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Wedaeli Chibelushi & Mayeni Jones BBC News, London & Johannesburg Executive Mayor Andrè Truter/ Facebook Joshlin Smith has not been found more than a year after she went missing The mother of a South African girl, who disappeared aged six more than a year ago, has been convicted of kidnapping…

Police in Hong Kong have arrested the father and brother of US-based pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok for allegedly helping with her finances, according to media reports. It is the first time the relatives of an “absconder” have been charged under the territory’s security law, Reuters news agency said. The authorities…

Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution. “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based conception of the people that predominates within the party is not compatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in…

Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi Auqib Javeed Srinagar, Kashmir UGC Two shawl sellers were assaulted in Mussoorie because of their Kashmiri identity Shabir Ahmad Dar, a resident of Indian-administered Kashmir, has been selling pashmina shawls for more than 20 years. The intricately embroidered featherweight scarves are a favourite with his…

Activists who were planning to sail an aid ship to Gaza say it was struck by drones in international waters off the coast of Malta – appearing to accuse Israel of being behind the attack. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said its ship The Conscience was targeted at 00:23 local time…

Lily Jamali North America Technology Correspondent Natalie Sherman Business reporter Getty Images Apple says it is shifting production of most iPhones and other devices to be sold in the US away from China, which has been the focus of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The majority of the iPhones bound for…

Israel says its fighter jets bombed an area next to the presidential palace in Syria’s capital, Damascus, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to protect the Druze religious minority following days of deadly sectarian violence. Netanyahu said the strike was “clear message to the Syrian regime” that Israel would “not…

Ten people have been killed and more than 30 injured after a bus hit several vehicles at a toll gate on one of the busiest highways in northern Philippines, authorities say. The bus driver, who has been detained, said he had fallen asleep at the wheel, police told AFP, adding…

Hundreds of cars were left with flat tyres after a truck travelling along one of Australia’s busiest highways spilled 750kg (1,653lb) of sharp metal shards on the road. The truck travelled for 30km (18 miles) before the scrap metal spillage was detected, authorities said. The incident forced city-bound lanes to…

Kevin Jackson BBC Scotland News Reporting fromBergen, Norway The Scalloway Museum Some of the ‘Shetland Gang’ crew pictured at the pier in Scalloway in 1944 It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the ‘Shetland Bus’ was a real undercover operation carried out to help…