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ReutersBerlin Mayor Kai Wegner said the German capital would not cave to the ransom demandBerlin is being blackmailed by hackers who were able to compromise city systems and steal data earlier this month, its mayor has said.Kai Wegner said officials would not cave in to the ransom demand, which came on Thursday evening. He did not say how much was being sought, though Der Spiegel reports the hackers are demanding 30 bitcoin, worth around €2m (£1.7m).Some of the German capital’s online systems were forced to close down as a result of the attack, while investigators were working to understand what…
Video shows scale of flash flood hitting Nepal-Tibet borderThe dramatic footage was almost impossible to miss. A torrent of water tearing through Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away all in its path as hundreds of people fled for their lives.The scenes, captured by CCTV cameras, quickly spread on social media and onto screens around the world.Except here, in China.Only a single still-frame shot has been broadcast so far by the country’s state-run flagship news bulletin.Beijing has launched a massive rescue operation involving hundreds of emergency workers, which is continuing, and President Xi…
Tracing the deadly path of the Nepal-Tibet flash floodNew satellite imagery has revealed the scale of the devastation along Nepal’s Trishuli River caused by Wednesday’s deadly flash flood, triggered by a glacier collapse.Before-and-after images show how sections of the valley, where a torrent of floodwater and debris surged through, destroyed villages, bridges and hydroelectric power stations.More than 550 people have been killed, Nepalese officials say, with hundreds more missing.Among the worst-hit locations reviewed by BBC Verify was a key Nepal-Tibet border crossing, which was engulfed by a rush of floodwater and captured on camera.Damage and mud can be seen more…
ReutersYiannopoulos seen holding a news conference in 2017British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is awaiting deportation.Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and onetime employee of rapper Kanye West, appears to be held in Louisiana, according to ICE’s inmate registry. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said he “was issued a final order of removal by an Immigration Judge on July 22, after failing to show up for his immigration hearing”, and will remain in custody pending deportation.The self-styled provocateur has called himself the “most fabulous supervillain on the…
Norway’s ‘grandfather’: Late King Harald remembered as son Haakon takes the throneNorwegians paid their respects to the late King Harld after his death on Friday morning. 1 hr agoEurope
LPD WienVienna police released CCTV images of the suspectsAn international manhunt is under way for two men who stole a necklace decorated with more than 600 diamonds from a museum in Vienna after buying a ticket for the exhibition in which it was being displayed.Police said the two suspects smashed a glass display case at the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on Thursday afternoon and grabbed the platinum and diamond necklace, which is believed to be worth more than $4m (£3m; €3.5m).The necklace, which was designed for the former Egyptian royal family, was part of an exhibition on the…
Getty ImagesClashes have broken out in Ceuta, with protesters setting fire to migrant belongings on the beachA month after tens of thousands of migrants entered the city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa, there have been outbreaks of violence as tensions mount between locals and foreign arrivals.The Spanish government has been accused by opposition parties of struggling to manage the crisis effectively.Ceuta’s residents have complained of feeling unsafe on the streets, as well as expressing concerns about the burden being placed on public services.At least 72,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta on 30 and 31 July. Most…
BBC tracks one week of Israeli settler violence in occupied West BankThe BBC’s Lucy Williamson reports on settler attacks on Palestinians, which have been observed over the last week alone.2 hrs agoMiddle East
EPALast Monday night, drug gangs turned Salvatore’s pizzeria in Brussels into a crime scene.”We dropped to the floor. I had clients eating on the terrace with children. Look, we can see the bullet impacts everywhere.”His restaurant sits on a pretty little square in St Gilles. It’s a central area of the city, close to the international Midi train station, where passengers arrive on trains from London and Paris.Shootings related to drug trafficking have become routine in the Belgian capital over the past couple of years. There were over 100 in 2025 alone, and more than 65 shootings so far this…
Getty ImagesThe Mayor of Oslo, Anne Lindboe, has been engaged for five yearsOslo’s Mayor Anne Lindboe has called off her wedding ceremony because of the death of King Harald V of Norway.The wedding with her fiancé Pål Sandvid was planned to take place on Friday but was postponed after the king died earlier the same day, her political adviser confirmed to the BBC.”It’s hard to imagine an Oslo and a Norway without you. You didn’t need a crowd to be king,” Lindboe wrote in a tribute to the late monarch on Instagram.Harald reigned for 35 years and died at the…