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Sometimes it’s not what’s said that makes the biggest impression. It’s the reaction. In the Russian Far East, Vladimir Putin delivered a warning to the West: don’t even think about sending soldiers – and that includes peacekeepers – to Ukraine. “If some troops appear there,” the Russian president said, “especially now while the fighting’s going…

A man has died on a Sydney beach after being bitten by a suspected “large shark”, Australia’s New South Wales police have said. In a statement, the police said emergency services pulled the man out of the morning surf onto the shore at Long Reef Beach – but he “died at the scene”. “Two sections…

Watch: ICE was ‘just doing its job’ with Hyundai arrests, Trump says Many of the car workers arrested in a huge US workplace immigration raid had violated their visitor visas, officials say. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 475 people, mostly South Korean citizens – were found to be illegally working at a Hyundai battery…

Nikita YadavBBC News, Delhi AFP via Getty Images Delhi is estimated to have around one million stray dogs Days after an order by India’s top court brought the issue of stray dogs in Delhi into the spotlight, tensions have risen in the city. Animal lovers say they face hostility and sometimes even violence for taking…

Alfred LasteckBBC News in Mbeya BBC Warning: This article contains details that some readers may find distressing. In the wake of his abduction on a highway in Tanzania’s main city Dar es Salaam, social media activist Edgar Mwakabela, better known as Sativa, says he came close to death. He describes in an interview with the…

President Donald Trump will attend the US Open men’s singles final on Sunday in what will be his first visit to the Grand Slam tennis event since 2015. Trump, who was re-elected in 2024 for a second term in office, has not been to the New York City tournament since he first came to power…

Former Vice-President Mike Pence says he has “great concerns” over Donald Trump’s unilateral tariffs. In an interview with BBC Newsnight discussing a range of topics, Pence said he would “like to see negotiations” around lowering the levies. Pence served as VP during Trump’s first term in office. Source link

Sebastian Vandermeersch & Matt MurphyBBC Verify BBC Israeli strikes and demolitions have destroyed dozens of buildings in areas of Gaza City, satellite images show, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its offensive has established control over 40% of the city. The new images reviewed by BBC Verify show that intensive bombardments and controlled explosions…

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have allegedly committed numerous crimes against humanity during their siege of the city of el-Fasher in Darfur, UN investigators say. The report by the UN Fact-Finding Mission accuses the group of “murder, torture, enslavement, rape, sexual slavery, sexual violence, forced displacement and persecution on ethnic, gender and political grounds”.…

Google has been fined €2.95bn (£2.5bn) by the EU for allegedly abusing its power in the ad tech sector – the technology which determines which adverts should be placed online and where. The European Commission said on Friday the tech giant had breached competition laws by favouring its own products for displaying online ads, to…