Getty Images Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has invited King Felipe VI of Spain to the Fifa World Cup, the Spanish royal palace has said, signalling a thawing of relations between the two nations.
Sheinbaum wrote that the sporting event - being hosted jointly by Mexico with the US and Canada - would provide "a timely opportunity to evoke the depth and unique character of the ties between Mexico and Spain
AFP via Getty Images The FBI is investigating Donald Trump's former top counter-terrorism official - who resigned from the role earlier this week - over alleged leaks, sources have told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.
Joe Kent is under investigation in connection with alleged leaks of classified information, with sources telling CBS that the probe began before his departure as US National Counterterrorism Center director.
Announcing his resignation on Tuesday, Kent
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Paul Kirby , Europe digital editor
The UK's two military bases on Cyprus are a "colonial consequence" on the island and talks on their status and future need to take place, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides has told the BBC.
"When the situation is over in the Middle East we are going to have an open and frank discussion with the British government," he said as
Getty Images Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is on her way to what she expects will be a "very difficult" meeting with US leader Donald Trump, days after his calls for allies to help secure the war-stricken Strait of Hormuz went largely unanswered.
Takaichi told parliament hours before her departure that she would "do everything to maximise [Japan's] national interest".
The three-day visit to
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Getty Images Kevin Spacey has agreed an out-of-court settlement with three men who had sued the actor after accusing him of sexual assault.
The civil cases had been due to go to trial at the High Court later this year, but those proceedings have now been frozen following the settlement.
The men alleged that Spacey assaulted them between 2000 and 2013.
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Getty Images At least three Palestinian women have been killed and eight more injured after missile debris hit a beauty salon in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says.
The PRCS said shrapnel hit the site in the town of Beit Awwa, near Hebron, in the southern West Bank.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said fragments reportedly landed on a metal caravan used as a salon as well as several other locations in
AFP via Getty Images The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have agreed to take "concrete steps" to ease tensions amid a stalled peace process, after talks hosted by the US in Washington.
Conflict in eastern DR Congo has continued despite the two countries signing a peace deal with US President Donald Trump last year.
The pledge to ease tensions comes after the US earlier this month sanctioned the Rwandan Defence Forces and four senior officials and accused Rwanda
Mayeni Jones Africa correspondent, Johannesburg & Hammanskraal
BBC In the Johannesburg suburb of Greenside, a large group of protesters of all ages and backgrounds are waving placards and banging empty plastic bottles together.
"We want water, we want water!" they chant.
Northern Johannesburg is known for its plush leafy suburbs. But after years of intermittent water shortages in South Africa, residents say they are fed up. Some have had no running water for over a
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Getty Images US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who was known for advocating for the rights of farm workers, has been accused of sexual abuse.
Dolores Huerta said in the 1960s, Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union (UFW) with her, once "manipulated and pressured" her into having sex, and on another occasion forced her.
It comes after the New York Times published an investigation on Wednesday that detailed allegations from Huerta and two other women, who said Chavez groomed