The World Bank Group has announced that over the coming weeks it will be discussing with its Governors and Board of Executive Directors a 15-month crisis response financing package of around $170 billion to help countries address multiple overlapping...
China has reported the deaths of three people from Covid in Shanghai for the first time since the financial hub entered lockdown in late March.
A release from the city health commission said the victims were aged between 89 and...
Dramatic pictures of – and a credible video of – the Russian warship Moskva before it sank last week have appeared online.
The video and images match the shape and design of the missile cruiser.
Russia says a fire onboard caused...
Sixteen people have been injured in a shooting during the morning rush hour at a New York City subway station.
The unidentified attacker detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire at Brooklyn’s 36th Street station at 08:30 local time (12:30...
People in eastern Ukraine know the Russians are about to step up their offensive here. Even the dogs on the streets seem to know, and can be heard barking whenever there’s a heavy thump of artillery in the distance.
Hundreds...
The US and Britain say they are looking into reports that chemical weapons have been used by Russian forces in attacking the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.
Ukraine’s Azov regiment said three soldiers were injured by “a poisonous substance” in an...
The sound of Russian artillery grew louder to a Ukrainian frontline position in Luhansk. The rumble of shelling interspersed with the occasional burst of small arms fire within 500 metres of the Russian positions.
This may be a conflict in...
Clear evidence of Russian troops rounding up Ukrainian civilians and using them as human shields has been found by the BBC.
In multiple interviews in Obukhovychi, villagers say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint and held in a...
Russian forces have killed a village head, her husband and her son, Ukrainian officials say.
This – and the discovery of the bodies of five men dressed in civilian clothes – has added to growing evidence of atrocities on the...
Somalia’s spy agency has warned about an alleged plot by al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabab militants to attack the president and the prime minister.
The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) said in a tweet that it had briefed the nation’s leaders on...