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(BBC) North Korea has ordered a strict national lockdown after confirming its first official Covid infections. State media have repo...

BBC-A veteran Palestinian-American correspondent for Al Jazeera has been killed while covering a raid by Israeli forces in the occup...

BBC-Security forces are out in force across Sri Lanka with orders to shoot looters on sight amid continuing protests at the governme...

BBC-US law enforcement agencies are beefing up security for Supreme Court justices after a leak suggested they may overturn legalise...

BBC-Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, son of a former Philippines’ dictator, is headed for a landslide win in the co...

BBC-Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has resigned amid mass protests at the government’s handling of a deepe...

BBC-Ahead of Victory Day, Moscow was full of rumour and speculation. Was Vladimir Putin preparing a major announcement on RussiaR...

BBC-An evangelist is in trouble after telling people he knows of a gate leading to heaven from south-western Nigeria that he can sho...

BBC-Rwandan President Paul Kagame has suspended his minister for youth and culture, the authorities have said. Edouard BamporikiR...

BBC-The Covid pandemic has caused the deaths of nearly 15 million people around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) estim...