bbc.comadded August 2026
BBC News (World)by Nadine Yousif25 Aug 2026
- Published Canada has announced counter-tariffs as high as 50% on a range of US goods in retaliation to the latest wave of levies on Canadian imports imposed by President Donald Trump last...
BBC News (World)by Bethany Bell25 Aug 2026
- Published German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has warned that those responsible for drone attacks and other hostile acts against Germany, including a recent case at Leipzig Airport, would "pay a...
BBC News (World)by Abayomi Bamidele Adisa25 Aug 2026
- Published Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has ordered a manhunt for armed kidnappers who launched deadly attacks on four villages in a remote part of Niger state last Friday.
BBC News (World)by James Gregory25 Aug 2026
- Published The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Turkey to immediately release Osman Kavala, an activist and philanthropist who has been detained in prison for almost a decade.
BBC News (World)by Joe Coughlan; Daniel Bush25 Aug 2026
- Published The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has travelled to Moscow for unannounced talks, the BBC's US news partner CBS has reported.
BBC News (World)by Ian Aikman25 Aug 2026
- Published China has vowed to protect its interests after the US announced plans to widen economic sanctions against Iran and its trading partners, which include Beijing.
BBC News (World)by Simon Atkinson25 Aug 2026
- Published Songs that are largely or wholly created by AI have been banned from Australia's music charts. From this week, all releases must be "substantially human made" to be eligible.
BBC News (World)by Harry Sekulich25 Aug 2026
- Published A French tourist has died in California's Death Valley after becoming stranded on the side of the road during 46.6C (116F) heat.
BBC News (World)by Tom Bateman; Helen Livingstone25 Aug 2026
- Published The US has removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism after 47 years, lifting what it said was the "final major barriers" for private sector investment in the country...
BBC News (World)by James FitzGerald24 Aug 2026
- Published Sean Grayson, the white US police officer convicted of murdering a black woman, Sonya Massey, during an incident at her home in 2024, has died in prison at age 32.
BBC News (World)by Amy Walker24 Aug 2026
- Published New Zealand is to introduce a bill seeking to ban under-16s from using social media. Under the latest proposals, platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, will have...
BBC News (World)by Ana Faguy23 Aug 2026
- Published Nearly two weeks after a damaging storm struck her town in Indiana, Terry Dubois is one of tens of thousands of people still without power.
BBC News (World)by Anbarasan Ethirajan23 Aug 2026
- Published More than 50 co-ordinated arson and incendiary attacks "aimed at creating unrest" have been carried out across Thailand's insurgency-hit south, the Thai military has said.
BBC News (World)by Jamie Whitehead; Paulin Kola22 Aug 2026
- Published The editor-in-chief of US military newspaper Stars and Stripes has told the BBC of his concern over censorship a day after being dismissed by the US Department of Defense (DoD) for...
BBC News (World)by Jaroslav Lukiv; Claire Keenan22 Aug 2026
- Published At least two people have been killed in Ukraine by Russian strikes while nine people remain missing a day after a double-tap attack on a shopping centre that killed 16.
BBC News (World)by Nadine Yousif; Toby Mann22 Aug 2026
- Published A fresh wave of US tariffs on a wide array of Canadian goods came into effect on Saturday after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks.
BBC News (World)by Roland Hughes22 Aug 2026
- Published In late July, the Duchess of Sussex's lifestyle range, called As ever, launched a "rich, vibrant" blackberry spread alongside a softly lit video of her picking the fruit.
BBC News (World)by Nadine Yousif; Grace Eliza Goodwin21 Aug 2026
- Published A man has been arrested after injuring two people in an early morning stabbing attack at a Sikh temple in Edmonton, Canada, police said.
BBC News (World)by Kali Hays21 Aug 2026
- Published TikTok has agreed to pay $400m (£293m) to the US to end a lawsuit alleging its platform violated children‘s privacy, marking one of the largest ever settlements over the issue.
BBC News (World)by Abel U21 Aug 2026
- Published When Chen Zhu heads to Hong Kong from mainland China every month, there's one place she always goes: Hunter Bookstore.
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