Europe wildfires: France warns of worst crisis “since WW2” as new heatwave looms | BBC News
More than 360,000 people have been evacuated across France and Spain as unprecedented wildfires continue to spread. The French President Emmanuel Macron held crisis talks and said his country was facing its most difficult situation since the Second World War. Firefighters are still struggling to control the fires, as aContinue Reading
Is this why young people struggle to buy houses in Wales? | BBC News
What do affordable housing, arsonists, tourism, the Welsh language and council tax have in common? The answer… second homes. In some parts of Wales, second homes make up nearly a third of all properties. For local young people trying to buy their first home, that raises a big question –Continue Reading
Berlin terror attack suspect shot dead by police | BBC News
A man suspected of carrying out a terror rampage at a Berlin Pride event has been shot dead by police. German police say officers fired at Abdul Ballout after he rushed towards them with a knife. They say he died at the scene. Prosecutors say that Ballout drove a vanContinue Reading
India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns after weeks of ‘cockroach’ protests | BBC News
India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned after weeks of protests over exam paper leaks and testing irregularities. The demonstrations were spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – not a real party, but a satirical campaign turned national movement. What began as a student-led campaign against alleged exam paperContinue Reading
Iranians seek the truth about a deadly school strike | Global News Podcast
The BBC’s senior investigations correspondent Nawal Al-Maghafi, has just returned from the site of an Iranian school where more than 150 people – most of them children – were killed by a strike on the first day of the US-Israel war with Iran. She tells us that victims’ families areContinue Reading