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Natalie Sherman Business reporter, in New York Watch: Trump defends firing of Bureau of Labor Statistics head over “wrong” numbers US President Donald Trump said he would fire the head of the agency charged with publishing some of America’s most closely watched economic data, after a weaker-than-expected jobs report stoked further alarm about his tariff…

Number one grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen, has won the inaugural online chess competition at the Esports World Cup. The 34-year-old Norwegian will take home $250,000 (around £188,000). The Esports World Cup (EWC) being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest multi-discipline tournaments in competitive professional gaming. The inclusion of chess in this year’s…

Joel Gunter Reporting from Kyiv BBC Pavlo experienced drone warfare. “You are being hunted,” he said. In a cramped apartment in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Pavlo, a 30-year-old drone operator who had recently returned from the front, unzipped a black case about the size of a pizza box. Inside, there was a four-rotor drone he…

Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and a fraud charge. The 73-year-old is the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted of a crime. He has also been barred from public office and fined $578,000 (£435,000). Uribe, who maintains his innocence,…

Getty Images Donald Trump did not say where the two submarines were being deployed US President Donald Trump says he has ordered two nuclear submarines to “be positioned in the appropriate regions” in response to “highly provocative” comments by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Trump said he acted “just in case these foolish and inflammatory…

This is the moment an injured Ukrainian soldier behind enemy lines made his escape using an e-bike delivered by a drone. Footage released by the Rubizh Brigade, part of the national guard of Ukraine, shows the wounded soldier, known as Tanker, receiving the e-bike by drone, which he says he couldn’t ride at first. Tanker…

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved from a Florida prison to a new minimum-security facility in Texas, authorities have confirmed. The move comes as Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, has pressed the Supreme Court to overturn her conviction while also seeking a pardon…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has voiced hopes for further peace talks with Ukraine – but stressed his troops were “advancing on the entire front line”, despite the threat of tougher US sanctions if a ceasefire was not agreed upon. “All disappointments arise from inflated expectations,” Putin said, in an apparent reference to Trump’s “disappointment” with…

André Rhoden-Paul BBC News Uriel Nuri Uriel Nuri was head of the carnivores team at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo A zoo worker in Jerusalem has died after being attacked by a leopard which had escaped from its enclosure. Uriel Nuri died from injuries he sustained during a “behind-the-scenes tour” for visitors on Friday morning, Jerusalem Biblical…

France has suspended its programme for receiving Palestinians fleeing Gaza. The freeze will be in place while authorities investigate a Palestinian student in France who has been accused of making antisemitic remarks online, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has said. The 25-year-old woman was on a scholarship in northern France’s city of Lille and will…