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Police arrested about 300 protesters during campus raids at Columbia University and The City University of New York (CUNY) in New York on Tuesday night, officials say.Footage online shows masked counter-demonstrators - supporting Israel - attacking their rivals with sticks and attempting to dismantle barricades.US universities have been gripped by …

A 98-year-old Ukrainian woman has said she walked six miles (10km) under shelling, supporting herself with sticks and sleeping on the ground. The woman, identified as Lidia Stepanivna, left a rural settlement in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine, which is now occupied by Russia – she was trying to reach areas controlled by Kyiv. She said she had walked with…

There are growing fears about the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the music industry. A UK parliamentary committee is calling on the government to stop AI firms damaging the business. They cited examples of musicians not being credited for their work and the deepfaking of artists, such as Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift.Subscribe here: http://b…

Protesters have clashed at pro-Palestinian encampments in Los Angeles, hours after police cleared a similar protest in New York. At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), vice-chancellor Mary Osako said, "horrific acts of violence occurred at the encampment tonight". At Columbia University in New York, police arrested protesters nearly 2…

Riot police in Georgia have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds protesting against a bill seen by some to be targeting media freedoms. Under the "foreign agent" bill, independent media that receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign donors would have to register as organisations "bearing the interests of a foreign power". P…

New York City police have entered the Columbia University en masse and are arresting students.The NYPD told the BBC officers have entered Hamilton Hall, an academic building recently occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters.The activists had taken over the Hamilton Hall building nearly 24 hours earlier amid two weeks of campus protests over the Israe…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will launch an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah regardless of truce talks with Hamas. It comes amid ongoing attempts to try to reach an agreement for a ceasefire and hostage releases.His comments follow renewed warnings by the US and UN against a Rafah invasion.The US secretary of state A…

In August 2020, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was elected president of Belarus.Tsikhanouskaya then fled to Lithuania in 2020 after President Alexander Lukashenko deployed a severe crackdown on protests against his disputed election win.Siarhei Tsikhanouski is among several prominent imprisoned opposition figures whom relatives say have not been heard fr…

At least 170 have died in Kenya after weeks of heavy rains and flooding. The country’s president has announced that people living in areas of risk of flooding or landslides will be asked to evacuate from tomorrow. William Ruto was speaking in Mai Mahiu, north of Nairobi, where an overflowing reservoir has wiped out a swathe of houses and swept doze…

Donald Trump has been fined $9,000 for violating the court’s gag order imposed to stop him attacking jurors and potential witnesses in his hush-money trial. Judge Merchan ruled against Trump on 9 out of 10 contempt charges and imposed a financial penalty of $1,000 (£799) per violation. The Judge added that if Mr Trump continues to flout the court’s…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will launch an invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah regardless of truce talks with Hamas. The Hamas delegation are considering a new Gaza truce and hostage release proposal from Israel. But at a meeting of hostages' relatives, Mr Netanyahu said he would invade "with or without" a deal. The US…

Three years ago, Covid ravaged India and brought it to its knees, yet health is not a major campaign issue for parties. For voters who were affected – it is. The BBC visited rural health clinics in two states - Bihar and Kerala – on opposite ends of the healthcare spectrum.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor more news, analysis and features vi…

World of Warcraft is celebrating its 20th birthday this year and some of the game's most senior bosses have told the BBC there is "boundless" potential and "easily" enough stories to keep the game going for another 20 years. Since Microsoft's merger with World of Warcraft's maker Activision Blizzard last year, there has been speculation about the f…

Four police officers have been fatally shot with four others officers wounded while serving a warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials say. At least one suspected attacker was found dead in the front yard of a barricaded home after a standoff that lasted three hours, police said. Authorities said two armed suspects were involved. It is one o…

An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran's security forces, a leaked document seen by BBC Eye Investigations says. 16-year-old Nika Shakarami disappeared during an anti-regime protest in 2022. The Woman, Life, Freedom movement had been sparked just days earlier by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Am…

