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One of the co-owners of the Swiss bar where 40 people died in a fire on New Year's Eve has been detained.Sources told Swiss media that Jacques Moretti, a French national, was a potential flight risk. The blaze at...

Getty ImagesAs Ugandans go to the polls next week they are faced with a choice of propelling a leader into his fifth decade in power or backing a candidate seeking to capitalise on the desire for change from some...

A fifth oil tanker linked to Venezuela was interdicted by U.S. forces in the Caribbean, U.S. Southern Command confirmed...

One of the largest and oldest icebergs ever tracked by scientists has turned blue and is "on the verge of complete disintegration," NASA said on Thursday.A23a, a massive wall of ice that was once twice...

Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a...

Allan LittleSenior correspondentBBCFor 80 years, what bound the United States to Europe was a shared commitment to defence and a common set of values: a commitment to defend democracy, human rights and the rule of law.That era was inaugurated...

An endangered mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, whose remarkable biodiversity has long been threatened by the region's litany of conflicts.Fewer than one percent...

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Thousands of Iranians flooded the streets of Tehran and other cities Thursday night, heeding a call by the country's exiled crown prince to make their voices heard in the most serious challenge to the Islamic...

Elon Musk's platform X has limited image editing with its AI tool Grok to paying users, after it came under fire for allowing people to make sexualised deepfakes.There has been a significant backlash after the chatbot honoured requests from...