Year: 2025

Fifty children escape after mass school abduction in Nigeria

Fifty of the 315 children kidnapped by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria’s Niger State on Friday have escaped.…

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Hunting down those who kill for human body parts

Tyson ContehBBC Africa Eye, Sierra Leone BBC Papayo’s mother Sally Kalokoh has not come to terms with her son’s death…

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Rubio hails ‘tremendous progress’ at Ukraine peace talks

A “tremendous amount of progress” has been achieved in talks to finalise a US-proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine…

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Israel targets key Hezbollah official in first attack on Beirut in months

Israel has carried out an air strike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time…

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Nigeria sees one of worst mass abductions as 315 taken from school

Alex Smith, Chris Ewokor,BBC Africa, in Abuja, and Elettra Neysmith BBC St Mary’s School, in Niger state, was attacked in…

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US insists it authored peace plan

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has insisted that a proposed plan to end the Ukraine war, which has been widely…

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UN climate talks fail to secure new fossil fuel promises

Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent, Belém, Brazil EPA Following bitter rows, the UN climate summit COP30 in Belém, Brazil has…

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Three arrested in India after police crack $800,000 bank heist

Three people have been arrested in India after a daring 70m rupees ($800,000; £600,000) heist in which armed men posing…

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Seven bodyguards arrested over mayor’s murder

Seven bodyguards have been arrested over their alleged involvement in the murder of a popular Mexican mayor, authorities have said.…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene to quit Congress after Trump feud

Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu,Washington and Anthony Zurcher,North America correspondent, Washington Key moments from Trump and Greene’s public fallout Georgia congresswoman Marjorie…

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