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BBC For years, Western critics have dismissed Brics as a relatively inconsequential entity.But this past week, at its annual summit in Russia, the group triumphantly showcased just how far it has come.Top leaders from 36 countries, as well as the UN Secretary General, attended the three-day event, a...
Sports,Football
Barcelona's league fixture against Atletico Madrid in December could be staged in Miami - with La Liga officials hopeful that Fifa will approve the plan.It would be the first time a La Liga match has been played in the United States.Fifa, football's world governing body, will make the final ...
Sports,Tennis
US Open champion Aryna Sabalenka has risen to number one in the latest WTA rankings, ending Iga Swiatek's 11-month stay at the summit.Belarusian Sabalenka, who also retained her Australian Open title in January, tops the rankings for the second time after an eight-week stay between September and...
At least 13 people, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli air strike near Lebanon’s largest public hospital in southern Beirut, according to the Lebanese health ministry.Another 57 people were injured, seven critically, when at least three buildings about 50m (160ft) from Rafik Har...
National,Back Page
India and China have agreed on patrolling arrangements to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border, India’s top diplomat has said.Vikram Misri said on Monday that the two sides have agreed on “disengagement and resolution of issues in these [border] areas that had arise...
Entertainment
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, the 1984 blockbuster The Terminator has become synonymous with the dangers of superintelligent machines. But it "helps and hinders" our understanding of AI.In one episode of the HBO sitcom Silicon Valley, Thomas Middleditch (Richard Hendricks) is explaining ...
North Korea has started sending troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine, South Korea's spy agency has said as Seoul warned of a "grave security threat".The allegation comes a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed 10,000 North Korean soldiers could join the wa...
The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer for allegedly directing a foiled plot to assassinate an American citizen who advocates for Khalistan - an independent Sikh state that would be carved out of India.The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York sai...
England interim manager Lee Carsley’s all-out attacking strategy backfired badly as they slumped to a shock defeat by Greece in the Uefa Nations League at Wembley.Jude Bellingham's 87th-minute goal looked to have rescued a desperately disappointing England display after Vangelis Pavlidis g...
In an election that was criticised by rights groups, Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has won a second term with more than 90% of the vote, the electoral commission has said.Only two candidates out of more than a dozen other hopefuls were allowed to stand against President Saied in Sunday's ...
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 26 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on a mosque and school housing displaced Palestinians in the centre of the territory.Dozens of people were also injured in strikes that hit Ibn Rushd school and Al-Aqsa Martyrs mosque in Deir al-Balah early ...
At least 70 people including children have been killed after an armed gang attacked a small town in Haiti.Sixteen people were seriously injured, according to the UN, as Gran Grif gang members rampaged through Pont-Sondé in the central Artibonite region about 71km (44 miles) north-west of the ...
At least four hospitals in Lebanon announced on Friday that they were suspending work because of Israeli strikes, while a Hezbollah-affiliated health organisation said that 11 paramedics had been killed in the past 24 hours.The four closures capped two weeks of Israeli strikes on hospitals and healt...
Chad, a decades-old ally of France, is now cleverly playing off Russia and its traditional Western partners, deepening relations with Moscow in a ploy that irritates and pressures Paris and Washington. President Mahamat Déby visited his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the Kremlin in J...
About 200 migrants set off from French shores on Wednesday, hours after a pregnant woman and six children were among 12 migrants who died after their dinghy “ripped” open while crossing the English Channel.Local prosecutors in France said 10 females and two males died in the incident on ...
World,Back Page
Major floods and landslides in Nepal have killed at least148 people and injured more than 100 across the Himalayan nation, police have reported.They say more than 50 people are still missing on Sunday after two days of intense rainfall, which has inundated the valley around the capital Kathmandu. Ab...
Donald Trump met Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky at his New York base in Trump Tower on Friday and said it was time Russia's war in Ukraine was settled.The Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly criticised the Ukrainian leader on the US campaign trail, and a meeting between the pair had...
Sudan's army has launched a major offensive against the powerful paramilitary group it is fighting in the country's civil war, targeting areas in the capital it lost at the start of the conflict.In dawn strikes on Thursday, government forces shelled Rapid Support Forces (RSF) bases in the ca...
A Japanese warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait between Taiwan and China for the first time, according to reports in Japanese media.The JS Sazanami, a naval destroyer, passed through the strait from north to south on Wednesday, accompanied by ships from Australia and New Zealand.The vessel was o...
More than 430 people have died from cholera in the past month, Sudan's health ministry says, as civil war continues to ravage the country.The number of infections has risen to about 14,000, it said in a statement.It said it was doing all it can to "combat cholera in the affected states, ami...
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