[ad_1] Two aircraft from the French display team Patrouille de France have crashed in rehearsals. The three pilots of the two Alpha Jets ejected and were "found alive and conscious", the French air force has announced. The two aircraft were taking part in rehearsals not far from the Air Base 113 in Saint-Dizier. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Barrel bombs believed to contain a highly flammable liquid have been used in airstrikes in South Sudan as escalating violence pushes the world's newest country to the brink of another civil war, the UN has said.The comments by Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN mission in South Sudan, follow recent fighting between the army and a rebel militia, known as the White Army, at a military base in the
[ad_1] The US has removed millions of dollars in bounties from senior members of the Haqqani militant network in Afghanistan, including one on its leader Sirajuddin Haqqani who is also the Taliban government's interior minister.It is a significant move given that the Haqqani network is accused of carrying out some of the most high-profile and deadly attacks in Afghanistan during the US-led war in the country, including attacks on the
[ad_1] A Sudanese war monitor has accused the military of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market in the country's western Darfur region.The Emergency Lawyers group - which documents abuses by both sides in Sudan's civil war that erupted in April 2023 - said the bombing of Tur'rah market was a "horrific massacre" that had also left hundreds injured. Videos posted on social media - some
[ad_1] Justices on Brazil's top court are debating whether former President Jair Bolsonaro should stand trial for allegedly attempting to stage a coup against the current President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.A five-member panel of the Supreme Court will weigh up evidence presented by the chief prosecutor, who accuses Bolsonaro of leading a plot to prevent his rival Lula from taking office after the latter won the 2022 election. Bolsonaro,
[ad_1] Four people, including the grandparents of Emile Soleil, have been arrested over the two-year-old's disappearance and death in the French Alps in July 2023.The two other people arrested on suspicion of voluntary homicide and concealment of a corpse are adult children of Emile's grandparents, prosecutors said in a statement.The grandparents' lawyer, Isabelle Colombani, told AFP on Tuesday morning that she had no comment, having "only just heard" about the
[ad_1] Watch: Key reactions to reports of a leaked group chat involving Trump officialsWashington DC is still digesting a serious security breach at the heart of the Trump administration. It's the story of how a journalist - the Atlantic magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg - was added to a Signal platform messaging group which apparently included Vice-President JD Vance and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, in addition to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.The
[ad_1] Mahmut HamsiciBBC Turkish'We're trying to bring democracy back': BBC reporter on the ground in IstanbulTurkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed opposition parties for provoking a "movement of violence" as protests in the country continued for a sixth night.Unrest began in Istanbul last Wednesday when the city's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - Erdogan's main political rival - was detained on corruption charges.Imamoglu said the allegations against him were politically motivated,
[ad_1] A court in Japan has ordered the disbandment of the controversial Unification Church, which came under scrutiny after the shock killing of former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.The alleged assassin had confessed that he held a grievance against Abe because of the ex-leader's ties with the church - he blamed the church for bankrupting his family.Japan's education and culture ministry sought the church's dissolution and accused it of
[ad_1] Nomsa Maseko and Natasha BootyBBC News, in Bujumbura and LondonBBCPresident Évariste Ndayishimiye made the comments in an exclusive interview with the BBCBurundi's president has told the BBC he has seen "credible intelligence" that Rwanda plans to attack his country.Évariste Ndayishimiye also said that Rwanda had tried to launch a coup a decade ago in Burundi, akin to "what it's doing in the Democratic Republic of Congo" now.Rwanda has already
