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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will attend a military parade in Beijing next week alongside Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China has said, in what will be a landmark visit. This is Kim’s first multilateral international meeting, making the event a diplomatic win for China’s Xi Jinping who has been pushing for a new Beijing-led world…

Chris Graham & Ottilie Mitchell BBC News Reuters Military officials have advised people to stay in shelters during the attacks Kyiv has come under heavy Russian bombardment overnight, with two children among the four people killed, Ukrainian officials said early on Thursday. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital was…

Matt Dempsey Artwork: the dinosaur had long spikes sticking out from the side of its head Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur which had metre-long spikes sticking out from its neck. The species, called Spicomellus afer, lived 165 million years ago, and is the oldest example of a group of armoured dinosaurs called ankylosaurs.…

A South African influencer linked to a controversial job scheme in Russia has apologised for her role in promoting it in a country where many young people are desperate to find jobs. Cyan Boujee, whose real name is Honour Zuma, came under scrutiny after one of the videos she posted online advertising jobs for women…

European banks have seen widespread unauthorised direct debits from PayPal accounts, the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) says. The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) says payments worth in the region of 10 billion euros (£8.6bn) have had to be blocked, after PayPal’s fraud-checking system failed. It said payments were paused on Monday when lenders reported…

Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Watch: “Please give me an invite” – Young Americans react to Taylor Swift’s engagement Taylor Swift has announced her engagement to her partner Travis Kelce, sharing a series of pictures, including one of the ring, on Instagram. The post was accompanied by the caption: “Your English teacher and your gym…

Azadeh Moshiri Pakistan correspondent, in Narowal Ian Aikman BBC News, in London Watch: Rescuers are rushing to evacuate residents from submerged areas in Punjab Some 200,000 people have been evacuated as floods devastate parts of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Rescuers carried residents to safety in boats after disaster authorities warned of “exceptionally high” floods along the…

Two children, aged eight and 10, have been killed and 17 other people injured following a school shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The attack happened during morning Mass at Annunciation Catholic School. The gunman was armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol and shot through the church windows, police say, adding that he then turned a…

Adrienne Murray BBC News in Copenhagen Reuters Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the government could not change what had happened but could take responsbility Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has issued a long-awaited apology to the Greenlandic women and their families affected by what she called “systematic discrimination” during a contraceptive campaign. During the 1960s…

Amira Mhadhbi BBC News Arabic BBC Journalists in Gaza work and sleep in tents near various hospitals “I never imagined that one day I would be living and working in a tent, deprived of the most basic human necessities – even water and a bathroom. “It’s more like a greenhouse in the summer and a…