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Verified videos emerging from Iran show bodies piled up in a hospital, snipers stationed on buildings and CCTV cameras being destroyed, following the unprecedented crackdown on protests earlier this month. BBC Verify has been tracking the spread of protests across Iran since they first erupted in late December, but the near total internet blackout imposed…

The Trump administration has quickly abandoned its familiar “deny and attack” playbook after initially using it when federal agents shot dead Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning. Within 24 hours, as various videos of the shooting circulated online, it became clear that the White House was out of step with public opinion and what…

The United States is planning to remove the captain and first officer of a Russian-flagged oil tanker from UK waters “imminently”, a court has heard. The Americans seized the vessel, the Marinera, on 7 January south of Iceland before sailing it to the coast of Moray, east of Inverness. In a late-night virtual hearing of…

Extra pumps are being installed after “the wettest week” since 2014, experts have said. Parts of Somerset experienced heavy rainfall over the weekend and the area is also expected to be badly affected by Storm Chandra, which has seen a weather warning put in place from Monday evening until 09:00 GMT on Tuesday. The A361…

The Trump administration will invest $1.6bn (£1.2bn) in a US critical minerals firm, marking officials’ latest push to reduce China’s dominance over the rare earths sector. The agreement with USA Rare Earth, which will give the government a stake in the firm, emerged days after US President Donald Trump claimed to have secured the “framework”…

A group of officers in Nigeria are set to face a military court after being accused of “plotting to overthrow the government” of President Bola Tinubu last year, an armed forces’ statement has said. Sixteen officers were arrested last October after what were described as “acts of indiscipline and breaches of service regulations”. At the…

The leader of a Kenyan cult accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death will be charged over a further 52 deaths at another village, prosecutors say. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was arrested in 2023 after 429 bodies, including children, were dug up from mass graves in the remote Shakahola forest. He has…

Google has agreed to pay $68m (£51m) to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly listened to people’s private conversations through their phones. Users accused Google Assistant – a virtual assistant present on many Android devices – of recording private conversations after it was inadvertently triggered on their devices. They claimed the recordings were then shared…

The Israeli military says it has retrieved the body of the last hostage in Gaza, paving the way for the next phase of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan to get under way. It had been searching for Master Sgt Ran Gvili since the ceasefire with Hamas began in October. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

Chinese officials said a recent trade agreement with Canada is not meant to undercut other countries, after Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Canadian products if Canada finalises the “deal” with Beijing. “It does not target any third party,” China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday of the new “strategic partnership”…