KCNA North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been pictured inspecting new suicide drones, which state media say have been equipped with artificial intelligence (AI). The undated images released by the secretive state’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) show Kim flanked by officials on a runway inspecting a drone. Kim agreed to a plan…
Reuters Three weeks ago, Palestinian film-maker Hamdan Ballal stood in front of the world’s cameras in Hollywood, picking up an Oscar for best documentary film. The cameras were watching him again on Tuesday, a hand to his bruised face, as he walked awkwardly away in bloodstained clothes after almost 24 hours in Israeli detention. The…
Nomsa Maseko & Natasha Booty BBC News, in Bujumbura and London BBC President Évariste Ndayishimiye made the comments in an exclusive interview with the BBC Burundi’s President Évariste Ndayishimiye has told the BBC he has seen “credible intelligence” that Rwanda plans to attack his country, and said that Rwanda had tried to launch a coup…
Sebastian Usher Middle East correspondent Thomas Mackintosh BBC News Getty Images Hamdan Ballal poses with Rachel Szor after they won Best Documentary Feature Film for No Other Land at the Oscars A Palestinian Oscar winner has been detained in the occupied West Bank following an outbreak of violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians, activists say….
Getty Images File image shows Pakistani policeman on a train in Quetta Armed militants in Pakistan’s Balochistan region have attacked a train carrying hundreds of passengers and taken a number of hostages, military sources have told the BBC. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) fired at the Jaffar Express Train as it travelled from Quetta to…
President Trump announced the capture of a top leader of the Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan who helped plan the 2021 attack on the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and dozens of other people. “We have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity, and he is right now on…
An elderly man has been killed and four other people have been wounded in what police say was a terrorist stabbing attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. It happened at the HaMifratz Central train and bus station, and the attacker was shot dead at the scene by security guards, police said. The victim…
A Spanish city has honoured two Senegalese migrants for their heroism in trying to save a gay man beaten to death by a homophobic mob. Ibrahima Diack and Magatte N’Diaye were given “adopted sons of the city” status in A Coruña on Monday in a formal ceremony recognising their actions. The men were the only…
Russia launched a large-scale drone attack on Saturday night, causing civilian casualties across Ukraine, official have said. Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for Ukraine’s Air Force Command, said a “record” 267 Russian drones were launched in a single, coordinated attack. Among them, 138 were intercepted by air defence while 119 disappeared from radars after being jammed and…
A stabbing in Austria that killed a 14-year-old boy and wounded five others was an Islamist attack, the country’s interior minister has said. The attack took place on Saturday at Villach, a town near the border with Italy and Slovenia. A 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was detained at the scene. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said…
