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Israel's PM has accused the leaders of the UK, France and Canada of being on the wrong side of history

Netanyahu launches blistering attack on Starmer, Macron and Carney

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Canada — saying that they had "effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power".He also accused Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney of siding with "mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers".Netanyahu was speaking after Thursday's attack on Israeli embassy staff in Washington. Days earlier, the UK, France and Canada had condemned Israel's expanded offensive in Gaza as "disproportionate" and described the humanitarian situation as "intolerable".Downing Street has pointed to Sir Keir's earlier condemnation of the Washington attack.In that post, Sir Keir called...

May 23, 2025

Netanyahu launches blistering attack on Starmer, Macron and Carney

Harvard is the ultimate school that anybody in India wants to get into, says Shreya Mishra Reddy

Harvard's foreign students are stuck and scared

SINGAPORE — When Shreya Mishra Reddy was admitted to Harvard University in 2023, her parents were "ecstatic".It is "the ultimate school that anybody in India wants to get into," she tells the BBC.Now, with graduation around the corner, she has had to break the bad news to her family: she may not graduate in July from the executive leadership program after the Trump administration moved to stop Harvard from enrolling international students "as a result of their failure to adhere to the law"."It has been very difficult for my family to hear. They're still trying to process it," she told the BBC.Ms Reddy is one of around 6,800 international students at Harvard, who make up more than 27% of its enrolments this year. They are a crucial source of...

May 23, 2025

Harvard's foreign students are stuck and scared

Students in China's Shandong province participate in a graduation ceremony earlier this month. The vast majority of Chinese students who attend university continue their studies in China

China says Trump's Harvard ban will ‘tarnish’ US image

HONG KONG — The Trump administration’s move to bar Harvard University from enrolling international students has ricocheted across China, with officials and commentators seeing it through one lens: the growing rivalry between Washington and Beijing.“China has consistently opposed the politicization of educational collaboration,” a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said Friday, adding that the US move “will only tarnish its own image and reputation in the world.”Some commentators across Chinese social media platforms took a similar tack: “It’s fun to watch them destroy their own strength,” read one comment on the X-like platform Weibo that garnered hundreds of likes.“Trump comes to the rescue again,” wrote another, commenting on a hashtag about the news, which...

May 23, 2025

China says Trump's Harvard ban will ‘tarnish’ US image

Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan was suspended from the Senate after making sexual harassment allegations

Nigerian government sues senator over assassination claims

LAGOS — The Nigerian government has pressed charges against a senator who accused one of the country's top politicians of plotting to kill her.In April, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan alleged that Godswill Akpabio, the Senate president, and Yahaya Bello, a former state governor, wanted to "eliminate" her. Both have denied the accusation.Weeks before, Akpoti-Uduaghan had accused the Senate president of sexually harassing her - an allegation he has also denied.The government has now filed charges with the High Court, saying Akpoti-Uduaghan's assassination allegation defamed Akpabio and Bello.In the charge sheet, seen by the BBC, Nigeria's attorney general referenced a live interview broadcast by Nigeria's Channels TV last month.In the interview, Akpoti-Uduaghan spoke of...

May 23, 2025

Nigerian government sues senator over assassination claims

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called the accident a 'criminal act'

New satellite photos show damaged North Korean warship

SEOUL — Satellite images have for the first time shown the extent of a shipyard accident in North Korea that damaged a new warship in the presence of the secretive state's leader, Kim Jong Un.The image shows the warship lying on its side, covered by large blue tarpaulins. A portion of the vessel appears to be on land.An official investigation into the accident - which Kim described as a "criminal act" - has begun, state media reported on Friday.None of the reports mentioned any casualties or injuries as a result of Thursday's incident in the eastern port city of Chongjin.KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, downplayed the damage in a report on Friday, saying it was "not serious" and that, contrary to initial reports, there were no holes on the...

