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Former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and alleged drug kingpin Ryan Wedding has been arrested in Mexico and will be extradited to the US after years on the run, FBI Director Kash Patel has said.Wedding, who had been on the FBI's...

Kyiv — On a bitterly cold Wednesday in Kyiv's Heroiv Dnipra neighborhood, Mariana Kiriluk, a foot doctor in her late-thirties, didn't know what to do with her ten-year-old son Zahar. Schools in the Ukrainian capital...

Dernie called on Starmer to "stand up for his own armed forces" and call out the US president.Her comments were put to the prime minister who replied: "I've made my position clear, and what I say to Diane is,...

Spanish prosecutors have dropped an investigation into complaints of sexual abuse against the singer Julio Iglesias.They ruled that Spanish courts had no jurisdiction and were therefore not competent to investigate crimes committed abroad involving complainants who were not Spanish...

A fracture in a straight section of track "occurred prior to the passage" of a high-speed train that derailed, causing last Sunday's rail disaster in which 45 people died, an initial report has found.A train run by private company...

A Canadian backpacker, who was found dead on an Australian beach and surrounded by a pack of dingoes earlier this week, likely died of drowning, an autopsy has found. Piper James, 19, had "physical evidence consistent with drowning" and...

Parnia"Protesters were in small groups gathered in alleyways. Every time that someone tried to gather in the larger street, we could hear live fire sound followed by screams and shouts."Because of the internet blackouts, and protesters avoiding taking their...

Russian, Ukrainian and US negotiators are meeting in Abu Dhabi today for the first trilateral talks since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.But there are hurdles to overcome before any peace deal can be agreed, as the BBC's Joe...

Nawal Al-MaghafiSenior international investigations correspondent, YemenLiam weir / BBCOn 12 January 2026, the president of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, which oversees the government, Rashad al-Alimi, ordered the closure of all "illegal" prisons in southern provinces previously controlled by the...

Sarah RainsfordEurope correspondent , KyivGetty ImagesThere's also the giant new doubt about how good a guarantee from Donald Trump really is: the US president's fixation on "acquiring" Greenland has severely undermined Nato.He's also undermined the very principle of protecting...