Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing

Guy Delauney BBC Balkans correspondent in Ljubljana

Reuters People at a petrol station in Slovenia Reuters
Petrol stations will have to police the new government-imposed restrictions

Slovenia has become the first EU member state to implement fuel rationing to tackle disruptions caused by the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and its retaliation on their allies in the Gulf - most major players in world energy markets.

Many countries have been experiencing steep hikes in fuel prices.

In Slovenia, this has resulted in so-called "fuel tourism", as drivers from neighbouring countries, particularly Austria, take advantage of


'Like the plane got cut in half': Eyewitnesses describe chaos of LaGuardia crash

Sakshi Venkatraman LaGuardia Airport

AFP via Getty Images A plane with a sheared off nose on the runway. It is night. AFP via Getty Images

Eyewitnesses have described the moment Air Canada flight AC8646 crashed into a fire truck on the runway of New York's LaGuardia airport, killing two pilots and injuring dozens of others.

"We were literally like 100 metres away," says 23-year-old Leo Medina, who was onboard another plane on the tarmac when the crash happened. "It was like the plane got cut in half."

He told the


Could Iranian missiles reach London and Paris?

Jonathan Beale Defence correspondent

EPA A range of Iranian ballistic missiles the government displayed in August 2023 EPA
Before the US-Israeli attacks, Iranian officials had displayed their missiles in a show of defiance

Iranian missiles have tried to target the joint US-UK military base in Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.

Two missiles were launched last Friday - one failed and one was shot down, UK Defence Secretary John Healey says.

Diego Garcia is nearly 4,000km (2,500 miles) from Iran and the Iranian attempt has raised alarms about the range of the country'

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US' and Iran's options for ending war narrow the longer it goes on

Amir Azimi BBC News Persian

Reuters A man kneels down on the deck of aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford as a fighter plane is seen behind him (09/03/26) Reuters
Trump recently said he was considering "winding down" the war

For weeks, the US and Israel have insisted that Iran's military capacity has been severely degraded. US President Donald Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, have repeatedly claimed that sustained strikes have crippled Iran's command structure and weakened its ability to respond.

By their account, the conflict should already be moving towards an end.

Yet the opposite appears to be happening. The escalation continues faster, sharper, and

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Blast that injured two was 'terrorist attack', Ukrainian authorities say

National Police of Ukraine/Telegram The aftermath of the explosion in Bucha National Police of Ukraine/Telegram
The scene of the explosion in Bucha, 30km (18m) from Kyiv

Two police officers have been injured in an explosion that authorities say was a "terrorist act" in the town of Bucha near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

An explosion occurred on a residential street in the early hours of Monday. When police arrived at the site, a second blast took place, injuring two officers.

Police arrested a 21-year-old local resident who they say was

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'Stop, stop, stop': Listen to LaGuardia control tower audio during collision

An Air Canada plane carrying 72 passengers and four crew initially landed safely from Montreal on Sunday evening before colliding with a firefighting vehicle.

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43

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The owner of OnlyFans, a site known for its adult content that is credited with revolutionising the online porn industry, has died at the age of 43.

Leonid Radvinsky, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in Chicago, had purchased the company in 2018 from its two UK-based founders.

The site's popularity surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, landing him on Forbes' annual list of billionaires just three years


Nigerian police arrest 15 after viral videos of alleged sexual assault at festival

Karina Igonikon , BBC Pidgin, Port Harcourt and

Chris Ewokor , Abuja

EPA A woman holds a placard saying Stop Rape at a protest in Lagos in 2020. The women are all wearing face masks EPA
Women's rights activists want more to be done to tackle gender-based violence in Nigeria (file photo)

Police in Nigeria say 15 people have been arrested following allegations of sexual assault at a community festival in the southern Delta state.

Videos circulated online showing young men openly attacking women who were on their own. The clips sparked widespread anger, leading to the hashtag #StopRapingWomen to trend on social media, and renewed calls for accountability over

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What we know about the LaGuardia Airport crash

AFP via Getty Images Air Canada flight AC8646 with its nose upturned and wrecked. Emergency services surround it. The tarmac is wet, it is early morning. AFP via Getty Images

Two pilots have died after a passenger plane collided with a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Photos from the scene show the plane tilting backwards with its cockpit almost sheared off. The fire truck is on its side, surrounded by debris, wreckage and warped metal.

Authorities said 41 people had been taken to hospital, with 31 later discharged but others suffering from serious injuries.

At around 23:40 local time on Sunday, shortly after Air Canada flight AC8


France's former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin dies at 88

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Former French Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin has died at the age of 88.

In addition to his achievements as head of government from the late 1990s, he will be remembered as a two-time presidential candidate who in 2002 suffered a stunning first-round humiliation from the far-right's Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Before that Jospin had served five years as prime minister under conservative president Jacques Chirac.

Chirac defeated him in the 1995 presidential race