Three oil tankers linked to Iran have been gradually making their way toward the U.S. after being seized by naval forces when President Donald Trump first imposed a blockade on the regime. The Tifani and Majestic X are now off the coast of Brazil after they were boarded in the Indian Ocean in April, according
The flight suspension follows a series of reported drone strikes in Tigray. On Tuesday, a strike in the southern town of Alamata killed at least 14 people and injured 22 others, according to the Tigrayan authorities. The town’s mayor, Mogos Shiferaw, told the BBC that more than five drones and one fighter jet had carried
US President Donald Trump has held talks with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez at the UN General Assembly, their first face-to-face meeting since the White House backed her to take over the South American country’s government. Rodríguez succeeded Nicolás Maduro shortly after US forces conducted a raid on the Venezuelan capital Caracas and seized him.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said 184.5kg of cocaine was found concealed in brown boxes at a courier facility in Lagos on Monday 3 August. The agency said it was being exported by an international trafficking network that for years had used Nigeria as a transit hub to move drugs to the UK,
Now, weeks after Iran allowed the partial reopening of the strait – under a ceasefire agreement with the United States that largely holds – the sea is calm once again and the fishermen are returning. One of them, Abdol Rahman, took the BBC across the strait to see up close how the war has affected
