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Modelling agent used businesses to recruit girls and arrange US visas to visit Jeffrey Epstein, Brazilian women tell BBC.

New legislation will require schools to use Mandarin by default, taking priority over minority ethnic languages such as Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongolian China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), the state legislature, will vote on Thursday on a suite of new laws agreed at this year’s annual two session

BBC correspondents give us their biggest takeaways from China's National People's Congress.

Leo Brent Bozell apologises after weighing in on a dispute rooted in the country's apartheid past.

Strike in Shukeiri killed teachers and health care workers and is latest incident in three-year war At least 17 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Wednesday when an explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces struck a secondary school and a health care cen

Crew of Thai-registered bulk carrier forced to flee fire, as US says it has destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels Middle East crisis live – latest updates Three merchant ships have been struck in and around the strait of Hormuz, including a Thai registered bulk carrier that caught fire after leav

Company also launches tools to spot scammers as Thai police arrest 21 people Meta disabled more than 150,000 accounts and Thai police arrested 21 people in a sweeping international crackdown on south-east Asian criminal scam centers that targeted people around the world, the social media company sai

The US president might learn that starting wars is much easier than ending them, writes the BBC's international editor.

Iranians say they are sheltering at home and rarely venturing out on near-empty streets as the US-Israeli bombing campaign continues.

Experts documented murder, torture and disappearances under president Nayib Bukele’s policy targeting gangs The draconian mass incarceration policy of El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, may have led to crimes against humanity, according to a new study by legal experts. By locking up 1.4% of the

Witnesses say drone strikes hit a residential building frequently occupied by expatriates and aid workers in Goma.

Six Palestinians have been killed during attacks by settlers in the West Bank since the start of Israel's war, the UN says.

Decision to shield pro-Bolsonaro truck driver sentenced for 8 January 2023 attack could inflame Brazil election politics Argentina has granted asylum to a Brazilian fugitive convicted for his role in 2023 pro-Bolsonaro riots – a decision that analysts say could reverberate in Brazil’s upcoming presi

Gunmen from Islamic State West Africa Province overran four military bases and abducted 300 civilians, say reports At least 65 Nigerian soldiers have been killed in jihadist raids across the country’s north-east in the last two weeks, as the west African state battles to contain one of the world’s d

The group of nations welcomes the idea of releasing oil in response to the surge in prices since the US-Israel war with Iran began

Russia says the attack hit civilians and could not have been carried out without British help.

Danish researchers whose work on effects of vaccines has been called into question are at center of US vaccine policy New details are leading experts to fear that an “unethical” vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau is the “prototype” for studies under Robert F Kennedy Jr, secretary of the US department of

Lori Idlout, formerly of the NDP, has become the latest lawmaker in the current parliament to cross the floor.

Attack on residential part of M23-controlled city blamed by rebel group on government At least three people were killed in a drone attack in Goma early on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the M23 rebel group has said. The attack happened at about 4am in a residential neighbourhood in the city,

Harish Rana has been in a vegetative state since 2013, when he fell from a balcony and suffered head injuries.

The new president won office by promising to clean up crime, but his background is red rag to a bull for many Just south of Santiago, the tiny rural town of Paine is a quiet grid of painted abode facades, shaded squares and shuttered shop fronts as the summer holidays draw to a close. But the white-

The perpetrators were jailed for 15 years for robbery with violence in the east African country, where homophobic attacks are increasing The sentencing of two people who attacked and robbed two gay men in Kenya has been hailed by LGBTQ+ rights advocates as a breakthrough and a sign of hope for the c

With Bellarmine Mugabe due in court we look at what has happened to Zimbabwe's ex-first family.

Activists played a key role in making contact with the women as they tried to dodge their minders.