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Joel Gunter & Paul Kirby In Orebro and London Reuters Candles and flowers have been left outside the school in memory of the victims of Tuesday’s attack Syria’s embassy to Stockholm says Syrians were among the 10 victims of a gunman who carried out the worst shooting in Swedish history, at a school in Orebro…

Getty Images Investigators had earlier last week said they had found evidence of a bird strike on the Boeing 737-800 plane All South Korean airports will need to install bird detection cameras and thermal imaging radars, after an air crash in December last year killed 179 people. The rollout is set to happen in 2026.…

Protesters in Bangladesh have vandalised and set fire to the former family home of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, as well as those of other members of her party. The unrest was sparked by news that Hasina would address the country via social media from India, where she has been in exile since student-led protests…

After US President Donald Trump threatened Canada with steep tariffs, Monika Morelli from Montreal cancelled her subscriptions to Netflix and Amazon, two giant American companies. She also called off a trip that she had planned for later in the year to New Orleans. “There is something that has been irrevocably broken now, after centuries of…

Holly Honderich, Kayla Epstein and Lily Jamali in Washington, DC, New York City and San Francisco EPA After days of speculation over the precise role the world’s richest man would play in Donald Trump’s White House – how much power he would hold, whether he is a government employee at all – he took to…

Google has become the latest big US firm to scrap its goals to recruit more workers from underrepresented groups, BBC News understands. The decision to abandon the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) recruitment targets comes after the company carried out an annual review of its corporate policies. The technology giant is also reviewing some of…

A strong earthquake has been recorded between the Greek islands of Amorgos and Santorini, after days of consecutive tremors in the area. More than 11,000 people have already left Santorini with around 7,000 departing by ferry and 4,000 people leaving by air. The quake followed two smaller tremors minutes earlier, and was recorded at 21:09…

UNIAN Dmytro Sherembey credits USAID with saving his life “I’m alive thanks to USAID,” says Dmytro Sherembey. He’s been living with HIV for 24 years in Ukraine, and says the agency, which distributes billions of dollars of aid around the world, has helped prevent the virus from spreading there. “Every second HIV-positive person in Ukraine…