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A US court has ordered that Prince Harry’s immigration files must be made public by Tuesday. District Judge Carl Nichols ordered the release of the documents based on a freedom of information (FOI) request by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think tank in Washington DC. The foundation alleges that the prince concealed his past…

At least 40 people have died from tornadoes through the US Midwest and South. Residents in Bakersfield, Missouri are coping with the destruction that killed 12 people in their state. Fatalities were also recorded in Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi. The severe weather came further east as parts of western Pennsylvania were hit with strong storms.…

Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist NASA Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been on the ISS since June 2024 After an epic nine months in space, Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are finally getting ready to head home. Their stay on the International Space Station (ISS) was only supposed to last eight days,…

James FitzGerald and Ana Faguy BBC News, London and Washington DC Video shows alleged gang members deported by US in El Salvador mega-jail The White House has denied an accusation from rights groups that it flouted due process by defying a judge’s order while carrying out deportations at the weekend. A group of 238 alleged…

Faarea Masud Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images US President Donald Trump’s escalating trade tariffs will hit world growth and raise inflation, the OECD has predicted in its latest forecast. Canada and Mexico are forecast to see the biggest impact as they have had the harshest tariffs imposed on them, but US growth is also…

The Czech Republic is pushing for EU support to keep Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) running after the Trump administration cut funding for the global broadcaster. Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said RFE/RL, based in Prague, “is one of the few credible sources in dictatorships like Iran, Belarus, and Afghanistan”. In Eastern Europe, the US government-funded…

Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via Reuters More than 200 Venezuelans alleged by the White House to be gang members have been deported from the US to a notorious mega-jail in El Salvador. Out of the 261 people deported, 137 were removed under the Alien Enemies Act, a senior…

Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying it has been “consistently undermined” by the European nation during the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Brussels has been leading calls for European nations to sanction Rwanda over its support for the M23, a rebel group at the centre of DR Congo’s crisis. The…

A court in Georgia has handed a further prison sentence to the jailed former president, Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half years behind bars for illegally crossing the border when returning to the country from exile in 2021, his lawyer said. He is already serving concurrent terms for embezzlement and abuse of…

Lucy Manning Special Correspondent PA Media Sharone Lifschitz with her father Oded Lifsthiz who died while in captivity in Gaza A British-Israeli woman whose father died in captivity after being taken hostage by Palestinian gunmen on 7 October has said the return of his body last month has been “incredibly meaningful”. “Bringing back my dad…