Haiti’s health system is “on the verge of collapse”, the UN children’s agency, Unicef, has warned, saying six out of 10 hospitals in the country are barely operational. “The combination of violence, mass displacement, dangerous epidemics, and increasing malnutrition has bent Haiti’s health system,” said Bruno Maes, Unicef’s representative in the Caribbean nation. But he...
Just now Barbara Plett Usher,BBC News Africa correspondent, Nairobi Getty Images Kenyan President William Ruto will become the first African leader in more than 15 years to make an official state visit to the US. This is an opportunity for President Joe Biden to demonstrate commitment to Africa at a time when Washington appears to...
25 minutes ago Will Grant,Mexico and Central America correspondent in Guerrero BBC Cinthia Juarez is running for office in Acapulco after her friend, a famous gay rights activist, was murdered on the campaign trail In what is the most violent election campaign in Mexico’s history, the western state of Guerrero is the most dangerous place...
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she plans to vote for Donald Trump, her former opponent and boss, in the 2024 US presidential election. Ms Haley, who once served as Mr Trump’s United Nations ambassador, was the last of his major opponents to drop out of the party primary contest, in early March. At...
Periodical cicadas are unique insects that have a 13-year or a 17-year life cycle, most of which they spend underground. They come to the surface in groups that scientists call broods. Each brood with its descendants is named in a Roman number. This year, Brood XIX and Brood XIII are emerging together. The last time...
21 minutes ago Lucy Manning,Special Correspondent, BBC News Hostages and Missing Families Forum Naama, 19, was among seven young female conscripts taken hostage by Hamas gunmen who attacked Nahal Oz military base in southern Israel on 7 October The brother of Israeli hostage Naama Levy has said the family’s decision to release new harrowing video...
Families of children killed and injured in the 2022 Uvalde, Texas mass shooting have announced a $2m (£1.57m) settlement with the city, days before the anniversary of the massacre. Nineteen children and two teachers were shot when an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, with police taking more than an hour to stop...
A man who was renovating his wine cellar in Austria has made an extraordinary discovery. It wasn’t a vintage red or white – but the remains of prehistoric mammoths. The find has been called an “archaeological sensation” by researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the OeAW. The winemaker, Andreas...
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has said the country’s constitution must be changed after he was barred from running for parliament on Monday. In his first interview since the ban, Mr Zuma told the BBC the Constitutional Court was wrong to decide he was unfit to run, based on his 2021 conviction for contempt...
A model has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2003, the latest in a string of allegations against the rapper and businessman. Crystal McKinney said in a lawsuit that Mr Combs invited her to his New York studio and plied her with alcohol and marijuana until she became intoxicated. He...