US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been moved from his Washington DC home to a military base after Iran-linked threats to his life, according to US media reports. CBS, the BBC's US partner, said the relocation came after a photo of Bessent's home was published in the Wall Street Journ...
Two former pupils of a Suffolk primary school have gone full circle by helping children in the same classrooms where they felt inspired to become teachers. Fran Harding, 44, and 23-year-old Ellie McComb both attended Pakefield Primary, near Lowestoft, and went on to study for a teaching de...
A criminal court in Cairo has postponed the retrial of the prominent Egyptian journalist Lina Attalah, whose case has drawn international condemnation. Wednesday's opening hearing was adjourned until 18 November after defence lawyers representing the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada...
Israel's new parliament has been sworn in, as opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot seeks to oust caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The former army chief has been tasked with forming a government after receiving more recommendations from members of the Knesset than Netanyahu, although...
US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has called on Israel to immediately allow all necessary humanitarian supplies into Gaza after rain flooded tens of thousands of tents. The US-backed body, established to oversee the implementation of Trump's Gaza peace plan, acknowledged the steps...
Iran has described French accusations that it was behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers as "baseless and hostile". On Monday, the French authorities blamed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for the string of hacks, which foreign...
Israeli forces have shot dead a 14-year-old Palestinian boy during an operation in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say. Moataz Daghlas was killed on Monday evening in the village of Burqa, north-west of Nablus, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israeli militar...
A senior leader of Colombia's largest criminal gang, the Gulf Clan, is among eight people killed in an air strike carried out by the country's armed forces, according to President Abelardo de la Espriella. De la Espriella said he had personally authorised the bombing targeting the Gulf Cla...
Haiti's Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé has praised "the commitment of the Salvadorean forces in the fight against gangs" after a joint strike on a house allegedly used by the leader of the 400 Mawozo gang. El Salvador's President, Nayib Bukele, had earlier announced that a joint task...
Hundreds of transport workers in Chile have blocked roads and highways across the country in protest over high fuel prices. Drivers of busses and lorries began protesting on Tuesday, gathering in convoys to halt traffic along major routes. They are demanding a relief from surging diesel pr...
A UK court has overturned laws criminalising same-sex intimacy in Trinidad and Tobago. London's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC), the Caribbean island's final court of appeal, ruled the laws were not in keeping with the "fundamental individual right to respect for private and...
Pope Leo XIV celebrated an outdoor Mass in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the second stop on a 12-day tour of Latin America, only three weeks after having had surgery for lung cancer. An estimated 2.5 million people filled the streets to welcome him and attend the historic Mass....