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Reuters By Matt Murphy & Christy Cooney BBC News China has carried out a second day of naval drills around Taiwan, as tensions continue to mount after President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit to the US last week. The drills – which Beijing has called a “stern warning” to Taipei – have used naval and air forces

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Christy Cooney BBC News The last surviving prosecutor from the post-World War Two Nuremberg trials has died aged 103. Ben Ferencz was just 27 when he secured the convictions of Nazi officers for war crimes and

Vitaly Votanovsky By Will Vernon BBC News, Moscow A Russian activist who revealed details of the burials of Wagner mercenaries killed in Ukraine has left Russia. Vitaly Votanovsky, who began documenting the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine by monitoring graveyards in his home region, fled the country on 4 April after receiving numerous death

Twitter By Ben Morris & Lucy Williamson BBC News Two British-Israeli sisters killed in a shooting in the occupied West Bank have been named as Maia and Rina Dee. The sisters were killed on Friday afternoon near the Hamra Junction in the north of the Jordan Valley, as they drove to Tiberias. They were the

Gallo Images By Kathryn Armstrong BBC News A rapist and murderer who escaped a South African prison by faking his own death has been arrested in Tanzania. Thabo Bester was at large for a year after it was thought he died by setting himself on fire in his prison cell. A manhunt was launched last

Reuters By Marita Moloney BBC News Ukraine is able to export electricity for the first time in six months as its energy infrastructure recovers from months of repeated Russian attacks. Russia began its lengthy and deliberate assault on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure last October. It led to power cuts and scheduled blackouts, leaving towns and cities

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. China’s military has begun rehearsing the encirclement of Taiwan during three days of military drills. Beijing – which views Taiwan as a breakaway province of China – called the operation a “stern warning” to the island’s government.

Getty Images A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas has ordered a hold on longstanding approval of a widely used abortion drug, mifepristone. The pill has been allowed for over 20 years, and is used in most abortions. But just an hour later, an Obama-picked judge in Washington state issued a competing injunction, ordering no change

Reuters By Yolande Knell & Christy Cooney BBC News, in Jerusalem and London An Italian tourist has been killed and seven other people wounded in a suspected car ramming attack near a beach in Tel Aviv, Israeli medics say. Italy’s foreign minister said Israel had identified the man killed as Italian citizen Alessandro Parini. Footage

AFP By Robert Greenall BBC News US journalist Evan Gershkovich has been formally charged with spying in Russia, according to local media. Mr Gershkovich, an experienced Russia reporter, was arrested last week in the city of Yekaterinburg while working for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The media reports said he categorically rejected the accusations against

Getty Images By Bernd Debusmann Jr BBC News, Washington US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has said he believed luxury trips taken with a billionaire Republican donor followed guidelines. A ProPublica report earlier this week said Mr Thomas had accepted vacations from real estate mogul Harlan Crow nearly every year for two decades. Supreme Court

Reuters By David Gritten BBC News Two Israeli women have been killed and another seriously injured in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military and medics say. The women were in a car that crashed after being shot at near the settlement of Hamra, in the Jordan Valley. The Magen David

P Witte By George Wright BBC News People were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs in Spain around 3,000 years ago, according to new research. Scientists say that hair from a burial site in Menorca shows that ancient human civilisations used drugs derived from plants and bushes. It is believed to be Europe’s oldest direct evidence

AFP via Getty Images Israel’s military says it has struck targets linked to Palestinian militant group Hamas inside Lebanon and across the Gaza Strip. The attacks come after a major rocket barrage on Israel from Lebanon, which the Israelis blamed on Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Hamas’ “terrorist” infrastructure was hit in southern

Getty Images By Sam Cabral BBC News, Washington US President Joe Biden’s administration has blamed its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan on his predecessor, Donald Trump, in a new report A 12-page summary of the report says Mr Biden was “severely constrained” by Mr Trump’s decisions, including a 2020 deal with the Taliban to end the

Reuters By Lucy Williamson & David Gritten BBC News, in Jerusalem and London The Israeli military has accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas of firing dozens of rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. It said most of the 34 rockets were intercepted but that six hit Israeli territory, causing damage to buildings. One man