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Madina MaishanuBBC Africa, Kurmin WaliBBCForty-eight hours of confusion followed the attack as officials initially denied anything had happened, despite eyewitness reports, only to finally confirm events on Tuesday evening."They told us not to give out any information, they want...

WarchildYou won't get to hear that song until Help 2 is released on 6 March. Thanks to record labels and pressing plants donating their services free of charge, it will be cheaper than standard albums - with a double...

The U.S. has finalized its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, one year after President Trump announced — on the first day of his second term — that America was ending its 78-year-old commitment, federal...

The United Nations (UN) says it will take over management of a camp in north-eastern Syria holding holding thousands of people with alleged links to the jihadist group Islamic State (IS).It comes after Kurdish-led forces that had been running...

Getty ImagesHamas put out a statement on Thursday saying that it remained committed to the October agreement and accusing Israel of seeking to "undermine international efforts aimed at consolidating the ceasefire".Speaking at Davos, Israeli President Isaac Herzog praised the...

Mexican authorities said Thursday that they arrested an alleged organized crime figure in the western state of Michoacan in connection with last October's killing of an outspoken leader of the state's lime growers.Security Secretary Omar...

Emmanuel Macron/XFollowing Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many Western countries imposed sanctions on Russian energy. Moscow has been accused of dodging sanctions by shipping oil on aged tankers with obscure ownership or insurance.Earlier in January, British armed...

An ex-nurse convicted of murdering 10 patients in western Germany may be linked to more than 100 additional deaths, an official has said.The chief public prosecutor in Aachen, Katja Schlenkermann-Pitts, told the BBC that there was "a correspondingly...

Elon Musk, a long-time critic of the World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos, Switzerland, appeared at the gathering for the first time on Thursday, where he predicted that robots will eventually outnumber humans. Musk has...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detained a 5-year-old boy on Tuesday during an enforcement operation, Minnesota school officials have said, as part of an immigration crackdown in the state.Pre-schooler Liam Ramos was with his father - named...