Israeli police have attacked dozens of worshippers in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound injuring seven people, according to witnesses. The raid took place before dawn on Wednesday with Israeli police claiming they were responding to “rioting”. The Palestinian Red

Gunmen have abducted a journalist in Mexico's violent eastern state of Veracruz, prompting a search operation to locate him, authorities and his employer said Tuesday. Richard Villa was snatched in the city of Poza Rica on Monday while repairing his motorcycle, according to the

Former US President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to 34 felony charges during a court hearing in New York. The former US president is seen sitting alongside his lawyers to hear the charges against him. Click the play button at the top of this page to watch live BBC News coverage of

Former President Donald Trump has entered the courtroom for his arraignment, where he's expected to plead not guilty to all charges. Trump arrived at the Manhattan district attorney's office earlier Tuesday afternoon, where he was placed under arrest and in police custody

In its latest attempt to lay claims over Indian territory, China's Ministry of Civil Affairs has standardised the names of 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh, which it referred to as "Zangnan, the southern part of Tibet." China has come up with the names of 11 places in

Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, in a historic strategic shift provoked by Moscow's war on Ukraine, which doubles the US-led alliance's border with Russia. Last year, the Kremlin's all-out invasion of Ukraine upended Europe's security landscape and

About 120 residents living near Colombia's Nevada del Ruiz volcano were being evacuated Monday, officials said, after increased seismic activity. A 1985 eruption by the volcano that killed 25,000 people is considered the worst natural disaster in Colombian history and one of the

Donald Trump will make an unprecedented appearance before a New York judge Tuesday to answer criminal charges that threaten to throw the 2024 White House race into turmoil. Trump is the first sitting or former American president to be criminally indicted -- a historic development that

Finland is set to become the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. The country's flag will be hoisted outside NATO headquarters as it becomes the newest member of the Western alliance. "Tomorrow we will welcome Finland as the 31st

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was granted bail today in a 2019 defamation case and his two-year jail sentence was paused until a decision on his appeal challenging his conviction. A Gujarat court will take up his appeal on April 13. Mr Gandhi, accompanied by sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

The killing of Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky is being investigated as a "high-profile murder", authorities have said. Tatarsky, a vocal supporter of Russia's war in Ukraine, died in an explosion at a St Petersburg cafe on Sunday evening. Twenty-four others

Russia will place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus near its ally’s borders with NATO countries, the Russian envoy to Minsk has said, in a move set to escalate tensions with the West. Russian ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov said on Sunday night that the weapons would be

The death toll rose to 32 Sunday after a batch of ferocious storms and tornadoes devastated communities across the American South and Midwest, while parts of the Southern Plains braced for their own round of severe weather. The storm outbreak Friday that walloped the country spawned

Finland’s main conservative party has claimed victory in a tightly-fought parliamentary election. With all of the votes counted on Sunday, the centre-right National Coalition Party (NCP) came out on top at 20.8 percent. They were followed by the right-wing populist party, The

An Israeli soldier has shot dead a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, hours after a policeman killed a medical student at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa compound. The Palestinian Authority identified the man killed in the West Bank on Saturday as Mohammad Ra’ed Baradiyah, 24.

Ukraine has branded Russia’s presidency of the UN Security Council for the month of April “a symbolic blow,” joining a chorus of outrage from Western countries. Moscow assumes the presidency as part of its monthly rotation between the Security Council’s 15

Three British nationals are currently being held in custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan, a humanitarian organisation has told the BBC. Scott Richards from the Presidium Network named one of the men as Kevin Cornwell, 53, from Middlesbrough. Mr Richards said he and another unnamed

South Africa's governing ANC party said Saturday that it had sent senior officials to Russia to discuss "recalibration of the global order" with President Vladimir Putin's party. "The visit follows an invitation from United Russia Party, Russia's largest

A major storm ripped through the south-central and eastern parts of the United States, destroying a major portion of the impacted towns. As quoted by news agencies, the officials said Saturday that the death toll has risen to 21, with dozens of others facing injuries. A spokesperson

Authorities in Iran have been making clear their determination to enforce the compulsory hijab on women. It comes after months of protests demanding an end to the restriction. A hardline Iranian MP has issued an ultimatum to the judiciary to come up with measures to put a stop to