into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.Roughly 78,000 migrants from neighbouring Morocco arrived in Ceuta by sea in a matter of hours on Thursday and Friday last week.In the wake of the crossings, which saw around 100 people die, Italy partially suspended its Schengen arrangement with Spain, which included the closure of maritime and air entry points as well as the reinforcement of…
Met PoliceLevy was found guilty of murdering Sheryl Wilkins (l), 39, and Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 54A serial sex offender who was being monitored by the Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third in London.Simon Levy killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins five months later.The 40-year-old also raped a third woman in January 2025, before the murders, in the same Tottenham car park where Ms Wilkins was later found dead.During his trial at the Old Bailey, jurors heard Levy had a string of convictions for attacking women dating back to…
Getty ImagesRepublican Senator Lisa Murkowski announced she would oppose President Donald Trump’s nominee for US attorney general, citing concerns over the “politicisation” of the Justice Department.Trump seeks to install Todd Blanche, his former personal defence attorney who is currently acting attorney general, to run the Justice Department on a permanent basis but he has faced opposition from a small number of Republicans.”The politicization – even weaponization – of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it,” Murkowski wrote on X.Without the Alaska senator’s vote, Blanche’s confirmation is now in jeopardy.Leavitt said Blanche was “exceptionally qualified”…
Getty ImagesGerman energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior (DoI).RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.”After careful consideration, it was determined there is no path forward to permit these projects in the US for the foreseeable future,” the company said in a statement.RWE said it has agreed to relinquish its leases off the California and Louisiana coasts…
Jens Schlueter/Getty ImagesA special robot was sent to remove the detonator from the deviceAs Germany investigates how a drone loaded with explosives reached a runway at Leipzig airport, there is renewed talk in Europe of hybrid war.The interior minister is warning of a “new level of danger” from an attack that “may involve foreign powers”.There is no proof at this stage to link the flying bomb directly to Russia, which denies any role. But as well as the means and the motive, Moscow does have form.The BBC has seen details of the investigation into a plot in 2024 in which…
Getty ImagesRepublican Congressman Andy Ogles has lost his House primary in Tennessee, becoming the second Trump-endorsed candidate to be defeated this week.Former Tennessee agricultural commissioner Charlie Hatcher defeated the two-term congressman in Thursday’s Republican contest for the state’s 5th congressional district. Hours before polls closed, US President Donald Trump said Ogles had his “complete and total endorsement for re-election”.It follows the defeat of a Trump-backed Republican candidate in Michigan on Wednesday, although there were also several wins for candidates he endorsed.El-Sayed win causes shockwaves and other takeaways from primariesAll 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats will…
WASHINGTON (news agencies) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new kind of flu vaccine for older people, the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturer Moderna said.The shot, named mFlusiva, is intended for adults age 50 or older. Other brands of flu shots already have begun arriving in pharmacies ahead of fall vaccination season, and Moderna said late Wednesday that it expects some of its new version to be available soon at select retailers.While there already are multiple flu vaccine options in the U.S., including three specifically recommended…
Students shelter in classroom as gunshots heardOn Friday morning, as the final classes of the week were under way, panicked students began streaming out of a prestigious school just outside Bangkok.Inside, police say, a 14-year-old boy had opened fire.”I was standing in front of the teacher when she was shot,” a shaken seventh grader tells the BBC, near the gates of Debsirin School in Nonthaburi. “She was talking to me when [the gunman] showed up.”Still in her uniform, with her mother by her side, she explains how the shooter stalked from room to room.”I had to climb over the school…
Watch: Trump signs executive orders targeting birthright citizenshipDonald Trump is trying again to scale back birthright citizenship in the US, weeks after the Supreme Court shot down his previous attempt to eliminate the right.The president signed two executive orders on Thursday, including one that expands the existing definitions of non-citizens whose children are not eligible for birthright citizenship.The second order bans so-called birth tourism, the practice of pregnant mothers coming to the US to give birth so that their babies will be citizens. “This should have happened years ago, but we’re taking care of it now,” Trump said from the…
‘We have nowhere to return to’: How Russia is seizing homes in occupied UkraineAt least 34,002 Ukrainian properties have been seized or identified for seizure since 2024, a BBC Verify and BBC Russian investigation has found.