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A fireball lit up the sky across many parts of southern Japan on Tuesday evening. Live cameras at locations across parts of Kyushu and Shikoku captured the white fireball as it illuminated the sky shortly after 23:00 local time (15:00 BST). The fireball was produced after dust or asteroid fragments burnt up in the atmosphere,…

Mahjooba Nowrouzi BBC Afghan Service, in Kabul BBC BBC visited a mental health centre that is struggling to cope with the number of patients High on a hill in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, behind a steel gate topped with barbed wire, lies a place few locals speak of, and even fewer visit.…

Flash floods in northwest Pakistan have destroyed homes, swept away vehicles and left widespread destruction. At least 314 people have been killed in flooding since Friday, with the majority of fatalities recorded in Pakistan’s Buner district. Officials say Buner was hit by a cloudburst – a rare phenomenon in which more than 100mm (4 inches)…

Vitaly Shevchenko Russia editor, BBC Monitoring Reporting fromat the White House Myroslava Petsa BBC Ukrainian Service Reporting fromat the White House Watch: Key moments from Zelensky, Trump White House talks The optics could not have been more different this time. Unlike the shockingly ill-tempered previous meeting in February, US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President…

Getty Images An investigation has been launched into the death of a French streamer known for extreme challenges. Raphaël Graven, also known as Jeanpormanove, was found dead at a residence in Contes, a village north of Nice, prosecutors said. The 46-year-old had been subject to bouts of violence and sleep deprivation during streams, and died…

Getty Images Last Friday, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska for a summit that was high on pomp and pageantry and low on diplomatic breakthroughs in the push to end the Russia-Ukraine war. On Monday, six European leaders rushed to Washington DC to meet with Trump and assess the consequences of that Putin…

At least 15 people are feared dead in fresh flash floods triggered by intense rain in Pakistan’s north-western region, that’s already reeling from last week’s devastating deluge. An official said a sudden surge in water had submerged several houses and swept away residents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Heavy rains have also interrupted relief work in…

Getty Images Putin received a warm welcome in Alaska on Friday The Kremlin has played down talk of an imminent summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, as Donald Trump renewed his call for the two leaders to meet to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. The push for a bilateral meeting…

Israel’s prime minister accused his Australian counterpart of having “betrayed Israel” and “abandoned” Australia’s Jewish community, after days of increasingly strained relations between the two countries. Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that history would remember Anthony Albanese “for what he is: a weak politician”. It came after Australia barred a far-right member of Netanyahu’s ruling…

Paul Kirby Europe digital editor The Visual Journalism team White House The map in the Oval Office included areas of Ukraine under Russian occupation Russia has occupied a fifth of Ukrainian territory – and a big map showing the area shaded in red was put up in the Oval Office as if to emphasise that…