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Getty Images Syrian rebels declared victory in Hama on Thursday as the country’s military withdrew from a second major city Tens of thousands of people are fleeing Syria’s third-largest city Homs amid reports that rebels are closing in, just over a week since they launched their lightning offensive. The rebels seized Hama to the north…

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he will name a new prime minister “in the coming days”, after Michel Barnier resigned following a no-confidence vote in parliament. In a 10-minute address to the nation on Thursday, he rejected opposition pressure to stand down, vowing to stay in his post “fully, until the end of the…

AK Mishra Protesting residents raised slogans against the former owner Dr Ashok Bajaj, asking him to take the house back A Muslim couple in India have been hounded out of their newly-purchased home by their Hindu neighbours who said they would not allow them to live there because of their religion. Hindu residents of the…

Japanese actor Miho Nakayama was found dead in a bathtub in her Tokyo home on Friday. She was 54. Ms Nakayama found success as a singer in the 1980s and 90s – at the height of J-pop’s influence – but was best known for starring in the 1995 film Love Letter. An acquaintance discovered Ms…

Getty Images Yoon Suk Yeol has not spoken publicly since revoking martial law early on Wednesday South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered the arrest of his own ruling party’s leader Han Dong-hoon when he declared martial law on Tuesday night. The arrest list also included the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, Lee…

Police in New Zealand say they believe three men who went missing days ago on Aoraki Mt Cook – the country’s tallest mountain – are dead. Americans Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and an unnamed Canadian national were reported missing on Monday when they failed to meet their flight out from the mountain.…

Outgoing US President Joe Biden is considering pre-emptive pardons for prominent critics of his successor Donald Trump, multiple people familiar with the discussions have told CBS, the BBC’s US partner. That is in a bid to shield them from potential retribution after Trump – who has vowed to take revenge against those who have opposed…

Ros Atkins on… How the New York shooting unfolded Police in New York have released two photos of an unmasked individual wanted for questioning over the killing of a healthcare chief executive. UnitedHealthcare boss Brian Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in the back on Wednesday morning outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The attacker…

Ernest Ansah / BBC Unable to get a job as an accountant since graduating five years ago, Ghanaian Nathaniel Qainoo has been forced to swap his calculator for a spanner. The 29-year-old was busy repairing a taxi under the shade of a mango tree when the BBC met him at his home in the small…

Calin Georgescu, the fringe nationalist politician leading the presidential race in Romania, has told the BBC that he would end all support for Ukraine if elected. He is facing a second-round run-off in the elections on Sunday, where he will run against Elena Lasconi, a former TV presenter who is campaigning on a firmly pro-EU…