Day: October 15, 2025

But the president would not be drawn on whether the CIA had been told to topple Nicolas Maduro.

Activists say the unprecedented round-up could be the beginning of a wider crackdown on China’s underground churches.

The group’s armed wing says it has returned all the bodies of hostages it can reach in the ruins of Gaza.

The Pentagon says Hegseth and other military leaders on board, who were travelling back from a Nato meeting, are safe.

Syria’s leader suggested he would continue to allow Russia access to its military bases in Syria.

This will be the fourth consecutive winter of outages since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Palestinians in Gaza are reported to be stockpiling food, amid anxiety that the ceasefire will unravel.

BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.

Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.

Under the Gaza ceasefire deal, Israel has agreed to hand over the bodies of 15 Palestinians in return for every dead Israeli hostage.