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Israel has carried out a large wave of air strikes in southern Lebanon, saying it was targeting positions of the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah. The attacks came after evacuation warnings were issued for several locations. There has been no immediate report of casualties. Israel has carried out air strikes on people and places it says…

At least ten people have died and 25 others injured after a fire broke out in a high-rise building in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. Videos on social media on Tuesday showed occupants of the seven-storey Afriland Towers jumping out of the third and fourth floors when the fire started. The victims were commercial workers who…

Joshua NevettPolitical reporter EPA Donald Trump suggested Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer could use the military to stop illegal migration at a news conference marking the end of the US president’s second state visit to the UK. Trump said he discussed migration issues with Sir Keir during a meeting at his country residence Chequers. The…

TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been pulled off air indefinitely after comments he made about the shooting of Charlie Kirk, ABC has said. The decision came hours after Brendan Carr, chair of broadcast regulator, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said Jimmy Kimmel was “appearing to directly mislead the American public”. Leading Democrats call Kimmel’s suspension…

Watch: Trump suggests FCC should revoke licenses from networks covering him negatively US President Donald Trump has suggested some TV networks should have their licences “taken away”, as he backed America’s broadcast regulator in a row over the suspension of ABC host Jimmy Kimmel. The Disney-owned network announced on Wednesday evening it was pulling the…

Sarah SmithNorth America editor “Was it worth it?” – BBC correspondents assess Trump’s state visit There is little doubt that Donald Trump was more enthused about the day he spent at Windsor Castle than his talks with Sir Keir Starmer at Chequers. And that is no slight on the UK prime minister’s hospitality during this…

Eleven people detained in Ghana after being deported from the US have sued the West African nation’s government, their lawyer has told the BBC. Oliver-Barker Vormawor said the deportees had not violated any Ghanaian law, and their detention in a military camp was therefore illegal. He wanted the government to produce the group in court,…

A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet that disappeared from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was stolen and melted down, Egypt’s interior ministry says. A restoration specialist took the artefact – which dates back to the reign of King Amenemope, a pharaoh who ruled Egypt around 1,000BC – from a safe at the museum nine days ago, according…

The head of Malawi’s electoral commission has warned political parties not to prematurely declare electoral victory, saying they should wait for the official results. Annabel Mtalimanja’s warning came after the parties of the two main presidential candidates, the incumbent Lazarus Chakwera and his predecessor Peter Mutharika, claimed they had won Tuesday’s poll. Speaking at a…

Mallory Moench, Visual Journalism team, Simon Jackbusiness editor and Sean Coughlanroyal correspondent PA Beneath gilded portraits and suits of armour in Windsor Castle, 160 guests wined and dined at a lavish banquet to fete US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented second state visit to the UK on Wednesday evening. Along with the impeccable table settings, three-course…