French elections 2022 French voters are preparing to cast their ballot in the first round of the presidential elections on Sunday. Recent polls have shown a marked fall in President Emmanuel Macron’s lead over his main challenger, far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Campaigning has now ended, and voter turnout is expected to be lower […]
A Kinder chocolate factory in Belgium has been ordered to close after it was linked to dozens of salmonella cases. Belgium’s food safety authority has also ordered the recall of all Kinder products made at the factory in Arlon, which is owned by Ferrero. Suspected salmonella cases linked to Kinder chocolate have been reported in […]
Russia-Ukraine war Accounts of atrocities committed by Russian troops against Ukrainian civilians are emerging daily. There are calls for President Putin and others to be prosecuted for war crimes – but how likely is that to happen? Given its past record, and failure to stop this war which has seen more than 11 million […]
By Yogita Limaye BBC News, Chernobyl, Ukraine Russia-Ukraine war The former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine was taken over by Russian forces on the first day of the invasion. It’s now back under Ukraine’s control. The BBC’s Yogita Limaye is among the first journalists to look inside it since the Russians left. […]
Russia-Ukraine war Russian troops were heard discussing killing civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, in messages intercepted by German intelligence, German media say. Der Spiegel magazine says some of the radio traffic tracked by the BND intelligence agency appears to match locations of bodies just outside Kyiv. The BND has so far made no […]
Russia-Ukraine war Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described to the United Nations how Ukrainian civilians were allegedly killed by invading Russian forces. He said people died in their homes and on the streets and were crushed by tanks in their cars “for pleasure”. Russia should be held accountable for what had happened, he added, and […]
By Reality Check and BBC Monitoring BBC News Russia-Ukraine war A satellite image of Bucha in Ukraine appears to show bodies lying in the street nearly two weeks before the Russians left the town. The image from 19 March, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the BBC, directly contradicts Russian Foreign […]
Russia-Ukraine war Many of the Russian troops occupying the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl have left, Ukraine’s state nuclear company says. Energoatom said two columns of Russian forces had set off towards the Belarusian border, leaving just a few at the site. The announcement appears to confirm reports by senior US defence officials […]
The head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is losing his job after failing to predict Russia’s war in Ukraine, reports say. Seven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for “inadequate briefings” and a “lack of mastery of subjects”. The US correctly assessed that Russia was planning […]
Killing of Jamal Khashoggi A Turkish prosecutor has asked a court in Istanbul to halt the trial in absentia of 26 Saudi nationals over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The prosecutor said the case should be transferred to Saudi Arabia, which has refused to extradite the defendants. Khashoggi, a US-based Saudi journalist […]
