Andy Burnham has pledged to continue the UK’s “unwavering” support for Ukraine ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday. Zelensky will become the prime minister’s first international visitor since taking office a week ago, which No 10 said “illustrates the strength of the relationship between the two nations.” They will visit a
Nvidia boss Jensen Huang spent two days (July 15-16) in Tokyo courting Japan’s industrial and chip supplier elite, weeks after a keynote speech in Taiwan and months after a visit to South Korea. It left with deals that span Japan’s entire tech ecosystem: a national AI factory, partnerships with the country’s leading robotics companies, and
The dispute intensified last week when Ghana condemned the alleged murder of Bahiru Isak, a 40-year-old Ghanaian national living in the Khayelitsha suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Ghanaian officials said he was killed during anti-immigration protests on June 30. However, South African authorities say no such murder occurred and insist that the only Ghanaian
French President Emmanuel Macron is safe following reports of explosions in central Damascus on Tuesday morning, the Elysee Palace said. Macron is in the capital for talks with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa at the presidential palace. A security source told the BBC that the explosions were caused by two explosive devices and that several
Pope Leo XIV has called on European leaders to take up the “momentous challenge” of managing migration during his visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa. The pontiff urged Europe to help new arrivals better integrate and improve conditions in their countries of origin, during a mass on the island, which receives tens of thousands
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