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A man has died after being run over by a bulldozer he was operating while fighting wildfires in Portugal, bringing the death toll in the country to three, officials said. The 65-year-old worked for a firm hired to fight fires northern municipality of Mirandela and was reportedly run over after falling from his vehicle while…

M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last month in one of the worst atrocities by the armed group since its resurgence in late 2021, Human Rights Watch has said in a report. This is despite a peace process, brokered by the US and Qatar, to end the conflict…

A traffic accident in western Afghanistan has killed 79 people, including 17 children, most of whom were on a bus carrying Afghan migrants deported from Iran, a Taliban interior ministry spokesperson confirmed to the BBC. The bus, en route to Kabul, caught fire on Tuesday night after colliding with a truck and motorcycle in Herat…

NZ Police Police believe this CCTV footage captured Tom Phillips with one of his children attempting to break into a store in Piopio, in the Waitomo region The family of a father who vanished with his three children into New Zealand’s wilderness almost four years ago have pleaded for him to come home. A national…

Nikita Yadav BBC News, Delhi Hindustan Times via Getty Images Parts of the city are under knee-deep water Heavy rainfall in India’s financial capital Mumbai has disrupted the lives of millions of people, submerging roads and leading to flight and train cancellations. Many parts of the city remain inundated in waist-deep water, with videos showing…

Walmart has recalled some of its shrimp products in the US after radioactive material was detected in a shipment of seafood. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned the public not to eat frozen shrimp sold under Walmart’s Great Value label could have been exposed to a dangerous isotope in shipping containers. One sample…

A fireball lit up the sky across many parts of southern Japan on Tuesday evening. Live cameras at locations across parts of Kyushu and Shikoku captured the white fireball as it illuminated the sky shortly after 23:00 local time (15:00 BST). The fireball was produced after dust or asteroid fragments burnt up in the atmosphere,…

Mahjooba Nowrouzi BBC Afghan Service, in Kabul BBC BBC visited a mental health centre that is struggling to cope with the number of patients High on a hill in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, behind a steel gate topped with barbed wire, lies a place few locals speak of, and even fewer visit.…

Flash floods in northwest Pakistan have destroyed homes, swept away vehicles and left widespread destruction. At least 314 people have been killed in flooding since Friday, with the majority of fatalities recorded in Pakistan’s Buner district. Officials say Buner was hit by a cloudburst – a rare phenomenon in which more than 100mm (4 inches)…

Vitaly Shevchenko Russia editor, BBC Monitoring Reporting fromat the White House Myroslava Petsa BBC Ukrainian Service Reporting fromat the White House Watch: Key moments from Zelensky, Trump White House talks The optics could not have been more different this time. Unlike the shockingly ill-tempered previous meeting in February, US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President…