Row over language turns violent in India’s richest state
Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai EPA/Shutterstock Police in Mumbai detain a woman who was participating in a protest this week against alleged injustice to Marathi speakers For weeks, a battle…
war crimes are being committed, says ICC
Tabby Wilson BBC News Digital – World Reuters 12 million people have been displaced by the conflict in western Sudan There are “reasonable grounds” to believe war crimes and crimes…
Yemen Houthis sink second Red Sea cargo ship in a week
Watch: Houthi footage shows militants blowing up the Magic Seas ship earlier this week Ten crew members have been rescued and at least three others killed after a cargo ship…
South Africans fear spike in HIV infections as US aid cuts bite
Mayeni Jones BBC News, Johannesburg Reuters Gugu used to collect her antiretrovirals from a USAID-funded clinic in central Johannesburg. But when President Trump’s cuts to aid funding were announced earlier…
Caster Semenya: South African double Olympic champion wins partial victory at European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics’ sex eligibility rules.
Caster Semenya’s right to a fair hearing was violated by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court when she lost a 2020 appeal against World Athletics regulations that effectively barred her from…
Brazil vows to match US tariffs after Trump threatens 50% levy
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said he is ready to match any tariffs imposed on Brazil by the United States. Lula was responding to Wednesday’s threat by…
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen survives rare confidence vote
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has survived a confidence vote tabled by a far-right faction in the European Parliament. Although the outcome was not a surprise, the fact…
Srebrenica massacre’s tensions still felt 30 years on
Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent BBC More than 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica in July 1995. Today remembrance is fraught The silence is…
Asia is reeling but is anyone winning?
Osmond Chia Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images President Trump has extended the deadline for tariff negotiations – again “Deeply regrettable” is how Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has described…
Trump threatens 35% tariffs on Canadian goods
US President Donald Trump has said he will slap a 35% tariff on Canadian goods starting 1 August, even as the two countries are days away from a self-imposed deadline…