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Christal HayesBBC News, reporting from Utah BBC / Christal Hayes The campus has become a place to both mourn and protest over the days since Kirk’s death Scott Sperry jotted his name down on a sign-up sheet. The 22-year-old student at Utah Valley University had watched Charlie Kirk’s videos for years and credits the conservative…

BBC Verify has been to the house in Washington, Utah which has been linked to Tyler Robinson – the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk. Sitting in the driveway was a grey car, similar to the model detectives said the suspect had driven to Utah Valley University where Kirk was fatally shot. BBC Verify’s…

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed a man near Chicago on Friday after he allegedly drove his car at a group of agents. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said ICE had been trying to arrest the man, but he resisted and drove towards the group. An agent was then…

Reuters Poland’s Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki holds a photo showing the drone damage during a UN Security Council meeting More Nato countries will move their troops and fighter jets eastwards in response to Wednesday’s unprecedented Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace. Denmark, France and Germany have joined a new mission to bolster the military…

Nigerian chef and former Guinness World Record holder, Hilda Baci, has attempted to make the world’s largest pot of jollof rice, a popular West African dish. Thousands of people gathered in Lagos to watch the food influencer’s latest world record bid, after once holding the 2023 title for the longest cooking marathon – an exhausting…

Nardine Saad and Max Matza Watch: Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika makes first public statement since deadly shooting Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, has given a tearful address in which she thanked first responders for trying to save her husband’s life after he was fatally shot on a Utah university campus. In a livestream, standing beside her…

Reuters The former first lady is promising to “modernise” Ivory Coast, should she win the election Former Ivory Coast First Lady Simone Gbagbo has gone from hiding in a bunker in an attempt to avoid arrest to defiantly announcing she will run for president. In an extraordinary comeback, the controversial 76-year-old was this week surprisingly…

Bisma Farooq Bhat and Adil Amin AkhoonBBC News, Srinagar Muneer Speaks/Facebook Muneer Ahmad Dar makes videos on the history and culture of Indian-administered Kashmir On a quiet summer afternoon in 2020, a calendar at a mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir caught Muneer Ahmad Dar’s attention. It featured a poem written in Kashmiri, the language spoken in…

Yolande KnellMiddle East correspondent, Tulkarm BBC Nasser Faratawi’s West Bank property was taken over by the IDF in March Nasser Faratawi holds up a blackened garland of silicone flowers and a singed Ramadan lantern as he picks through the charred ruins of what was his popular party shop in Tulkarm in the north of the…

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, its government has announced. Setting a new record for the 55th year in a row, the number of centenarians in Japan was 99,763 as of September, the health ministry said on Friday. Of that total, women…