Month: December 2025

Why is US President Trump threatening Venezuela’s President Maduro?

Vanessa BuschschlüterLatin America editor, BBC News Online Reuters US President Donald Trump has been ramping up pressure on Venezuela’s leader,…

Read More »

South African radio presenter among five charged over Russia recruitment plot

A radio presenter with South Africa’s public broadcaster has appeared in court on a charge related to the alleged recruitment…

Read More »

Putin and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff set for key Ukraine talks in Moscow

James Chaterand Laura Gozzi EPA Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Tuesday,…

Read More »

Trump releases fraudster executive days into prison sentence

US President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former investment manager David Gentile, who was just days into a…

Read More »

Cameroon opposition firebrand dies in detention aged 74

Paul NjieBBC Africa, Yaoundé AFP via Getty Images Anicet Ekane’s family was given little explanation – “his wife was just…

Read More »

Tulip Siddiq MP given jail sentence in Bangladesh after trial in her absence

Labour MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh after being put…

Read More »

Japanese singer Maki Otsuki stopped mid-show after China row

The abrupt cancellations of several Japanese music events in Shanghai – one of them midway through a song – have…

Read More »

Ukraine talks ‘productive’ but more work needed, Rubio says

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says talks with Ukraine over a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war were productive,…

Read More »