At least 64 killed in Rio's largest police raid on gangs
Fierce clashes erupted in the Brazilian city, with the Red Command gang dropping bombs with drones....
Fierce clashes erupted in the Brazilian city, with the Red Command gang dropping bombs with drones....
The journalist has been in Vietnam for several months while authorities have withheld their renewed passport....
Hamas denies it was behind an attack on Israeli forces inside an area of Gaza under their control and condemns the strikes....
Donald Trump’s presidential approval rating has fallen in recent days, tying the lowest level of his term, as more Americans frowned on his handling of the cost of living, according to a new Reuters/I...
The Miami-based hurricane center warned that "total structural failure" was likely in Melissa's path...
"This is yet another blatant violation of the ceasefire," the official said....
Rising floodwater and extreme winds hit Jamaica on Tuesday as the Caribbean island braced for the imminent landfall of Hurricane Melissa, and officials pleaded with residents to take shelter....
Ukraine's president confirms Russian soldiers have taken up position inside the town of Pokrovsk....
Tiphaine Auzière was testifying in the trial of ten people accused of cyber-bullying her mother, the French first lady....
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Hamas of violating a US-brokered ceasefire, orders the military to carry out ‘powerful strikes in the Gaza strip amid hostages exchange row....
President Donald Trump is conducting a counter-drug campaign in the Caribbean....
Prime Minister Andrew Holness ordered mandatory evacuations for parts of southern Jamaica...
He accuses them of hiding alleged dangers from the drug, following the Trump administration's unproven claim it is linked to autism....
General Albert Pike's statue, toppled during George Floyd protests in 2020, is restored under orders from President Donald Trump....
Parties approved to participate in Myanmar elections started campaigning on Tuesday, two months ahead of a poll being shunned at home and abroad as a ploy to legitimise military rule....
It is the latest in a series of attacks on boats the US says have been carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean....
Israel is a model for Taiwan to learn from in strengthening its defences, President Lai Ching-te said in remarks, citing the Biblical story of David versus Goliath on the need to stand up to authorita...
The pregnant 19-year-old will stay in detention in Georgia on drugs charges until her next hearing....
The UN's review of national climate plans shows the world is well off track to limit warming...
The company says the opportunities provided by AI means it needs to be "organised more leanly."...
The gunman accused of killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe pleaded guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world....
A Utah judge ruled that the 22-year-old alleged killer of US conservative activist Charlie Kirk may wear street clothes during his trial, instead of prison attire, over concerns of biasing the jury....
Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, shot Abe multiple times as he appeared at a political event in 2022....
The visit to Switzerland follows official state visits to Vietnam and Indonesia....
The UN forecast the first decline in greenhouse gases ever, but the world remains well off course in keeping global warming below the 1.5 °C leaders committed to when they signed the Paris Agreement a...
Japan’s new premier Sanae Takaichi lavished US leader Donald Trump with praise and vows of a “golden age” of ties on his visit to Tokyo, before signing a deal with Washington aimed at securing critica...
Melissa could be the worst hurricane Jamaica has experienced since recordkeeping began - but some residents on the Caribbean island say they will believe it when they see it....
Steven van de Velde was convicted in 2016 of raping a 12-year-old British girl...
Another woman was being treated in hospital for hearing damage and shock...
Footage taken by a US Air Force Reserve crew known as the "Hurricane Hunters" shows the category five storm intensifying in the Caribbean....
Los Angeles played host to a spectacle of style and storytelling over the weekend....
Venezuela blasted the arrival in nearby Trinidad and Tobago of a US warship as a dangerous “provocation”, amid mounting fears of potential attacks against the Venezuelan mainland....
Alassane Ouattara's win is unsurprising as his biggest rivals were barred from the election....
Ten people went on trial in Paris on Monday charged with sexist online harassment of Brigitte Macron, in the latest case linked to unsubstantiated gender claims thrown at the French first lady in Fran...
Evyatar David's health is "improving every day", his father says as his son and two other hostages freed by Hamas are discharged from hospital....
The government says "a Hamas person" was helping Red Cross and Egyptian personnel trying to find hostage bodies....
Hurricane Melissa was located about 530 kilometers (330 miles) southwest of Guantanamo, Cuba....
US President Donald Trump said Monday he had received an MRI scan during a recent hospital visit, providing an explanation for the first time for why he underwent a second medical exam in a year....
But he rules out running for vice-president, an idea floated by supporters to circumvent the constitution that bars him from running again....
US President Donald Trump ruled out running for the vice presidency in the 2028 US election, an approach some of his supporters have floated to allow the Republican president to serve an additional te...
Inga Ruginiene says she is taking the "strictest measures" over the balloons, used to transport cigarettes from Belarus....
The defendants are accused of spreading unsubstantiated claims over Mrs Macron's gender and sexuality....
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 92, has been re-elected for an eighth term with 53.7% of the vote, according to official results announced by the Constitutional Council....
Unfil says the drone flew over a patrol in an "aggressive manner", but the Israeli military says it was gathering intelligence and posed no threat....
More than 8 000 flights were delayed across the US as air traffic controller absences continued to disrupt travel and a federal government shutdown reached its 26th day....
Melissa has been upgraded to a category five storm and could become Jamaica's strongest on record....
A large gulf remains between the US and European view of how to end the Ukraine war....
New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani was boosted by prominent US leftists at a get-out-the-vote rally, as the Democratic socialist and Donald Trump foe closed in on the city’s top job....
King Abdullah tells the BBC there would need to be peace in Gaza before any international forces were deployed....
Milei's radical spending cuts have won favour with Donald Trump, but also attracted widespread criticism....
Argentina’s budget-slashing leader Javier Milei pulled off a stunning win in midterm elections, boosting the flagging reform agenda of the US-backed right-winger....
Russian authorities say the attack forced a temporary closure of two of the city's four airports....
Kurdish counter-terrorism officials tell the BBC so-called Islamic State cells in Syria are regrouping and increasing attacks....
The US intends to turn Venezuela into a "colony", Venezuela's attorney general says....
The flight landed in Guangzhou on Monday morning, a milestone in the thawing of bilateral ties....