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Volunteers have been taking fishing boats out to rescue flood victims and deliver aid
Cyclone catastrophe in Sri Lanka awakens volunteer spirit
COLOMBO — Sri Lankan actor and musician GK Reginold rides a motorised fishing boat through Colombo's suburbs, hoping to bring food and water to those in desperate need.Some of the families, Reginold says, have not received aid for days, isolated by the South Asian island nation's worst weather disaster in recent years.Cyclone Ditwah lashed the country last week, bringing catastrophic floods and landslides that killed more than 460 people, left hundreds missing and damaged some 30,000 homes.But the deluge has also inspired volunteerism among its people, as they face what their president has described as the "most challenging natural disaster" in its history."The main reason why I wanted to do this, is to at least help them to have one meal," Reginold tells the BBC. "And I was so...
December 03, 2025

Cyclone catastrophe in Sri Lanka awakens volunteer spirit

Federica Mogherini
Former EU foreign policy chief detained in anti-fraud probe
BRUSSELS — Federica Mogherini, the former High Representative of the European Union, has been detained during police raids as part of an anti-fraud investigation that has sent shockwaves across Brussels.Mogherini was among three suspects taken for questioning on Tuesday morning after Belgian authorities searched the offices of the European External Action Service (EEAS), the College of Europe in the city of Bruges and a series of private homes.As High Representative, Mogherini helmed the EEAS and led the bloc's foreign policy between 2014 and 2019. She has been the rector of the College of Europe, a prestigious university that receives EU funding, since September 2020.The second detainee is Stefano Sannino, a well-known senior EU official who served as EEAS secretary general from...
December 03, 2025

Former EU foreign policy chief detained in anti-fraud probe

Demonstrators hold a banner reading 'Gaza, let the internationals journalists enter' during a protest in Paris, 20 November, 2025
French journalist unions file legal complaint accusing Israel of obstructing press freedom
PARIS — The National Union of Journalists (SNJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have filed a complaint with France's national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat), accusing Israeli authorities of "obstructions to press freedoms" in the Palestinian territories.The two organisations — the largest journalist union in France and the largest journalist union worldwide — announced the move on Tuesday.Their complaint denounces what they describe as "an organised, systematic and prolonged" effort to prevent journalists, including French reporters, from accessing Gaza and carrying out their work safely.According to the complaint, no foreign journalist has been allowed to enter Gaza freely since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.The...
December 03, 2025

French journalist unions file legal complaint accusing Israel of obstructing press freedom

Police clash with protesters during a rally against austerity measures in next year's draft budget, in Sofia, Monday, Dec 1, 2025
Bulgaria's government fully withdraws controversial budget plan after latest protests
SOFIA — Bulgaria's government announced on Tuesday that it is withdrawing its controversial budget plan after nationwide protests drew tens of thousands of people — the largest demonstrations the country has seen in decades.An estimated 50,000 people took part in a rally in Sofia on Monday night, with organisers saying that another 50,000 joined demonstrations in other major cities.Protesters opposed the budget proposal, which sought to steeply increase taxes and social security contributions, and said it would mainly affect ordinary workers.It comes as Bulgaria enters its final preparatory stages ahead of entering the Eurozone in 2026. The country is set to transition from the lev to the euro on 1 January.The protest was organised by the country' main opposition coalition,...
December 03, 2025

Bulgaria's government fully withdraws controversial budget plan after latest protests

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will likely not receive any compensation for his early eviction from the Royal Lodge estate, the Crown Estate has said on Tuesday
Andrew denied six-figure compensation payout for leaving Royal Lodge, crown estate says
LONDON — Britain’s Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly a prince and the Duke of York, will be denied a six-figure compensation payout for his early eviction from a 30-room mansion on the Windsor estate due to its state of repair, the crown estate has said.In a briefing to the UK’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which examines the value for money of government projects and services, the Crown Estate said an initial assessment of the Royal Lodge showed “in all likelihood that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will not be owed any compensation for early surrender of the lease … once dilapidations are taken into account.”The Crown Estate added that while it does not believe “any compensation will necessarily be due,” Andrew would be set to receive a six-figure sum of £488,342.21...
December 03, 2025

