April 7, 2022
One arrest made after six shot dead
Police have arrested one suspect in connection with a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, California's capital, on Sunday, that left six dead. Dandre Martin, 26, has been charged with assault and illegal firearm possession, police said on Monday.…
April 1, 2022
Dreadful evidence on road outside of Kyiv points to war crime
Footage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world. Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to see the grim…
April 1, 2022
French intelligence chief, Gen Viduad, fired for inadequate predictions
The head of French military intelligence, Gen Eric Vidaud, is losing his job after failing to predict Russia's war in Ukraine, reports say. Seven months after he took on the role, one report said he was blamed for "inadequate briefings" and a "lack…
March 27, 2022
Ukraine war is our war, proclaimed by 3 Brit ex-soldiers
The road to war for CJ, Elliott and Kieran ran through Facebook, a cheap flight to Poland, and a cold night sleeping outside a railway station. We meet the former British soldiers in Ukraine just outside a school, a couple of kilometres from the…
March 27, 2022
All 132 passengers and crew dead, officials confirm
Chinese officials have confirmed that all 132 passengers and crew died when flight MU5735 crashed on Monday in southern China. The China Eastern flight was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it nose-dived and crashed in a heavily-forested area in…
March 27, 2022
Five wounded after explosions hit western city of Lviv
Several explosions hit the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine, regional officials said. The governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytskyi, said five people had been injured, and that rocket fire had hit a fuel storage facility and a factory. Lviv has…
March 22, 2022
Ukrainian refugee numbers reach 3.4 million
More than 3.4 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded, according to the latest figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Monday's update showed that, of those refugees, more than 2 million have crossed the border…
March 22, 2022
18 year old suspected of murders in Sweden
Two teachers in their 50s have died after a violent attack at a secondary school in the southern Swedish city of Malmö, police say. An 18-year-old student at the school has been arrested on suspicion of murder.Local media report that the victims…
March 21, 2022
Russia trying to starve Mariupol into surrender
A Ukrainian MP has accused Russia of trying to starve the besieged port city of Mariupol into surrendering. Dmytro Gurin was speaking soon after Ukraine rejected a Russian deadline demanding Mariupol's defenders lay down their arms in exchange for…
March 21, 2022
Chinese plane carrying 132 people crashes Guangxi hills
A Chinese passenger plane with 132 people on board has crashed in a forested hillside in southern China. The China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 was flying from Kunming to Guangzhou when it plunged to earth in Guangxi province and caught fire.The…