May 23, 2025

New satellite photos show damaged North Korean warship

This aerial view shows the 443-foot NCL Salten grounded in the Trondheim Fjord, Norway on Thursday, May 22

Man sleeps through massive container ship running aground on his front lawn

OSLO — A Norwegian man managed to sleep through an enormous container ship running aground on his front lawn.Johan Helberg, who lives in Byneset, on the Trondheim Fjord, was woken by his neighbor on Thursday morning asking if he had noticed a boat outside, TV2 Norway reported.When he looked out his door, he saw a 135-meter-long (443-foot) container ship parked up in his front yard.“If the ship had hit the rocky outcrop right next to it, it would have lifted up and hit the house hard. It only missed by a few meters,” Helberg told TV2.His neighbor, Jostein Jørgensen, who lives about 40 meters (131 feet) from the beach, told TV2 he was woken around 5 a.m. by the sound of a boat approaching.“When I looked out the window, I saw a boat speeding toward the shore,” he told the local TV...

May 23, 2025

Man sleeps through massive container ship running aground on his front lawn

Daily Telegraph paper on a stand

Daily Telegraph to be sold to US firm RedBird Capital

LONDON — American buyout firm RedBird has agreed a deal to take control of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph after a two-year ownership vacuum.RedBird Capital will buy the stake owned by UAE's Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Sultan al-Nahyan who had bankrolled an earlier bid.That bid was rejected by the previous government, which passed a law preventing foreign governments owning British newspapers or news magazines.The current proposed deal will need regulatory approval.Both Telegraph titles and the Spectator magazine were put up for auction by Lloyds Bank, who seized them from the Barclay family for non-payment of outstanding debts.In a bold but ultimately unsuccessful move, a consortium of RedBird and Sheikh Mansour's IMI paid off the Barclay brothers' debts in full hoping to...

May 23, 2025

Daily Telegraph to be sold to US firm RedBird Capital

Protesters bearing placards outside the event

Protestors accuse Trump of corruption as he hosts crypto gala dinner

SAN FRANCISCO — US President Donald Trump has hosted top purchasers of the cryptocurrency that bears his name at a gala dinner, an event that protesters and his Democrat opponents branded as "corrupt".$TRUMP was launched shortly before his inauguration in January, initially rocketing in value before falling sharply afterward."It's fundamentally corrupt - a way to buy access to the President," Democrat senator Chris Murphy wrote on X.Protesters gathered outside the event on Thursday night, which was held at a golf course near Washington DC, some carrying signs reading "stop crypto corruption" and "no kings."The White House has rejected the accusations, and in a video of the dinner posted on social media, Trump is seen saying "I always put...

May 23, 2025

Protestors accuse Trump of corruption as he hosts crypto gala dinner

Smoke billows after drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted Port Sudan, Sudan, on 6 May, 2025

US to impose sanctions on Sudan after alleged use of chemical weapons

WASHINGTON — The US has announced new sanctions on Sudan after accusing the military-run government of using chemical weapons last year against its opponents in the ongoing civil war.In a statement released on Thursday, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the Sudanese junta had violated the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)."The United States calls on the government of Sudan to cease all chemical weapons use and uphold its obligations under the CWC," she said in a statement.Under the terms of the CWC, signatories must destroy their stockpiles of chemical weapons.Bruce did not give details about where and when the banned weapons are alleged to have been used.However, the New York Times reported earlier this year, citing senior US officials, that Sudanese government...

May 23, 2025

US to impose sanctions on Sudan after alleged use of chemical weapons

More aid lorries entered Gaza through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing on Thursday

UN says 90 truckloads of aid now in Gaza after three-day delay at crossing

GAZA — More than 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid have been collected by UN teams inside the Gaza Strip, three days after Israel eased an 11-week-long blockade.The aid, which included flour, baby food and medical equipment, was picked up from the Kerem Shalom crossing on Wednesday night and taken to warehouses for distribution. Pictures showed a bakery producing bread with some of the flour.The UN said the delays were due to insecurity along the single access route which the Israeli military had approved.Israeli authorities said they allowed an additional 100 lorry loads through Kerem Shalom on Wednesday. However, the UN said it was "nowhere near enough to meet the vast needs in Gaza".Humanitarian organizations have warned of acute levels of hunger among the 2.1 million...

May 22, 2025

UN says 90 truckloads of aid now in Gaza after three-day delay at crossing

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