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Facebook owner Meta says it is banning several Russian state media networks, alleging they use deceptive tactics to carry out influence operations and evade detection on its platforms. “After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets. Rossiya Segodnya, RT and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally […]

The number of people in Myanmar who have died in the wake of Typhoon Yagi rose to more than 220, with nearly 80 others still missing, the military government said. The storm swept through northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar in early September and has killed more than 500 people across the region so far, […]

The US Secret Service says it is “aware” of a social media post by Elon Musk in which he said that “no one is even trying” to assassinate President Joe Biden or Vice-president Kamala Harris. Mr Musk has since deleted the post and said it was intended as a joke. His post on X, formerly […]

Embattled hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been arrested in New York City on unspecified federal charges, federal authorities told the BBC’s US partner CBS. The arrest in Manhattan follows raids on two of his properties in Los Angeles and Miami in March as part of an “ongoing investigation” into sex trafficking by authorities. Mr […]

Eight people have died overnight while trying to cross the Channel from France to England, French police say. Rescue services were alerted after the boat got into difficulty in waters north of Boulogne-sur-mer in the northern Pas-de-Calais region after 01:00 local time (00:00 BST). The rubber vessel had around 60 people on board, from countries […]

Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated as a powerful typhoon made landfall near China’s financial hub, Shanghai. Typhoon Bebinca hit at about 07:30 local time (23:30 GMT) on Monday in the coastal area of Lingang New City in Shanghai’s east, the China Meteorological Administration said. It is the strongest storm to hit Shanghai in […]

Tito Jackson, an original member of the Jackson 5 pop group and brother of the late Michael Jackson, has died aged 70, US media report. An official cause of death is yet to be determined. Tito performed in the iconic ensemble with brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, who died in 2009. He was recently […]

Isata, a single mother in her early twenties, epitomises the horrors of the lives of sex workers in Sierra Leone. She has been beaten, robbed, kidnapped, trafficked to another country, rescued, trafficked and rescued again. Amidst all of this, she became hooked on a dangerous street drug, kush, that is wreaking havoc in the West […]

When I started at BBC News three years ago, a work friend gave me some advice about my new colleague Huw Edwards. “You can be funny,” they said. “But don’t be funnier than Huw. “You can be clever, but don’t be too clever.” It was a light-hearted warning about a presenter who, back then, was […]

Emergency services are shoring up flood defences in Central and Eastern Europe after torrential rainfall swelled rivers and damaged thousands of homes. Storm Boris proved deadly in Romania, where four people were killed during floods in the south-eastern region of Galati. In the Czech Republic, flooding has led to evacuations and 51,000 households in the […]