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Image caption, Fire services and rescue teams have been deployed around Hamburg’s airport By Jaroslav Lukiv BBC News Police in the German city of Hamburg are dealing with a suspected hostage situation at the airport after an armed man drove through a security barrier and onto the tarmac. There are at least two people in the car including a child, police ...

Image caption, Amina Noor is the second person to be successfully prosecuted under the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 By Jeremy Britton BBC News A woman has been found guilty of taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM). Amina Noor, 39, is the first person to be convicted of assisting a non-UK person to perform FGM. ...

Image caption, Dr Olufemi Olaleye did not show any remorse during the trial, the judge said By Wycliffe Muia BBC News The head of a top Nigerian cancer clinic has been sentenced to life in prison for raping his wife’s teenage niece. Dr Olufemi Olaleye sexually assaulted the girl for more than a year until his wife found out and informed ...

Image caption, Terri Harris (bottom left) and her children John Bennett (top left) and Lacey Bennett (bottom right) were found dead along with Lacey’s friend Connie Gent (top right) By Dan Martin & Oli Constable BBC News A series of “very stark” failures by the probation service contributed to the murders of a mother and three children, a coroner has ruled. ...

Haiti has fallen into lawlessness since the murder of Jovenel Moise in 2021 By Graeme Baker BBC News Haitian police have arrested a former justice ministry official suspected of ordering the assassination of President Jovenel Moise.  Joseph Felix Badio was caught as he was driving out of a supermarket car park in the capital, Port-au-Prince.  Mr Moise was murdered in ...

By Julius Addae ODURO Ex TV set to provide live commentary on the match week 3 fixture between Ho based Division one league side Home Stars FC and Oda Kotoku Royals FC on Sunday October 22,2023. The new entrant will host the 8th placed Kotoku Royals at the Ho Sports Stadium, on 15:00GMT(3:00PM). Meanwhile Hohoe United FC will make a ...

By Gloria Aradi BBC News High levels of poverty and unemployment have fuelled money-making rituals in Nigeria Five men have been jailed for 12 years each in Nigeria after they were convicted of exhuming a human skull. They had planned to take it to a traditional doctor who said it was needed for rituals that would make them rich. The ...

Police say the situation is now under control By Laurence Peter BBC News The French prime minister has put the country on its highest state of counter-terrorism alert after an assailant fatally stabbed a teacher and seriously wounded two others. Witnesses say the knifeman shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”, during the attack at a school in Arras, northern ...

Image caption, Health authorities are encouraging parents to get their children immunised By Gloria Aradi BBC News More than 600 people, mostly children, have died of diphtheria in Nigeria since the current outbreak began in December 2022, officials say. With 14,000 suspected cases, this outbreak is far worse than the last one in 2011 when 98 cases were reported. Kano state, ...

By Derek Cai & Mahfouz Zubaide BBC News Another earthquake has hit western Afghanistan just days after two large quakes in the same region killed more than 1,000 people.  The new 6.3 magnitude quake struck at around 05:10 local time (00:40 GMT) on Wednesday, 28km (17 miles) north of the city of Herat. More than 100 were injured and sent ...