BBC news with Jerry Smit. Following days of rumors, Uzbekistan has announced the death of its president, Islam Karimov aged at 78. He was previously said to be critically ill. The funeral will take place on Saturday in his home city of Samarkand. A b...
BBC news with Jerry Smit. Hundreds of thousands of people in Venezuela have marched through the streets of the capital, Caracas, in rival demonstrations. One group was calling for the removal of president Nicolas Maduro, blaming him for Venezuela's d...
BBC news with Julie Candler. The Brazilian senators voted overwhelmingly to dismiss President Dilma Rousseff at the end of her impeachment trial. Senators found her guilty of illegally tampering with the budget two years ago to hide a growing deficit...
BBC news with Illy McKue. The United States has expressed its concern about a judgment from the European Commission ordering the technology giant, Apple, to pay up to 14.5 billion dollars in back taxes. The White House says such a unilateral approach...
BBC news with Marion Marshall. The suspended Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has urged senators to vote for democracy and against removing her from power at her impeachment trial in Brasilia.She told the senate that the country's future was at sta...
欧盟与美国自由贸易协定谈判失败 BBC news with Stewart Macintosh. The German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel says talks on a planned free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States have de facto failed. Mr. Gabriel...
BBC news with Marion Marshall. Syrian activists say at least 15 people have been killed in an aerial bombardment of a rebel-held district of Aleppo. The British based Syrian observatory for human rights said government aircraft dropped two barrel bom...
BBC news with David Austin. Civilians and rebel fighters have begun leaving a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus where they have lived under the government siege since 2012.Thousands will eventually move out as a part of deal reached between the g...
BBC news with Marian Marshall. Rescue teams in central Italy are racing against time, in their search for survivors of a devastating earthquake which leveled three towns and left at least 250 people dead. Hundreds of others are being injured. The sea...
BBC news with Nick Kelly. The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says at least 120 people have been killed in the earthquake that struck towns and villages in a mountainous region overnight. Rescue teams in central Italy are searching the rubbles fo...
BBC news with Eileen Macue. There has been an angry reaction from Russia over its rejection of its appeal against a ban on its athletes for state-sponsored doping at next month's Paralympics in Rio.The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said it w...
BBC news with Julie Candler. Turkish artillery units have fired on Islamic State targets and Kurdish militia units in Northern Syria. The bombardment from inside Turkey is targeting positions in the town of Jarablus and Manbij. Earlier Turkey said th...
BBC news with Julie Candler. Police in Brazil have carried out new raids of premises linked to the Olympic Council of Ireland over allegations about illegal sale tickets. Three people, whose passports have been confiscated, were asked to attend inter...
BBC news with Julie Candler. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have demonstrated in the capital Sana against recent airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition. The protesters are also showing support for new governing council declared by Shiite Houthi rebels w...
BBC news with Jonathan Izard. Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman for the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has resigned. There have been allegations that Mr.Manafort received secret payments for lobbying work on behalf of the party...
