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Jiyar Gol BBC world affairs correspondent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps special forces (file photo) US and Israeli intelligence have accused Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards of planning attacks abroad There has been a sharp rise in plots by the Iranian regime to kidnap or assassinate dissidents, journalists and political foes living abroad, according to reports by…

A court in Thailand has issued 17 arrest warrants for people connected to the building of a skyscraper that collapsed during an earthquake in March. The 30-storey tower, being built to house the State Audit Office, was felled when Bangkok felt tremors of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck neighbouring Myanmar. Authorities said they had…

Reuters Top US diplomat Marco Rubio says he does not have high expectations for peace talks due to be held between Ukraine and Russia in Turkey and asserted that Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin needed to meet. “It’s my assessment that I don’t think we’re going to have a breakthrough here until President…

Bernd Debusmann Jr and Kayla Epstein BBC News Getty Images US President Donald Trump took his bid to end birthright citizenship to the US Supreme Court on Thursday, in a case that could help further his agenda on immigration and other issues. The case asks whether lower court judges should be able to block presidential…

The body which runs Nigeria’s university-entrance exams has admitted to a “technical glitch” which compromised some results of this year’s tests, after nearly 80% of students got low grades. Students have complained about not being able to log in to the computers, questions not showing up and power cuts making it impossible to take the…

The BBC asked President Trump whether he was disappointed by the level of the delegation that Russia sent to Turkey. “Look, nothing’s going to happen until Putin and I get together. Okay?” Trump said. “And obviously he wasn’t going to go. He was going to go, but he thought I was going to go”, the…

Rushdi Abu Alouf Gaza correspondent Reuters Air strikes reportedly hit homes and tents sheltering displaced families At least 114 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since dawn, health officials and rescuers say. Fifty-six people, including women and children, were killed when homes and tents sheltering displaced families were bombed…

Police in Mexico have arrested a retired judge accused of tampering with evidence related to the disappearance of 43 students from Iguala more than a decade ago. Lambertina Galeana Marín was the president of the Superior Tribunal of Justice in the state of Guerrero when the trainee teachers went missing in 2014. The 79-year-old is…

Tottenham captain Son Heung-min has filed a criminal complaint with the South Korean police for being the victim of an alleged blackmail plot after it was reported that a woman threatened him with a false pregnancy claim. Gangnam Police Station in southern Seoul said it had detained a woman in her 20s and a man…

Joe Inwood BBC World correspondent EPA The Bayesian, pictured sailing near Palermo, in a photo released by manufactures Perini Navi The owner and crew of a luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily, killing tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others, were unaware wind speeds of over 73mph could tip it over, according…