By Anne Soy Senior Africa correspondent With the pink paint on its walls fading, the Rouge by Desir hotel is about a 10-minute drive from the centre of Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. The six-storey hotel has 72 rooms with views of the hilly city. It is set in a residential area with a mix of stand-alone […]
At a glance Republic of Ireland reducing public transport fares nationally for the first time since 1947 Fares on a number of services are to fall by 20% for the rest of the year Young adults aged 19-23 years can now receive a 50% reduction in fares on all subsidised public transport Published6 hours ago […]
By Jo Couzens BBC News A British YouTuber was questioned “for a few hours” by police at a Russia-controlled space centre in Kazakhstan on Saturday, he has confirmed. Benjamin Rich said he was fined £60 for not having the required permission to visit the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It comes after the head of the Russian space […]
By Joseph Lee & Andre Rhoden-Paul BBC News Russia-Ukraine war The West was too slow to act over Russian aggression in Ukraine, Boris Johnson has told Ukrainian MPs. Addressing the Ukrainian parliament via video link, he said Ukraine’s allies “cannot make the same mistake” as they did over the 2014 Crimea invasion. He said the […]
By Joseph Lee BBC News Russia-Ukraine war Two British volunteers providing humanitarian assistance in Ukraine have been captured by the Russian military, an aid organisation has said. The non-profit Presidium Network said Paul Urey and Dylan Healy were detained at a checkpoint in southern Ukraine on Monday. The Foreign Office is said to be […]
By Doug Faulkner BBC News Russia-Ukraine war A British national has been killed in Ukraine and a second is missing, the UK Foreign Office has said. Sources in Ukraine told the BBC the dead man is Scott Sibley, who is understood to have been fighting for Ukrainian forces. He is the first British national confirmed […]
Russia-Ukraine war A Ukrainian refugee has begun her “dream job” after arriving in the UK just over a month ago. Valeriia is part of a four-generation family of 10 which moved to a home offered by a businessman in a village near Cambourne, Cambridgeshire. The 37-year-old started working as a nail technician at a beauty […]
By Mark Simpson BBC News NI A Presbyterian minister and a Catholic priest from Belfast have met Pope Francis in Rome. Rev Steve Stockman and Fr Martin Magill were part of a delegation from Belfast which met the Pope at the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. They were invited in their role as organisers of […]
By Jennifer Scott Online political reporter, BBC News Politicians have condemned a suggestion made in a newspaper that Labour’s Angela Rayner tries to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs. The Mail on Sunday claimed some unnamed Conservative MPs said she tried to put the PM “off his stride”. […]
Coronavirus pandemic Removing Boris Johnson from Downing Street would lead to “instability and uncertainty” in the country, according to the Conservative Party’s chairman. The PM has come under increasing pressure from MPs after being fined by the police for attending a party in No 10 during the first lockdown. Some senior Tories have now joined […]
