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  • My biggest fear? Being alone

    My biggest fear? Being alone

    Mark Savage Music Correspondent Interscope No-one wants to be alone, and no job is more isolating than being a pop star. Just ask Lady Gaga. Her rise to fame in 2009-10 was unlike anything we’d seen before. One of the first pop stars to harness the power of the internet, she seemed to exist in…

  • As US and Canada trade barbs, it’s so far so good for Mexico’s Sheinbaum

    As US and Canada trade barbs, it’s so far so good for Mexico’s Sheinbaum

    Will Grant Mexico Correspondent, BBC News AFP When tariffs were avoided in February, President Sheinbaum agreed to deploy 10,000 troops to the US-Mexico border In announcing the decision to postpone some tariffs on Mexico for another month, US President Donald Trump was at pains to praise his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum. “I did this as…

  • Syrian forces and Assad loyalists in deadly clashes in Latakia

    Syrian forces and Assad loyalists in deadly clashes in Latakia

    Syrian forces loyal to the new government in Damascus have engaged in heavy fighting with remnants of the ousted Assad regime in a coastal area in the country’s north-west. At least 13 soldiers have been killed in the clashes in Latakia province, close to a Russian-controlled airbase, according to state TV. A curfew has been…

  • Pope Francis shares voice message from hospital

    Pope Francis shares voice message from hospital

    Pope Francis has released an audio message thanking people across the world for their support after being admitted to hospital on 14 February. It is the first time the 88-year-old has been heard by the public since entering hospital to be treated for bronchitis, before being diagnosed with pneumonia in both lungs. The short, two-line…

  • Analysing Russian strike on Ukrainian  hotel

    Analysing Russian strike on Ukrainian hotel

    BBC Verify’s Nick Eardley takes a look at verified footage and images from the a Russian missile attack on a Ukrainian hotel. Source link

  • Five jailed over far-right plot to kidnap health minister

    Five jailed over far-right plot to kidnap health minister

    Five members of a German far-right group have been jailed for plotting to overthrow the government and kidnap its health minister. Four of the group were described as “ringleaders” of a “terrorist organisation” which planned to use violence to trigger civil war-like conditions in Germany. The group had planned to kidnap Health Minister Karl Lauterbach…

  • Sudan files case against UAE for ‘complicity in genocide’

    Sudan files case against UAE for ‘complicity in genocide’

    Reuters The RSF has been accused of committing a genocide in Darfur – against the region’s non-Arabic groups Sudan is taking the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of supporting Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the civil war. Khartoum argues the UAE is “complicit in the…

  • Teen armed with gun overpowered by passengers onboard plane

    Teen armed with gun overpowered by passengers onboard plane

    Passengers and crew members had to overpower a 17-year-old who got onto a plane with a shotgun and ammunition in Australia. It happened as the aircraft prepared to take off from Avalon Airport, near Melbourne, ahead of a flight bound for Sydney on Thursday afternoon carrying about 160 people. Police believe the teenager got onto…

  • Trump announces month-long suspension of Mexico tariffs

    Trump announces month-long suspension of Mexico tariffs

    US President Donald Trump has said Mexico will not be required to pay tariffs on goods that come under the trade pact between the two countries and Canada until 2 April. Trump has not confirmed if the suspension also applies to Canada, but its northern neighbour is expecting an exemption of the “same nature”, a…

  • Gabon football coach named by BBC in sexual abuse report banned by Fifa

    Gabon football coach named by BBC in sexual abuse report banned by Fifa

    More must be done to make Gabonese football safer, players’ union Fifpro has said after a former youth coach convicted of sexually abusing players was handed a life ban by world football’s governing body, Fifa. On Tuesday Fifa ruled that Patrick Assoumou Eyi, who was head coach of Gabon’s national youth teams for decades, had…

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