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European leaders have voiced concerns over a US plan to end the Ukraine war and say draft proposals are "a basis which will require additional work".In a joint statement issued at the G20 summit in South Africa, they said...

World leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing economies broke with tradition and adopted a declaration at the start of their summit in South Africa on Saturday despite opposition from the United States, which is boycotting...

Brazil's federal police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro preemptively on Saturday, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, officials said.A close aide said the embattled former...

Alex Smith, Chris Ewokor,BBC Africa, Abuja and Elettra NeysmithBBCMore than 300 children and staff are now thought to have been kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, making it one of the worst mass abductions the...

Seven bodyguards have been arrested over their alleged involvement in the murder of a popular Mexican mayor, authorities have said.Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan and an outspoken critic of cartel violence, was shot dead on 1 November at...

Ukraine's allies will seek to "strengthen" a US plan to end the war with Russia when they meet at the G20 summit in South Africa, UK PM Sir Keir Starmer has said.The summit begins a day after President Volodymyr...

Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will resign from office in January, an unexpected turn for the high-profile Republican days after a public feud with President Donald Trump.Greene, who became one of Trump's Maga superstars in US...

Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondent, JohannesburgGallo Images via Getty ImagesSo will South Africa manage to reach its aims without the presence of the world's wealthiest nation? Professor Richard Calland, from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, thinks it can."I think that...

Ione WellsSouth America correspondent, in ColombiaBBCMost in this region do not believe that this is just about targeting small, alleged drug-trafficking boats, but instead about the US also wanting to put military pressure on Venezuela's president Nicolás Maduro to...