For months BBC reporter Adnan El-Bursh reported on the war in Gaza while living in a tent, eating one meal a day and struggling to keep his wife and five children safe. Since the attacks on Israel on October 7th more than 100 journalists have been killed in Gaza according to the organisation Reporters Without Borders. Israel says it take all reason…

Protests calling for universities to boycott companies and individuals with ties to Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza have swept college campuses across the US.The campus movement ignited when Columbia University in New York called the police two weeks ago to remove a small group of student protesters who had pitched tents on campus.Columbia Univ…

Pedro Sanchez has said he will stay on as Spain’s prime minister, after days of speculation over his future. A court opened an initial enquiry into his wife over corruption claims, and after Mr Sanchez cancelled official engagements, many expected him to either resign or call a confidence motion. But instead, he denounced the claims as a harassment…

In Gaza, Palestinian journalists document the war as they live it on a daily basis. In this BBC World Service film, we hear the story of BBC Arabic’s reporter in Gaza, Adnan El-Bursh who found himself reporting the news, as he was living through it.Israel launched a military campaign in response to Hamas' cross-border attack on southern Israel on 7…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said he is “hopeful” Hamas will accept Israel’s latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage release deal. He called the offer "extraordinarily generous", and a Hamas delegation is now discussing the potential deal with mediators in Cairo. It comes after weeks of impasse, while Israel’s government f…

More than 40 people have died in Kenya after a dam burst, following heavy rains and flooding. People in villages 60km (37 miles) from the capital, Nairobi, were swept away as they slept, and rescue teams are digging through the mud in search of survivors in several villages, including Kamuchiri and Kianugu in Nakuru county. Seventeen of the 42 bodi…

Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf quits, triggering a search for a successor and new first minister. He said he had "underestimated" the level of hurt after ending a power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens last week. The deal which brought Green ministers into government for the first time anywhere in the UK was designed to last until…

For the last 10 days, thousands of Georgians - many in their late teens and early 20s - have been bringing the traffic of the capital, Tbilisi, to a standstill.They demand that the government scrap plans to introduce a controversial bill - dubbed the "foreign agent" law - many say is inspired by authoritarian legislation neighbouring Russia uses to…

This story contains references to severe mental suffering which some viewers might find distressing. Germany, France and the UK are all currently debating whether medically assisted dying should be permitted, and for whom. But medical assistance in dying in Canada, also known as MAID, is already available for adults with terminal illness, or seriou…

The United Nations human rights director has said tht Israel may be using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. More than 70% of the population in northern Gaza are facing “catastrophic hunger” according to the UN.BBC News has obtained exclusive video filmed by an American doctor in a hospital there, documenting the scale of the crisis. Israel has…

Hamas has published a video showing the first proof of life of two more hostages being held in Gaza. In undated footage filmed under duress, Omri Miran says he has been held for 202 days and Keith Siegel mentions this week's Passover holiday, indicating the clips were filmed recently. Both were captured when Hamas launched its deadly attacks on 7 O…

Protests against the war in Gaza that started at Columbia University a week ago have swept college campuses across the US. Protesters are calling for universities to boycott companies and individuals with ties to Israel amid the ongoing war there. The past 10 days have seen the most intense and widespread US protests of the past six months. Subscri…

British troops could be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route, the BBC has learned. The US has said no American forces would go ashore and an unnamed "third party" would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach. The UK is understood to be considering tasking British troops with this when the aid corrido…

Aeroplanes have become bigger and faster but their impact on the climate has also increased. Jet engines burn kerosene which releases carbon dioxide - one of the main greenhouse gases causing climate change. So, could hydrogen powered planes be the solution?This video is from BBC Click, the BBC’s flagship technology programme.Subscribe here: http:/…

Filmmaker Gary Hustwit has created a documentary which can rewrite itself before every screening. So, how does the technology work? This video is from BBC Click, the BBC’s flagship technology programme.Subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUogFor more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news#BBCNews…

The Pentagon says it will "rush" Patriot air defence missiles and artillery ammunition to Ukraine as part of its new military aid package. However Patriot systems for launching the missiles will not be sent, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Patriots were "urgently" needed to face a growing Russian air…