Andrew denied six-figure compensation payout for leaving Royal Lodge, crown estate says

President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth looks on during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Tuesday
Trump and Hegseth insist they didn’t know of follow-up strike that killed survivors on suspected drug boat
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday sought to distance themselves from the decision to launch a follow-up strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, insisting they weren’t aware of what the military had done after the first strike didn’t kill everyone on board.During a Cabinet meeting, Trump told reporters that he was not consulted ahead of time, and that even months after the strikes, he had not yet been fully briefed on the circumstances surrounding them.“I didn’t know about the second strike. I didn’t know anything about the people,” he said. “I wasn’t involved, and I knew they took out a boat, but I would say this, they had a strike.”Trump added that he was relying on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to keep him...
December 03, 2025

Trump and Hegseth insist they didn’t know of follow-up strike that killed survivors on suspected drug boat

Juan Orlando Hernández presents his national statement during day two of COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom
Trump formally pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has formally pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, telling reporters at the White House on Tuesday, “I feel pretty good about it.”Hernández’s attorney Renato Stabile and a White House official told CNN earlier Tuesday that Trump had pardoned the former Honduran president. Trump announced his intention of granting a “full and complete pardon” to Hernández last week in a move that erases a major US drug-trafficking conviction for a onetime US ally.President of Honduras from 2014 until 2022, Hernández was convicted and sentenced last year to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug-trafficking offenses.Both Republican and Democratic members of Congress criticized Trump’s plan to pardon...
December 03, 2025

Trump formally pardons former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández

Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Legal, Human Rights and Correctional Affairs Yusril Ihza Mahendra and Dutch Ambassador Marc Gerritsen in Jakarta, 2 December, 2025
Indonesia to repatriate two convicted Dutch drug traffickers, including one on death row
JAKARTA — Indonesia and the Netherlands agreed to repatriate two Dutch nationals on Tuesday convicted of drug offences in Indonesia, including one facing the death penalty and another serving a life sentence.The agreement was signed by officials in both Jakarta and Amsterdam following a request by the Dutch king and foreign ministry for the release of the men, both of whom are in poor health, according to Indonesia’s senior law minister, Yusril Ihza Mahendra.Mahendra, who signed the agreement at a ceremony in Jakarta, said the request was approved by Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, and that he expected the men to be returned to the Netherlands on 8 December.Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel also signed it at a separate event in Amsterdam, witnessed by delegations from both...
December 03, 2025

Indonesia to repatriate two convicted Dutch drug traffickers, including one on death row

A statue of liberty is silhouetted as it sits on top of the Old Bailey in London
UK plans to scrap some jury trials in an attempt to clear a court backlog
LONDON — The right to trial by jury will be pared back in the United Kingdom in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases clogging up the justice system, the government announced on Tuesday.Justice Secretary David Lammy said overload and delays had created "an emergency in our courts" that risks collapsing trust in British justice.The UK's court system has struggled to clear a backlog of cases built up since the COVID-19 pandemic.The government says there are almost 80,000 cases waiting to be heard in criminal courts in England and Wales, more than double the pre-pandemic figure, with some cases taking several years to reach trial.Under the changes, crimes with a likely sentence of three years or less will be tried before a judge alone, up from the current two years. Judges will also...
December 03, 2025

UK plans to scrap some jury trials in an attempt to clear a court backlog

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
US Homeland Security secretary calls for more travel bans
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said she will recommend a travel ban on several countries which she claims are "flooding" the US with criminal activity.Writing on social media on Monday, Noem said she had met President Donald Trump and decided to suggest "a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies''.Trump and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) then shared Noem's post on their respective official social media accounts.It is not yet clear which countries the proposed travel ban would impact, or when it could begin. The BBC has requested comment from the DHS.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday evening that Trump had announced a...
December 02, 2025

US Homeland Security secretary calls for more travel bans

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