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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...

Archie MitchellandDanielle Kaye,Business reportersGetty ImagesDonald Trump has made clear he covets Greenland.Now he claims to have secured the "framework" of a future deal, to address defence on the island - a deal that he says includes rights to rare...

A 22-year-old Afghan woman who was reportedly running a taekwondo gym for girls has been released after spending 13 days in jail, a spokesman for the Taliban's supreme court confirmed.Khadija Ahmadzada was detained for being in "violation" of rules...

A South African court has dismissed an appeal by the country's heritage body to stop the sale and export of various artefacts connected to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.The 70 personal items include a cell key from Robben Island, where...

More than 160 million Americans are expected to face an unusually brutal winter storm from Friday, with heavy snows and freezing rains forecast.The storm is expected to sweep through much of the United States, leaving "extremely dangerous" conditions in...

TikTok has finalised a deal to allow its American business to continue, by creating a new US entity separate from its global operations. The BBC's Asia Business Correspondent Suranjana Tewari breaks down what this could mean. Source link

Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporterThe newly introduced casting category overlapped with many of the general frontrunners, with nominations for Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Sinners and The Secret Agent. We can't help but feel slightly bemused, however, that one...

ReutersUS President Donald Trump has withdrawn an invite for Canada to join his newly constituted Board of Peace, in the latest spat between the North American neighbours."Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is...

President Trump said Thursday that Canada is no longer invited to join his international Board of Peace, following days of tension between the president and the United States' northern neighbor. The president announced the move in a...