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EPA Flight disruption across Europe is set to continue, with Brussels airport in Belgium asking airlines to cancel nearly half of their flights on Monday. Several of Europe’s busiest airports have spent the past few days trying to restore normal operations, after a cyber-attack on Friday disrupted their automatic check-in and boarding software. Disruption had…

Australian officials have promised telecommunications giant Optus will face “significant consequences” over a systems outage linked to multiple deaths. The incident last week left hundreds of people across more than half of the country unable to call emergency services for 13 hours. Optus – one of the country’s two major providers – says at least…

Thousands have been evacuated in the Philippines as the nation braces for a super typhoon that has been described by regional authorities as potentially “catastrophic”. Super typhoon Ragasa, packing 230km/h (143mph) wind gusts, is forecast to make landfall over sparsely populated northern islands on Monday, before barrelling west towards southern China. Ragasa brings a “high…

Padraig BeltonBusiness reporter Alina Kalcheva Natalia Grishko’s balcony, top right, was badly damaged by the blast from a Russian missile With conflict continuing in Ukraine and the Middle East, a little-explored global industry has never been more in demand – the war risk insurance market. When a Russian missile damaged Natalia Grishko’s apartment in a…

Robin Levinson-King and Sarah SmithNorth America editor in Arizona Watch: Key moments from Charlie Kirk’s memorial service US President Donald Trump hailed the conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a “great American hero” and “martyr” during a speech to tens of thousands of mourners at a memorial service in Arizona. Trump was the headline speaker at…

Tens of thousands of Americans gathered at State Farm Stadium in Arizona to attend the memorial service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The event was expected to draw over 100,000 attendees and was held under heightened security measures comparable to those used during the annual Super Bowl game. The BBC spoke to attendees about the…

Jean MackenzieSeoul correspondent Watch: South Korean president tells BBC he would accept a Trump-Kim deal to freeze NK’s nuclear programme South Korea’s president has said he would agree to a deal between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in which North Korea agreed to freeze production of its nuclear weapons, rather than get rid of…

Yogita LimayeSouth Asia and Afghanistan correspondent Aakriti Thapar/BBC Gusts of wind blew dust up off the ground as Ghulam Mohiddin and his wife Nazo walked towards the graveyard where all their children are buried. They showed us the graves of the three boys they lost in the past two years – one-year-old Rahmat, seven-month-old Koatan…

EPA India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, whose office warned the change would disrupt families The Indian government has said a new $100,000 (£74,000) fee for applicants seeking US skilled worker visas will have “humanitarian consequences”. President Donald Trump on Friday ordered the new fee for H-1B visa applications, which is more than 60…

Getty Images Trump called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute his political foes on Saturday President Donald Trump has called on the country’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Pam Bondi, to more aggressively investigate his political adversaries. In a social media post addressed directly to Bondi, he said: “We can’t delay any longer,…