Trump says ICE agents will assist airport security as DHS shutdown continues

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Travellers have faced hours-long airport security lines since the partial government shutdown

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be sent to airports to help with increasingly long lines at security checkpoints, the Trump administration has said.

US President Donald Trump posted on social media that ICE agents will go to airports on Monday, while Border Czar Tom Homan told CNN that his team was working out the details of the plan.

The union that represents Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers criticised the move, saying staff

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Guthrie family renews appeal for help to bring missing mother home

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US TV anchor Savannah Guthrie and her mother Nancy, who has been missing for seven weeks

US television presenter Savannah Guthrie and her family have appealed to the public to continue to help search for their missing mother, who police believe was abducted seven weeks ago.

"We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our mom's case," the Guthrie family said in a new statement shared with NBC Tucson affiliate KVOA for a special report on the case.

Authorities have been searching for Guthrie's


'A direct hit' - BBC visits Israeli town after Iranian strike

The BBC's Sebastian Usher reports from Dimona in southern Israel, which was hit by an Iranian missile.

Qatari and Turkish citizens die in military helicopter crash

BBC A map showing Qatar and its capital Doha, as well as Iran and the Gulf BBC

A military helicopter has crashed in Qatar, killing all seven people on board, authorities in the Gulf state say.

They say all the bodies were found after the helicopter went down due to a "technical malfunction" in Qatar's territorial waters on Sunday.

Four Qatari military personnel, one Turkish serviceman and two technicians from a Turkish defence company were on board, Qatar and Turkey say.

The cause of the crash that happened during a training exercise is now being investigated.

Turkey has a military base in Qatar under


Sudan army denies carrying out hospital attack that killed 64 during Eid

WHO Ruins of walls and a ceiling at el-Daein Teaching Hospital. A blue and white sign with the word reading 'Accidents' in Arabic is seen hanging in tatters. WHO
The WHO says the hospital is no longer able to function, depriving thousands of people in the region of vital medical care

Sudan's army has denied it carried out a deadly attack on a major hospital on Friday night in a city in the west of the country held by its rivals, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said 64 people - including 13 children, two nurses and a doctor - had died in the strike on el-

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BBC in Cuba as island plunged into darkness

More than 10 million people are enduring power cuts after Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed again.

National blackout hits Cuba for second time in a week

Will Grant , BBC's Mexico, Central America and Cuba correspondent and

Harry Sekulich

Reuters People gather on a street during a blackout as Cuba's national electric grid collapsed, according to the country's grid operator, 16 Mar 2026 Reuters
Power cuts leave millions of homes and businesses without power across Cuba

More than 10 million people have had power cut to their homes and businesses across Cuba after the country's national electrical grid collapsed for the second time in a week.

Cuba's energy ministry said "a total disconnection of the National Electrical System has occurred", in a statement posted on social media. "Protocols for restoration are already beginning to be implemented


Robert Mueller, ex-FBI chief who led Trump-Russia investigation, dies at 81

Kayla Epstein and

Anthony Zurcher , North America correspondent

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Robert Mueller, the former special counsel whose investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US election defined much of Donald Trump's first term in office, has died. He was 81.

The cause was not immediately known. CBS News, the BBC US partner, confirmed his death.

"With deep sadness, we are sharing the news that Bob passed away" on Friday night, the family said to the AP in a statement.


'Peace is a gradual thing': How land, cattle and identity fuel a deadly Nigerian conflict

AFP via Getty Images A man in a black sweat shirt holds his head in grief after losing his relatives in an attack by Fulani herders near Jos. Behind him is greenery and hills in the distance. Archive shot. AFP via Getty Images
Countless families have been devastated by the violence that continues as the security forces have no presence in much of Plateau state

"Around midnight, I heard the first gunshots," recalls Joseph Ize Zino, a youth leader in central Nigeria.

He was at home when gunmen attacked the village of Zike inhabited by the Christian Irigwe ethnic group.

"All of us in the house, we ran. That was how we survived."

As he hid in the fields, the young man listened as the attackers

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AI videos of sexualised black women removed from TikTok after BBC investigation

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Riya Ulan (left) / Instagram (right) Composite image: On the left it shows a still from video of Riya Ulan. Her left arm is raised touching her head, she is looking straight at the camera with a grey curtain behind her. She has a light / olive complexion and dark hair, and is wearing a loose-fitting top with a wide neck. On the right is an AI generated image of a woman with artificially created, exceptionally dark skin in the same position, with the same clothing and backdrop. The BBC has marked the right hand image Riya Ulan (left) / Instagram (right)
Riya Ulan (left) noticed that her video had been manipulated to show an AI-generated digital persona (right)

TikTok has banned 20 accounts after the BBC highlighted the use of AI-generated black female influencers to drive users to sites promoting sexually explicit content.

They are part of a growing trend of accounts on Instagram and TikTok that has been criticised as racist, exploitative and misleading because of racial tropes and language used.

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