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Three people have been killed and 103 others injured due to a train derailing while en route to the Egyptian capital Cairo, the country’s health ministry has said. The train had been travelling from the northern coastal city of Marsa Matruh when seven of its carriages came off the tracks on Saturday, with two carriages…

Laura BickerChina correspondent Getty Images North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attending a military parade in the centre of Beijing, alongside Russian president Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi Jinping, is quite the photo-op. It’s also a key diplomatic win for Xi. The Chinese leader has been trying hard to project Beijing’s power on the…

Yemen’s Houthi rebel movement has confirmed that its self-proclaimed Prime Minister Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi was killed in Israeli air strikes earlier this week. The Iran-backed group said several other senior officials were killed when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Thursday. The IDF said at the time that it attacked…

Getty Images A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are an overreach of his use of emergency powers as president. The so-called reciprocal tariffs – imposed on nearly every country the US trades with – are being illegally imposed, the US Court of Appeals said on Friday. The decision upholds…

Steven McKenzieBBC Scotland News Watch: Moment brothers complete record-breaking 9,000 mile row Three brothers from Edinburgh have claimed a new record for rowing non-stop and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean after almost 140 days at sea. Jamie, Ewan and Lachlan Maclean endured violent tropical storms, which forced them into making lengthy detours on their 9,000-mile…

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine’s southern and central regions, authorities have said, as Kyiv struck Russian oil refineries. One woman was killed in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and 30 people were injured – including three children – according to local officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched over 500 drones…

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, has met the families of soldiers killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine and expressed his “deep condolences”, state media says. In a special ceremony held on Friday Kim was seen comforting bereaved families and presenting them portraits of their dead loved ones wrapped in the North Korean flag. South…

Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in Lviv, Ukrainian authorities have said. Police received reports of the shooting in the Frankivsk district of Lviv, western Ukraine, at around midday local time on Saturday. Unconfirmed reports suggest Parubiy was shot multiple times by a gunman on an e-bike dressed as a courier.…

Mayeni JonesBBC News in Johannesburg Kyla Herrmannsen / BBC Vusi Tshabalala narrowly escaped injury from the fire after fleeing the blaze covered by a blanket soaked in water Blackened by soot, the gutted and derelict remains of South Africa’s infamous Usindiso building in central Johannesburg are an unintentional memorial to the 76 people who died…

Taco Bell is rethinking its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to power drive-through restaurants in the US after comical videos of the tech making mistakes were viewed millions of times. In one clip, a customer seemingly crashed the system by ordering 18,000 water cups, while in another a person got increasingly angry as the AI…