By Vikas Pandey BBC News, Delhi India has been forced to try to placate its partners in the Islamic world after growing anger over controversial comments made by two senior officials of the country’s ruling party about the Prophet Muhammad. Nupur Sharma, who was a spokesperson of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), made […]
Bangladeshi officials have accused the operator of a container depot of exacerbating a deadly blaze by not storing chemicals safely. Nine firefighters were among more than 40 people killed after fire broke out near the port city of Chittagong. Officials said containers of hydrogen peroxide were labelled incorrectly – and firefighters doused flames with water […]
South Africans have condemned Irish airline Ryanair for making them take a test in the Afrikaans language on UK flights, calling it discriminatory. The country has 11 official languages, and many say they cannot understand Afrikaans – a language which was imposed during white-minority rule. The quiz contains questions on South African general knowledge. Ryanair […]
Elon Musk has threatened to walk away from his $44bn takeover of Twitter, accusing the social media company of “thwarting” his requests to learn more about its user base. In a letter filed with regulators, Mr Musk said he was entitled to do his own measurement of spam accounts. The letter formalises a dispute […]
By Leo Sands BBC News Russia-Ukraine war Ukrainian forces still holding out in the eastern city of Severodonetsk are outnumbered by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Both sides fought for the city in street-by-street battles on Monday as artillery shells rained from above. The intensity of fighting there and in nearby Lysychansk […]
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says “there is no basis for the claims of criminal conduct” relating to an alleged cover-up of a burglary at one of his properties in 2020. The country’s former spy chief, Arthur Fraser, has accused the president of kidnapping and bribery in a case he has registered with the police. […]
By Geeta Pandey BBC News, Delhi On Thursday, as the Indian government meets representatives of restaurants to sort out the contentious issue of the service charge that customers have to pay most times when they eat out, the BBC explains the unsavoury tussle over tips. A couple of months back, Nicole Ruth Ellis visited a […]
BBC World Service Mark Pivac, Newsroom Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked 57 judges, accusing them of corruption and protecting terrorists. In a television address, he said he had given the judiciary multiple opportunities and warnings to “purify” itself. Among the sackings announced in the government’s official gazette was Youssef Bouzaker, the former head of […]
By Leo Sands & Robert Greenall BBC News Russia-Ukraine war Russia has accused the US of seeking to prolong the war in Ukraine after President Biden said he would supply Kyiv with new long-range missiles. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the US was “intentionally adding fuel to the fire” with the deliveries. “Such supplies […]
At a glance More than 50 incubators partly funded by Jersey Overseas Aid are going to hospitals across Ukraine The lightweight machines are about the fifth of the weight of traditional incubators and can use multiple power sources They are being sent out after reports that the stress of the war was causing “a […]
