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Wed, 12 Oct 2022 08:28:27 GMT
Crimea bridge attack arrests as fresh blasts heard
Russia detains eight over Saturday's incident, while explosions are reported in several Ukrainian cities.

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:22:45 GMT
Elon Musk denies he spoke to Putin about Ukraine war
The Tesla boss has denied reports he spoke to the Russian leader before tweeting about the Ukraine war.

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 15:25:07 GMT
Madeleine McCann suspect charged with separate sex offences
The key suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine is charged in Germany over unrelated offences.

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:09:08 GMT
Ukraine war: US condemns 'brutal' Russian strikes on Ukraine
Joe Biden says attacks on cities including central Kyiv show the "brutality" of Putin's "illegal war".

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:09:16 GMT
Switzerland discriminating against men on pension benefits, ECHR finds
The ECHR decision relating to pensions is set to cost the government millions in backdated payouts.

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:56:11 GMT
UK businessman charged with 'helping Russian oligarch evade sanctions'
Graham Bonham-Carter is accused of helping oligarch Oleg Deripaska to evade US-imposed sanctions.

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 05:49:46 GMT
More funerals to be held for Irish blast victims
Catherine O'Donnell, her son James Monaghan and James O'Flaherty died in an explosion last Friday.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:57:40 GMT
Ukraine's day of missile strikes in a minute
Russia launches revenge attacks across several Ukrainian regions, including capital city Kyiv.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:55:09 GMT
Ukraine war: Russian hawks celebrate deadly response to Crimea setback
Missiles launched at Ukraine were the first day at work for a newly appointed, hard-line Russian general.

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:03:09 GMT
Chinese technology poses major risk - GCHQ Chief
Sir Jeremy Fleming says the country's leadership is aiming to manipulate technology to gain influence.

Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:39:06 GMT
Russia confirms Meta's designation as extremist
Meta platforms Facebook and Instagram have been banned since March for alleged Russophobia.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:57:58 GMT
Shock and horror after Russia's wave of strikes across Ukraine
Russia's latest attacks have left shell-shocked residents and fiery debris, says Paul Adams in Kyiv.

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 19:18:51 GMT
Crimea bridge: Putin accuses Ukraine of 'terrorism'
Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Crimea, saying it was an "act of terrorism".

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:25:23 GMT
Ukraine in maps: Tracking the war with Russia
Russia launches missiles at cities across Ukraine days after a blast damaged a key bridge linking Russia and Crimea.

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 14:55:12 GMT
Crimean bridge: Who - or what - caused the explosion?
Russia has blamed a truck bomb - but examination of the footage seems to contradict that.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:03:00 GMT
Ukraine war: Liberating towns is a shot in the arm for Ukrainian troops
The BBC's defence correspondent meets the people of a retaken town - and the soldiers who freed it.

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 16:52:47 GMT
Ukraine war: 'Russian attack' on city claimed by Moscow kills 13
Zaporizhzhia is controlled by Ukraine but is in a region illegally annexed by Russia.

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:26:37 GMT
Crimean bridge: Excitement and fear in Ukraine after bridge blast
The sight of the crippled bridge is a morale boost - but fear remains, writes the BBC's Paul Adams.

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 18:47:54 GMT
Ukraine war: World must act now to stop Russia nuclear threat - Zelensky
Ukraine's president tells the BBC "they are not ready to do it... But they begin to communicate".

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:05:05 GMT
Climate change: Greenland's culture shifts as Arctic heats up
As temperatures rise and sea-ice melts, lifestyles are changing as fast as the climate in Greenland.

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 10:18:47 GMT
Wildlife abandons 'Europe's Amazon' nature reserve
Forest fires ignited by Russian shelling have devastated Ukraine's Drevlyansky reserve.

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 11:06:01 GMT
Ales Bialiatski: Who is the Nobel Peace Prize winner?
The jailed activist has spent decades fighting Aleksander Lukashenko's authoritarian rule in Belarus.

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:16:02 GMT
Putin's dream of Russian victory slips away in Ukraine
While Russia's president annexes large areas of Ukraine, the truth on the ground looks very different.

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 21:00:58 GMT
US midterm elections: What Congress can learn from country with youngest lawmakers
As part of a new series, we explore whether Norway has a solution for the US and its ageing leaders.

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 20:20:28 GMT
Russia's Vladimir Putin at 70: Seven key moments that made him
As Vladimir Putin turns 70, we look back at a series of turning points that helped shape his worldview.

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:36:31 GMT
Ukraine war: Liberated town shows human cost of Russia's defeat
The BBC's Orla Guerin finds desolate scenes in Lyman, a town Ukraine recaptured from Russia.

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 23:22:23 GMT
Ukraine war: Questions over France's weapons supply to Kyiv
Paris's relative absence in its supply of weapons to Ukraine leaves eastern European countries wary.

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 23:32:27 GMT
Space, the unseen frontier in the war in Ukraine
It is the first war where commercial space capabilities have played a significant role, a US general says.

Wed, 05 Oct 2022 23:29:51 GMT
Will UK royals follow the Danish downsizing?
Could the British Royal Family have its own "slimming down" in the footsteps of Denmark's queen?

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:26:01 GMT
Inuit Greenlanders demand answers over Danish birth control scandal
Denmark and Greenland agree to investigate traumatising birth control procedures on Inuit Greenlanders.

Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:00:19 GMT
Ukraine war: Tortured for refusing to teach in Russian
Teachers in parts of recently-occupied Ukraine say they were beaten and forced to destroy textbooks.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 22:19:39 GMT
One of world's most active volcanoes erupts again
Video shows huge plumes of smoke and lava pouring into the sea from Italy's Stromboli island, off Sicily.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 09:42:19 GMT
Kyiv bridge: Near miss for pedestrian in missile strike
A pedestrian on Kyiv's Klitschko bridge has a narrow escape when a Russian missile hits the walkway.

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:06:15 GMT
Ukraine war: BBC journalist ducks as explosions happen in central Kyiv
Hugo Bachega delivers a news report as several explosions happen in the centre of Kyiv.

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 10:49:54 GMT
Ukraine war: 'Russian missiles' leave Zaporizhzhia flats in ruins
Residential buildings are left in total ruin after overnight missile strikes on Zaporizhzhia.

Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:56:19 GMT
Crimea bridge: Video shows moment of huge explosion
A thick, dark cloud of smoke is seen after a blast on the peninsula's only land link to Russia.



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