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Venezuela bans six international airlines as tensions escalate
Venezuela has banned six major international airlines from landing in the country after they failed to meet a 48-hour deadline to resume flights there.The airlines had temporarily suspended their routes into the capital, Caracas, after the US warned of...
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South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa hits back after Donald Trump says US won’t invite it for G20 summit
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as "regrettable" the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa would not be invited to take part in next year's G20 summit in Florida.In a social media post, Trump said...
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BBC on the scene of the Hong Kong apartment block blaze
At least 44 people have been killed in the fire, which took local authorities 18 hours to bring under control.
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US suspends immigration requests for Afghans after National Guard shooting
The US has suspended processing all immigration requests from Afghans, after an Afghan man was identified as the suspect in the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House.The US Citizenship and Immigration Services said the decision...
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‘This is no life’: Security and long-held views shattered in Lebanon amid Israeli strikes
Hugo BachegaMiddle East correspondent , Southern LebanonNeha Sharma/BBCLast Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia...
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Hakainde Hichilema: Stone-hurling anger unnerves Zambia’s ‘fix-it’ president
AFP via Getty ImagesAnd this week he said Zambia's generation capacity had been "decapitated" by a recent drought owing to its reliance on hydroelectricity."This challenge was a wake-up call. Now we have woken up," he added, promising more solar...
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Georgia’s pro-EU protesters defiant year after accession process was halted
Rayhan DemytrieCaucasus correspondentNurPhoto via Getty ImagesThat is not the view of one of Georgia's most respected journalists, Mzia Amaglobeli, imprisoned for two years for slapping a police officer."Russia is conquering us without war. An oligarch is ruling our country,...
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Can Canada wait out the trade war with the US?
Nadine Yousif and Jessica Murphyin TorontoGetty ImagesCanada's Prime Minister Mark Carney appears in no rush to resume trade talks with the US.He dismissed a question over the weekend about when he last spoke to US President Donald Trump, responding:...
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Cosmic butterfly seen in stunning new image captured by telescope in Chile
A telescope in Chile has...