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A former police officer has been spared a jail sentence over his fatal decision to Taser a 95-year-old woman with dementia symptoms at an Australia aged care home. Kristian White said he had used the weapon to prevent a “violent confrontation” after finding Clare Nowland disoriented and holding a small…

Watch: Ros Atkins on… Trump’s plan for Greenland Anthony Zurcher and Adrienne Murray BBC News, Washington DC and Copenhagen A high-powered delegation of US officials will spend Friday at a remote military base on Greenland in what is being viewed as the latest manifestation of American designs on the sparsely…

Will Grant Mexico, Cuba and Central America correspondent Reporting fromSan Salvador Courtesy of Gertrudis Pineda Gertrudis Pineda insists her son Oscar is not a criminal The lack of tangible information about her son Oscar – one of 238 Venezuelans deported by the US to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador…

Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor EPA Speaking in the Russian Arctic on Thursday, Putin said competition in the region was intensifying In Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic circle, President Vladimir Putin vowed to “strengthen Russia’s global leadership in the Arctic”, while warning that “geopolitical competition in the region”…

Hannah Ritchie BBC News, Sydney Getty Images It is compulsory for Australians to vote on election day – and many will queue for a customary sausage in bread On 3 May Australians will head to the polls to vote in their first federal election since 2022. The results will determine…

Australia will head to the polls for a federal election on 3 May. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, whose Labor Party will be defending a small majority, announced the date after visiting the Governor General in the capital, Canberra, on Friday. Opinion polls predict a slim margin between the country’s two…

Jessica Murphy & Bernd Debusmann BBC News Reporting fromToronto and Washington DC Canada: Retaliatory trade action to have “maximum impact” on US Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that Canada’s old relationship with the United States, “based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is…

Cachella Smith and Lana Lam BBC News David McArthur MBE/Reuters Sindbad submarine vessels seen off the coast of Hurghada in August 2022. Six people have died after a tourist submarine sank in Egypt’s Red Sea. Local officials say 39 others were rescued after the vessel sank at around 10:00 local…

KCNA North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been pictured inspecting new suicide drones, which state media say have been equipped with artificial intelligence (AI). The undated images released by the secretive state’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) show Kim flanked by officials on a runway inspecting a drone….

Severe wildfires have been spreading rapidly in South Korea. Ancient temples are among the buildings that have been destroyed and thousands of people have been evacuated. BBC Verify’s Nick Beake has been looking at how – and why – the fires spread so quickly and considering the impact they’re having….