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Watch: Train derailed and buildings on fire after earthquakeAerial footage shows the aftermath of the earthquake in Kumamoto prefecture.1 hr ago
LIVETrump to meet Zelensky and Netanyahu separately at White House The world leaders are in Washington for Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral.
LIVEWildfire fight is ‘David against Goliath’ says French fire service, as new heatwave hitsA major wildfire is burning around nine miles from the outskirts of Bordeaux – although officials say the city itself is not yet under threat.
LIVEMany people trapped inside Japanese shopping centre after earthquake, fire service saysA magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit inland on Kyushu island at 16:27 local time (07:27 GMT).
Universal PicturesLupita Nyong’o stars as Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan’s The OdysseySir Christopher Nolan’s latest film, The Odyssey, may have won rave reviews from critics and done storming business at the box office – but one person is definitely not happy.Emily Wilson, the academic whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Odyssey was cited by the director as an influence on his adaptation of the poem, has written a scathing review of the movie.Published in the London Review of Books, Wilson said she “would be ashamed to have written any of this script”, describing the film’s narrative structure as “gimmicky.””The writing…
Getty ImagesFrance’s UN ambassador Jerome Bonnafont spoke at the UN Security Council in New York on Monday during an emergency meeting on the Ukraine-Russia warThe US delegation walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, in protest at comments made by France that compared Washington’s voting on human rights to that of authoritarian states.The diplomatic row was initially sparked last week, when the US joined North Korea and Russia in voting against extending Volker Turk’s term as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. After the vote on Friday, France’s UN mission criticised the US and compared it to…
BBCWhen US President Donald Trump took the stage earlier this month at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, flanked by the CEOs of some of America’s largest defence firms, he had one message in mind: build more weapons, and build them faster.”We have the best quality in the world,” Trump told the armsmakers gathered at the US Army War College, with ‘Secretary of War’ Pete Hegseth at his side. “But we need a little more speed.”The Trump administration framed the summit as part of a two-pronged approach to revitalise American industry and bolster US warfighting capabilities and, in Hegseth’s words,…
Confronting gang members at the heart of Ecuador’s drug battleOrla Guerin speaks to a gang leader about violence, drugs and infiltrating the police.2 hrs agoLatin America
What to expect from Zelensky and Netanyahu’s visit to WashingtonRepublican Senator Lindsay Graham’s funeral is bringing the two world leaders to town, where they’ll separately visit the White House to discuss their region’s wars.6 hrs agoMiddle East
Lee Durant/BBCIn the Ecuadoran city of Durán, riddled with drugs and rival gangs, Police Captain Jean Carlos Bustamante knows exactly what he is up against – not just the criminals who kill and sometimes dismember their rivals, but also the enemy within.”We have many, many bad people inside our unit, inside the state, inside politics,” he says. “We have many, many guys that are corrupt. They are in the pay of the gangs.”The only police officers he can trust, he says, are the ones right beside him – members of his hand-picked team. At 34, Captain Bustamante is the oldest…