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Shaimaa Khalil Tokyo correspondent Getty Images Shiori has become the face of the country’s MeToo movement When Japanese journalist Shiori Ito decided to speak up about her rape allegations, she knew she was standing in the face of a society that preferred silence. “I’m scared…but all I want to do…

Reuters Volodymyr Zelensky stopped off at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Thursday en route to the US US President Donald Trump has said he has a “lot of respect” for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, on the eve of their talks at the White House. Asked by the BBC if he…

Getty Images More than 50 people, mostly Muslims, died in the 2020 religious clashes in Delhi Five years after deadly religious riots engulfed India’s capital Delhi, there is no legal closure in sight for the people involved. A BBC Hindi analysis has found that more than 80% of the cases…

Katy Watson Pacific correspondent Getty Images The remote and resource-rich Cook Islands has antagonised old allies over a deal with China The Cook Islands may be small but the ambitions of its leader are mighty and his signing of a range of deals with China without consulting the public or…

EPA About 1,200 people were killed when Hamas attacked Israeli communities, military bases and a music festival on 7 October 2023 Israel’s military has published its first official account of the mistakes that led to its failures during Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack, which triggered the Gaza war. The report…

Firefly Aerospace, a Texas-based private aerospace company, has released video from its Blue Ghost spacecraft orbiting the Moon. Since entering the Moon’s orbit on 13 February, the lunar lander has been preparing for its landing. It will attempt to descent to the lunar surface on 2 March. If it succeeds,…

Pop star Katy Perry will blast off into space as part of an upcoming all-women flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepherd rocket. The Firework singer will be joined by Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sanchez, CBS presenter Gayle King, former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights activist…

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish separatist PKK, has called on his movement to lay down its arms and dissolve itself. His statement, read out in a letter by MPs from a pro-Kurdish party, was aimed at ending four decades of armed struggle in south-eastern Turkey in which…

Getty Images Donald Trump said he planned to hit goods from China with a new 10% tariff, the latest salvo in the US president’s steadily escalating trade fights. Imports from China already face taxes at the border of at least 10%, after a Trump tariff order that went into effect…

Nick Thorpe, Mircea Barbu & Paul Kirby In Bucharest & London EPA Andrew Tate, in the foreground, is a former kickboxer who has described himself a misogynist British-American influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate – who are facing trial in Romania on charges of rape, trafficking minors and money laundering –…