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Sean Coughlan Royal correspondent Reuters The King is visiting Canada after President Trump said it should be part of the US “This is a big deal for the King to do this,” says Jeremy Kinsman, former Canadian high commissioner to the UK, as King Charles prepares for a historic visit showing support for Canada, which…

Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, White House Getty Images Trump said the Golden Dome will be completed by the end of his term. Warheads raining down from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. Faster-than-sound cruise missiles striking US infrastructure. Sky-high nuclear blasts. These are just some of the nightmarish scenarios that experts warn could come true if…

Juna Moon and Tessa Wong BBC News Reporting fromSeoul and Singapore BBC Korean Han Tae-soon had spent decades looking for her daughter Kyung-ha The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul. “I was going to the market and asked Kyung-ha, ‘Aren’t you…

Rushdie Abualouf Gaza correspondent Alice Cuddy Reporting from Jerusalem EPA The limited amount of food that trickled into Gaza after an Israeli blockade was partly lifted has sparked chaotic scenes, as hunger continues to spread. Bakeries distributing food were overwhelmed by crowds and forced to close on Thursday, and armed looters attacked an aid convoy…

Eight people have been found guilty after US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in Paris nearly a decade ago. The four who took part in the heist were given prison sentences of up to eight years, but most of these terms were suspended. Two…

Paul Adams BBC diplomatic correspondent Reuters A headline in Israel’s liberal daily Ha’aretz this week put it starkly: “Diplomatic tsunami nears,” it warned, “as Europe begins to act against Israel’s ‘complete madness’ in Gaza.” This week’s diplomatic assault has taken many forms, not all of them foreseen. From concerted international condemnation of Israel’s actions in…

Ian Youngs Culture reporter Getty Images Salgado dedicated himself to photographing nature and indigenous life in his later years Sebastião Salgado, regarded as one of the world’s greatest documentary photographers, has died at the age of 81. The Brazil-born photographer was known for his dramatic and unflinching black-and-white images of hardship, conflict and natural beauty,…

James Waterhouse & Amy Walker In northern Ukraine & London Volodymyr Zelensky/X Some of the released Ukrainians were pictured shortly after they were freed by Russia Russia and Ukraine have each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022. They both returned…

Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News NTB/Jan Langhaugvia via Reuters The huge ship crashed into a local resident’s front garden on Thursday The watch officer of a huge container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident. Investigators said the man,…

Maxar North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the accident a “criminal act” Satellite images have for the first time shown the extent of a shipyard accident in North Korea that damaged a new warship in the presence of the secretive state’s leader, Kim Jong Un. The image shows the warship lying on its…