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Getty Images Between July and September, India’s economy slumped to a seven-quarter low of 5.4% Is the world’s fastest-growing big economy losing steam? The latest GDP numbers paint a sobering picture. Between July and September, India’s economy slumped to a seven-quarter low of 5.4%, well below the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) forecast of 7%.…

Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have experienced difficulties accessing them due to a mass global outage. “We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience,” Meta, which owns the apps, said…

Decades of rule by the Assad family came to an end over the weekend following the overthrow of president Bashar al-Assad. But as the BBC’s Jeremy Bowen explains, there are now demands for retribution from Syrians, with some calling for the public execution of those who served the Assads. Source link

Christopher Wray, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), says he will resign from his post before President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month. Mr Wray announced his impending departure at an internal FBI meeting on Wednesday, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News. President-elect Donald Trump has publicly signalled his desire…

An 11-year-old girl has been rescued after clinging to inner tubes for three days in stormy weather in the Mediterranean. Rescuers from non-governmental organisation Compass Collective said they were on their way to another emergency when they heard her calls for help. The unnamed girl, from Sierra Leone, told them she had set off with…

Reuters Israeli troops have taken up positions on Mt Hermon, also known as Jabal al-Sheikh After launching hundreds of air strikes on Syrian military assets and seizing positions including the summit of a mountain with an uninterrupted sightline to the capital Damascus, Israel appears to be taking advantage of what it sees as a unique…

Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bombing inside the interior ministry in Kabul, the movement’s most high profile casualty since it returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Six others died in the blast as Haqqani was leaving his office, interior ministry sources said. Khalil Haqqani was a top member…

Getty Images Tartous naval facility has been a key projection of Russian naval power in the region Russian naval vessels appear to have temporarily left their main port in Syria, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show, amid continuing uncertainty about Moscow’s military future in the country after the fall of its ally, Bashar al-Assad.…

Reuters Adèle Haenel, 35, quit the French film industry last year Adèle Haenel, a French actor who has accused a filmmaker of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, shouted at him to “shut up” before storming out in the middle of his trial. Christophe Ruggia, 59, was speaking in his defence at the…

Syrian rebel fighters have destroyed the tomb of late president Hafez al-Assad, father of ousted president Bashar, in the family’s hometown. Videos verified by the BBC showed armed men chanting as they walked around the burning mausoleum in Qardaha, in the north-west of the coastal Latakia region. The rebels led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir…