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Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini has been named the new Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Shia Ismaili Muslims around the world. He will take on the role from his father Prince Karim Aga Khan, who died on Tuesday at the age of 88. The appointment was made after Prince Karim’s will was unsealed, the Aga…

BBC Verify examines international law to understand if the US has the authority to “take over” the Gaza Strip. Source link

Jeremy Bowen International editor Watch: Trump says US could ‘take over’ Gaza and rebuild it The plan, as expressed by Donald Trump, is not going to happen. It requires the co-operation of Arab states that have rejected it. They include Jordan and Egypt – countries that Trump wants to take in Gaza’s Palestinians – and…

More than 100 female prisoners were raped and then burned alive during a jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma, according to the UN. Hundreds of prisoners broke out of Munzenze prison last Monday, after fighters from the M23 rebel group began to take over the city. Between 165 and 167 women were assaulted by…

Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi Reuters Modi and Trump shared warm relations during the US president’s first term Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the US next week and meet President Donald Trump, the White House says. Other reports say Modi will attend a dinner hosted by the US president on the two-day trip.…

Nick Beake Europe Correspondent Reporting fromOrebro, Sweden BBC Ismail Moradi told the BBC he fears there was a racial element to the shooting Ismail Moradi, 16, would normally be carrying his textbooks into school. But on Wednesday he was clutching a bunch of red flowers to lay in tribute to those murdered in Sweden’s worst…

The Palestinian president has said he strongly rejects President Donald Trump’s proposal for the US to take over Gaza and permanently resettle the 2.1 million Palestinians living there. “We will not allow the rights of our people… to be infringed on,” Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that Gaza was “an integral part of the State of…

Phelan Chatterjee BBC News Getty Images The attack happened at a school for adults, on a campus where there are also children’s schools On Tuesday afternoon, the gunman behind Sweden’s worst-ever mass shooting paced up and down through the corridors of Risbergska adult educational centre. His steps could be heard outside the classroom of Hellen…

An unlikely pair of a tiger and a boar were rescued from a well in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. Officials said the boar was being chased by the tiger when they both fell into the water. The animals were safely rescued by forest officials. Video shows the tiger unharmed after…

Thousands of employees at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will be placed on leave from Friday night, the agency has said in a statement on its website. In the announcement, USAID said all “direct-hire personnel” will be placed on leave at the end of this week except those on “mission-critical functions, core…