“But even as the Indian leader was basking in U.S. adulation on June 22, an officer in India’s intelligence service was relaying final instructions to a hired hit team to kill one of Modi’s most vocal critics in the United States”

washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…

🇸🇱 'He took my child, he said, to buy sweets and biscuits for her. It was a lie.'

Sierra Leone's president took the bold step of declaring a national emergency over rape and sexual violence in 2019.

Five years on, #BBCAfricaEye explores whether victims are getting justice.

“We've become addicted to explosions.” Stunning work by Bellingcat tracking the scale of home demolitions by a single IDF unit in Gaza. “Behind each ruined building, there is a decision & an action which has been carried out by a specific unit or person.” bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/2…

I spent a week as a Deliveroo rider. And learnt a lot.
First up, Deliveroo likes to claim you should earn at least the minimum wage of £11.44 while working. Me?
I worked for 22hrs 50mins, rode 105 miles, did 27 drop offs and earned £120.38.
That works out at £5.28 an hour🧵

UK forces may be deployed on the ground in Gaza to help deliver aid - by James Landale
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-689095…

Day 3🚦& happy Friyayyy💚

眠さの限界の42歳💤

Steve Lai will be back while I enjoy sleeping in🙏🏻

Happy weekend🥂

🔝 stories

🎬Weinstein👉🏻bbc.com/news/world-us-…
🇺🇸Trump in court👉🏻bbc.com/news/world-us-…
🇨🇳Blinken by Laura Bicker Tom Bateman Tessa Wong 黄晓恩👉🏻bbc.com/news/world-asi…

We’re made to make you think BBC.com/news (I’m glad they kept in the panting)

Excellent piece by Laura Bicker Tessa Wong 黄晓恩 and Tom Bateman bbc.com/news/world-asi…

On the plane with Blinken to China - a route-map reminder of flashpoints…

With Laura Bicker & Tessa Wong 黄晓恩

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

A century later in #Shanghai . #China
#Blinkenexpress

Watching what happens in Arizona today - where Democrats are trying once again to get enough votes to repeal the state’s 1864 near-total ban on abortion.

Will one more wavering republican defy the local leadership and vote with them to get this through?

Political drama here👇

Google Earth has updated its satellite imagery of many parts of Sudan. Looking over West Darfur city of El Geneina, I am shocked at the level of destruction. In some parts, whole areas have been destroyed and cleared. Location: 13.4469, 22.4151 (dates: April 2023 & March 2024)

“Darwin was just 19 when he was stabbed to death by a gang member wanting money. Ms Simbaña said the murder happened ‘in the midst of police officers, who were around and did not come to help’.” Ecuador’s choice some see as between bad or worse, by Ione Wells

“Google made $65.5 billion in ad revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 alone, while Facebook made $40.1 billion... Meanwhile…Thousands of local newspapers in the United States have closed, and tens of thousands of journalists have lost their jobs”
washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

'We believed in most cases…the perpetrators had not been properly held to account…[but] we were never able to get them through the political level”-says fmr boss of State Dept’s Political-Military Affairs bureau amid report US may cut arms to an IDF unit
bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

“The speaker’s torturous path to embracing Ukraine aid is the result of many factors: high-level intelligence briefings as a House leader, his faith, the counsel of three committee chairs named Mike, and a realization the GOP would never unite on Ukraine”
washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

“It’s becoming harder and harder to report out from Gaza, more and more dangerous”

More than 1000 US military personnel to depart Niger after government there severs security cooperation & demands US withdrawal. Statement from Friday is below: