About half of those who took part worked in jobs where they were exposed to high levels of heat, such as agriculture, brick kilns and salt flats. The others worked in cooler environments, such as schools and hospitals, although some workers were
North Korea’s state broadcaster has aired footage of the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, overseeing a missile test. Mr Kim was animated as he spoke to a military official in a field next to several large rocket launchers. Korean Central Television said
The deputy commander of Hamas’s military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was considered one of Israel’s most-wanted men. The European Union, which placed the Hamas leader on its terrorist blacklist, linked him directly to the 7 October attack led by the group
One of Haiti’s most powerful gangs, Unite Village de Dieu, has released a slickly produced but terrifying video, currently circulating online. It shows a well-armed militia, dressed in black combat gear, prepared to take on the Haitian state and any international force
Voting is taking place in Russia over three days until Sunday, spanning several time zones. Polling stations opened in the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia’s easternmost region, at 08:00 local time on Friday (20:00 GMT on Thursday) and will finally close in the westernmost
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Mr Putin’s most vocal critic, has called on Kremlin opponents to go en masse to polling stations at noon on Sunday to protest against the election. Her husband, Alexei Navalny, died suddenly in an Arctic Prison last
Officials in Washington, including President Joe Biden, have broadly avoided directly criticising Mr Netanyahu’s approach to the conflict, which began when Hamas gunmen stormed into southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking 253 others hostage.
“And you lived there in a horrific sense of fear. Every second that you live with this feeling is a terrible feeling, that you don’t really know if you’re going to wake up in the morning, or in a minute, if a
Medics who remained were frightened of being shot if they defied orders not to leave the building, Dr Hatim Rabaa, who also worked at Nasser, told the BBC in a phone call on 22 February, as explosions sounded in the background. But
In a statement about the summoning of Archbishop Kulbokas, the foreign ministry “noted that instead of appeals that legalise the right of the strong and encourage them [Russia] to further disregard the norms of international law, the head of the Holy See