Olga Podolskaya By Antoinette Radford BBC News A man sentenced to jail in Russia after his daughter drew an “anti-war” picture has been caught in Belarus, after seemingly fleeing the country. Alexei Moskalev was given a two-year jail sentence in absentia on Tuesday for discrediting the army. He came to the attention of authorities last
Month: March 2023
Getty Images By Nadine Yousif BBC News, Toronto An inquiry into the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history has criticised police for failing to act quickly to prevent casualties. Twenty-two people were killed in the province of Nova Scotia in April 2020 after a gunman posing as a police officer went on an overnight rampage.
Getty Images By Esme Stallard Climate and Science Reporter, BBC News The government has unveiled a new net zero plan which has been met with intense criticism from experts and environmental groups. The document was drawn up after the High Court ruled the government’s existing plans were not sufficient to meet its climate targets. A
Getty Images By Michael Race Business reporter, BBC News The UK’s car sector could disappear unless the government follows the US and EU in helping with the switch to electric, an industry veteran warned. It was “probable” car firms would leave the UK without a huge subsidy package similar to the billions of support the
Reuters By Paul Kirby BBC News A US journalist working for the Wall Street Journal has been formally arrested in Russia and accused of spying. Evan Gershkovich, an experienced Russia reporter, was working in Yekaterinburg at the time of his detention. The Wall Street Journal said it was “deeply concerned” for his safety and vehemently
Getty Images Notorious prisoner Charles Bronson has lost his latest bid to be freed from jail, the Parole Board has said. The panel said he had a “history of persistent rule-breaking”, “lives his life rigidly by his own rules” and was not suitable for release. Bronson, 70, from Luton, was jailed aged 22 for armed
Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images By Imogen Foulkes in Geneva & Robert Plummer in London BBC News Four bankers who allowed a friend of Vladimir Putin to deposit huge sums in Swiss banks have been found guilty of lacking due diligence. The former executives at the Zurich branch of Russia’s Gazprombank were given seven-month suspended sentences for
Getty Images A number of people are expected to have been killed after a US Army helicopter crash in Trigg County, Kentucky. The state’s Governor Andy Beshear said it was “tough news” with “early reports of a helicopter crash and fatalities are expected”. Local news reports say the incident happened at about 21:35 local time
Getty Images By Sam Cabral BBC News, in Park City Many celebrities descend on Park City once a year for the Sundance Film Festival – but the past week in the city has been about one star and one courtroom drama in particular. Gwyneth Paltrow’s legal team has now rested in a civil trial over
By Steve Rosenberg Russia editor, Moscow The Russian authorities may have shut down his newspaper, but journalist Dmitry Muratov refuses to be silenced. When we meet in Moscow, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and Russia’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate is worried how far the Kremlin will go in its confrontation with the West. “Two generations
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By James Gregory in London & Sean Coughlan in Berlin BBC News King Charles III has paid tribute to Germany’s “extraordinary hospitality” towards Ukrainian refugees during his first state visit as monarch. The King said both the
Getty Images By Davide Ghiglione & Alys Davies in Rome and London Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will need to spend a few days in hospital in Rome, the Vatican says. The 86-year-old had breathing difficulties in recent days but does not have Covid, a statement said. It said he would need “a
It’s so easy to put the Dallas Mavericks’ struggles on Kyrie Irving. Irresistible, even. The Mavericks have gone from a teetering fourth in the West all the way to 11th — a Demon Drop out of the play-in picture since acquiring Irving from Brooklyn and pairing him with Luka Dončić. But the Mavericks’ slide goes
GENYA SAVILOV By Hugo Bachega BBC News, Kyiv Orthodox Christian clerics say they will stay at a historic monastery in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, despite a planned government-ordered eviction of hundreds of priests, monks and students. The Pechersk Lavra is a seat of Ukraine’s Orthodox Church (UOC), which split from the Moscow patriarchate after Russia’s
Getty Images By Nadine Yousif BBC News A drug that reverses opioid overdoses can now be purchased without a prescription in the US, officials said. Approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) means naloxone can be sold as a single-dose nasal spray in convenience and grocery stores. Until now, Narcon – the nasal spray
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Sean Seddon & James Gregory BBC News Three sites including two ex-military bases will be used as migrant housing in a bid to cut down on hotel use. Sites in Lincolnshire and Essex, plus another in
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