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(BBC NEWS) Residents were filmed fleeing a giant ash cloud from Mt Semeru. Witnesses described nearby villages covered in debris,...

(BBC NEWS) Brazil's Supreme Court has opened an inquiry into comments made by President Jair Bolsonaro wrongly claiming that Covid-19...

(BBC NEWS) Gambians are voting in their first election since the former President Yahya Jammeh left office and fled the...

(BBC NEWS) Several European countries are considering opening a joint diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, French President Emmanuel Macron has said....

(BBC NEWS) Countries around the world are racing to introduce travel bans and restrictions on southern African countries in an...

(BBC NEWS) A 24-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq has become the first victim of this week's mass drowning in...

(BBC NEWS) South Africans have responded sharply to the news that the UK, and a growing list of other countries,...

(BBC NEWS) There have been calls for calm in the US after a teenager who shot dead two people during...

(BBC NEWS) The WHO said an increase in mask wearing could immediately help The World Health Organization is "very worried"...

(BBC NEWS) Colombian President Iván Duque has condemned the actions of police cadets who dressed as Nazis as part of...