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US President Donald Trump has nominated State Department spokeswoman and former Fox News host Tammy Bruce to be the US deputy representative to the United Nations. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Bruce, who has been working at the US State Department since he took office in January, has done a “fantastic…

A 17-year-old suspect has been arrested after three people were shot in New York City’s Times Square in the early hours of Saturday. Gunfire rang out about 01:20 EDT (05:20 GMT) at West 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, below the towering billboards in one of the world’s busiest tourist hotspots. The teenager has not been…

Israel has approved a plan to take control of Gaza City, which it says is part of its strategy to end the war. BBC Verify has been looking at what this could mean for Palestinians still living in the city, many already displaced by the fighting. Reha Kansara has more. Verification by Paul Brown, Joshua…

NASA Who will be the next human to leave their footprint on the surface of the Moon? They were the pioneers of space exploration – the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the stricken…

In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. BBC climate and science reporter Esme Stallard explains why 80 years on, the radiation from the explosions is undetectable. World War Two in Europe ended in May 1945 but the Allies, including the UK, US and USSR, were…

Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Getty Images Elon Musk’s AI video generator has been accused of making “a deliberate choice” to create sexually explicit clips of Taylor Swift without prompting, says an expert in online abuse. “This is not misogyny by accident, it is by design,” said Clare McGlynn, a law professor who has helped draft…

Emir Nader BBC News in Jerusalem Cachella Smith BBC News in London EPA Gazans carry aid packages from a food distribution point in Zikim in the northern Gaza Strip A further 11 deaths resulting from malnutrition have been reported in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. That brings the total number of malnutrition-related deaths…

AFP via Getty Images South Korea’s military says North Korea has begun removing some of the loudspeakers used to broadcast propaganda across the border between the two countries. North Korea’s move appears to be a positive reaction to the overtures from newly elected South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who had campaigned on improving inter-Korean…

Mexico has said US military would not be entering its territory following reports that President Donald Trump had directed the Pentagon to target Latin American drug cartels. “The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military,” President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday. “We co-operate, we collaborate, but there is not going…

A police officer has died from injuries sustained while responding to a shooting outside the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is near Emory University. The Atlanta police department said the incident, which took place on Friday, involved a “single shooter” who is now dead. Police identified the officer…