A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned. Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday. Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a hand pump to push air into her lungs. However she died on T…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned Washington will act if China does not stop supplying Russia with items used in its assault on Ukraine. Speaking to the BBC in Beijing, the US's top diplomat said he had made clear to his counterparts they were "helping fuel the biggest threat" to European security since the Cold War. He did not say wh…

King Charles is to resume some public engagements after encouraging progress in his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace has said.However it won't be a full return to official engagements for the King, who began his treatment in February. The type of cancer has not been disclosed. The palace said the King’s doctors were "very encouraged by the progr…

Artificial intelligence poses a threat of disinformation worldwide, via flooding social media with bots and deepfakes.For instance, a campaign using AI to impersonate Omar al-Bashir, the former leader of Sudan, received hundreds of thousands of views on TikTok, adding online confusion to a country torn apart by civil war.While AI is supercharging d…

The Supreme Court has heard arguments about whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president. The justices have been asked to consider whether any president should have full or partial immunity. The outcome will determine, among other things, whether Trump should face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn h…

A trial of the world’s first “personalised” vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer is under way in the UK. The mRNA vaccine is designed to help patient’s immune systems to recognise and wipe out cancerous melanoma cells. It is personalised to the individual patient – with its make-up created to match the unique genetic signature of the p…

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing, as part of efforts to shore up relations between the two countries. But, while the China-US relationship is beginning to stabilise, but it is still being tested by "negative factors", Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. Blinken’s visit to China comes days …

Laurence Fox has been ordered to pay £90,000 in damages each to two people he referred to as "paedophiles". The actor-turned-politician from the UK lost a High Court libel case with Simon Blake, a former trustee for charity Stonewall, and drag artist Crystal. The remarks on X, formerly Twitter, came in an exchange about a UK supermarket Sainsbury's…

People can easily make fake election-related images with artificial intelligence tools, despite rules designed to prevent such content.Politicians including US President Joe Biden and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan have found themselves victims of deepfakes.These are fake images or audio recordings generated by AI and have spread rapidly across social …

The US Supreme Court has heard pointed arguments on whether a former president is immune from criminal prosecution over acts carried out while in office.Donald Trump, who is facing dozens of criminal charges across four cases, claims he - and all presidents - should have presidential immunity.Trump's trial on charges he tried to overturn the 2020 e…

The disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction has been overturned by New York's top court, on the basis that he did not receive a fair trial. The New York Court of Appeals found that prosecutors were allowed to call witnesses whose accusations were not part of the trial. The ruling said that meant he was tried on past behavi…

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction in New York has been overturned, on the basis that he did not receive a fair trial.The New York Court of Appeals said prosecutors in the pivotal #MeToo case called witnesses whose accusations were not part of the charges against him. The court said that meant he was unfairly tried fo…

Israel appears to be moving ahead with plans for an offensive in Rafah, in southern Gaza, despite warnings of the potentially catastrophic humanitarian consequences for the 1.5 million displaced Palestinians sheltering there. Israel says it hopes to launch an assault on remaining Hamas battalions in Rafah. Meanwhile, Hamas have released a video sho…

Scotland's first minister has scrapped the power-sharing agreement involving the SNP and Scottish Green parties. Both parties had been in government since August 2021 and support Scottish independence. Humza Yousaf says his party will return to minority rule with "immediate effect". It follows the Scottish government's decision to scrap key climate…

The US secretary of State is in China aiming to put relations between the countries on a steadier footing. Antony Blinken has been in Shanghai holding meetings with business leaders. He's now heading to Beijing for talks with the country's foreign minister, Wang Yi. Although tensions have eased since last year, disagreements on issues such as trade…

Protests against the war in Gaza have been taking centre stage at college campuses across the US.Activists have been calling for universities to "divest from genocide" and to stop investing large school endowments in companies involved in weapons manufacturing and other industries supporting Israel's war in Gaza.Students at Columbia University in N…